Tag: fcc
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defcon 9/24: f the cc, felonies, netflix & spacejunk
fcc to propose ‘net neutrality’ rules*fcc position may spell the end of unlimited internet*should the president have the power to turn off the internet?*presidential internet kill switch may still be alive*feds move to control the internet*cybersecurity: one step forward*cybersecurity vs cyberwarfare*obama cyberczar to regulate the information highway*will the US president have the authority to shut…
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8/20 newspurge: leary, cho, stone, disney, s&m, surveillance
history/mystery: timothy leary & the cia*scotus orders review of death row inmate troy davis’s case*fromme-peltier: inequality of mercy*cho’s missing mental records released* media/memes: fcc ‘diversity officer’ targets talk radio*the fairness doctrine is dead, long live the fairness doctrine*’indictments are coming’ in jackson case* oliver stone revealing ‘secret history of america’*your tax dollar$ at work for…
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low-power fm radio gains a small victory over fcc
from arstechnica: Supporters of low-power FM (LPFM) radio won a victory on Friday when a federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit to stop the Federal Communications Commissions from protecting LPFM stations from full power station signal interference. “This is terrific news for the low power radio community,” declared Sakura Saunders of the Prometheus Radio Project,…
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police state int’l: skype, shop, cyber katrina & operation arcadia
eu agency supports wiretapping skype conversationsfrom eu observer: EU’s judicial cooperation agency Eurojust will take the lead in finding ways to help police and prosecutors across Europe to wiretap computer-to-computer phone conversations enabled by programs such as Skype. “We will sit together with all member states to see how this can be done technically and…
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did u go digital last nite? u should open yr converter box
hundreds of tv stations went digital overnightfrom afp: More than 600 US television stations will transmit digitally only on Wednesday after cutting off their analog broadcast signal overnight as part of a nationwide switch. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said a total of 421 television stations planned to end their analog broadcasts at midnight Tuesday…
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police state int’l: bioterror, bigbro, behavioral screening & more
a slew of warnings on nuclear, chemical & biological terrorism prompt worries of fearmongering (or fears of worrymongering)from usnews: After a series of dire new warnings about possible terrorist threats—capped by a government commission’s report that terrorists are likely to stage a biological or nuclear attack somewhere in the world during the next five years—some…
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scarborough drops f-bomb on live television
from raw replay: MSNBC broadcasted uncensored profanity today on Morning Joe. Joe Scarborough was talking about Rahm Emanuel when he used the F-word. Scarborough said, “The nature of this campaign has really been the steady nature of Barack Obama, the steady nature of David Axelrod, the not-so-steady nature of Robert Gibbs – only because he…
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free nationwide wi-fi network to censor political websites
as usual being done under the anti-porn pretext…’won’t somebody please think of the children!’from paul joseph watson: Both individual proposals to roll out free nationwide wi-fi Internet access across the United States contain language indicating that political websites deemed “offensive” will be filtered out and blocked. The implementation of a universal wi-fi network covering the…
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media & military: still in love after all these years
from fact to fiction: giving writers an inside look at the fbifrom fbi.gov: Imagine you’re a writer working on a film or television script about the FBI, but you really know very little about us beyond what you’ve seen in other movies or TV shows. What do you do? For decades, you’ve been picking up…
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feds say comcast violates internet rules
from ap: The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday he will recommend that the nation’s largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet. The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast Corp. that the company had blocked Internet traffic among users of…
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Comcast Cameras to Start Watching You?
If you have some tinfoil handy, now might be a good time to fashion a hat. At the Digital Living Room conference today, Gerard Kunkel, Comcast’s senior VP of user experience, told me the cable company is experimenting with different camera technologies built into devices so it can know who’s in your living room.
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snipes’ tax, keaton’s f*ck, ‘gangster’ libel & ap’s spears lust
lawyers face off at start of snipes tax fraud casefrom reuters: Defense attorneys clashed with the prosecution on Wednesday in Wesley Snipes’ tax fraud trial over whether the actor conspired with a longtime tax protester to defraud the government of millions of dollars. The star of the “Blade” movie series has been charged with six…
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fcc ok’s clear channel buyout
mitt romney & bain capital’s deal will make largest US radio broadcaster privatefrom ap: The Federal Communications Commission has signed off on the $19.5 billion deal that will take the nation’s largest radio broadcaster private, an agency official said Thursday. San Antonio-based Clear Channel Communications Inc. grew into a media giant and punching bag for…
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fcc plan would ease limits on media owners
from nytimes: The head of the Federal Communications Commission has circulated an ambitious plan to relax the decades-old media ownership rules, including repealing a rule that forbids a company to own both a newspaper and a television or radio station in the same city. Kevin J. Martin, chairman of the commission, wants to repeal the…