New Orleans OK, let’s get this straight. Compared to other developed countries around the world in the United States we already have slower and more expensive internet, and few workable programs to assure equality of access. Under a Democratic President though we should be able to expect some progress in this area though, right? Instead …
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New FCC Rules and Stopping Comcast
Edinburgh Some things are certain today. It will rain in Scotland, and Comcast will continue to quickly exercise monopoly power over the internet, almost making a mockery of the recently proposed “new” rules by the FCC to curb exactly these kinds of abuses. Comcast and Netflix came to an agreement for Netflix to pay them …
Pushing Back the Banks in the Wake of Occupy
Orleans Given all of the niggling around the impact of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its impact, it is worth raising some footnotes a little higher on the tally sheet where the results are important, but perhaps unnoticed. Take these recent developments into account. Small example, but telling is that JP Morgan Chase, perhaps …