Mulit-Media News and Net Neutrality Too

I think Verizon's efforts to fight Net Neutrality speak louder and louder that the company's interest and profits come ahead of consumer and citizen's rights and interest or desired open net services all internet consumers want and have paid to use.

Do use important services as an excuse to spy on everyone to catch cyber thieves. Some things that are that important should not be on the web and it is as straight forward and true as that..

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“The question in every case is, simply, whether the statutory text forecloses the agency’s assertion of authority, or not,” he wrote.

The precedent applied by Justice Scalia in the Arlington case was Chevron U.S.A. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, in which the court held that courts must defer to an agency’s interpretation of its statutory jurisdiction unless it exceeds the specific bounds set by Congress."

We need to do more business with those that support net neutralitylike T-Mobile and less with those like Verizon and ATT that intend to gobble the internet control like the troll in "Billy Goats Gruff" and swallow the profits.

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The withdrawal is consistent with T-Mobile's position before the merger, a spokeswoman for the carrier said.

This is a must watch ..it's just the film teaser... Make no mistake with the industry insider heading up the FCC their will be a rush for industry to deal the final big take over of the internet  and they will do it with and through the government and make it officailly and legally all their's while legally tying our hands as well as shutting down our expression and ability to participate. We know what they deiver ..turn on your TV if you have not noticed and take a look..

The ISPs, cable companies and wireless companies tell us trust them and they will self regulate abide by Net Neutrality and play fair. This and many other events lately prove that a lie.

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Internet activists in Germany demand a free and open Internet today, protesting in front of the annual general meeting of major German ISP Deutsche Telekom. They criticize the companies plans to slow down internet connections after a certain amount of traffic has been used. What is worse: the company is violating the principle of net neutrality – internet services can buy their way out of those limits.

Google is adding a tempting photo tool to their already massive data collection.

Realizing how much data we are leaving online is so important. The fact that this is starting at birth these days makes this awareness even more criitcal for young people.

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Half a decade after Denmark passed a law mandating that telecommunication companies retain and store their customers' personal data for up to one year, local advocacy groups and the telecom industry are pushing for immediate changes to the legislation.

The practice of keeping records of private citizens' Internet use is an unjustifiable invasion of privacy, they say.

The police, meanwhile, have concluded that requiring telecoms to store Internet subscriber data has not helped them track criminals, which was the the ostensible purpose of the practice. But the Danish government still wants to postpone an evaluation of the law for another two years.

Maybe Texas should really just be it's own country and have it's own dictator.

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Sherman, however, thinks the law could be used broadly to bring any sort of online evidence under the magnifying glass of prosecutors, causing a widespread fishing exhibition that will allow law enforcement to essentially request any sort of electronic communication of any business that operates online.

“The electronic communications at risk include all online communication - emails, Facebook messages, tweets and messages on private list servers,” wrote Sherman. “Additionally, the bar is set extremely low for police officers to prove that they may find something important in a person's online communications.”

Indeed, SB 1052 only asks that probable cause “must be supported by the oath or affirmation of the authorized peace officer.”

“That is almost not a standard at all,” insisted Sherman. “With a bar so low and a reach so broad, such legislation will lead to widespread abuse and exposure of private information, and enable politically motivated ‘investigations.’ This is government overreach and Texans of all political ideologies should oppose it. If this bill becomes law, any investigation that can be brought into the Texas jurisdiction would have all the tools of CISPA, in which any private online activity can be easily seized by the government, at its disposal. That is terrible news not only for Texans but for all Americans.”

A liitle net news event from Down Under.

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The federal government has been accused of sneaking mandatory web filtering through the back door after one of its agencies inadvertently blocked 1200 websites using a little-known law.

Technology news website Delimiter this week revealed the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) last month used a telco law to ask major internet service providers (ISPs) to block a website it believed was defrauding Australians.

Telstra, Optus and Vodafone, who are known to have been asked to block it, complied.

I hate to see him leave and more so now that we see who replaces him. Wheeler, who is a lobbist for telcom and cable industries has no business in that job that should be for the public interest. He has already chosen to give his loyalties to those that pay the most so why would he be working as a public employee now?

Is anyone else tired of paying high ranking public servants and electing officials that ought to be on ATT, Monsanto, and GEs payrolls rather than the public payroll where they are doing far more harm than good for consumers and citizens. I for one recent the industries and companies that do this even more than the individuals that sale their souls.  

I try not do business with those companies. They know that is the reaction when people don't like the way they are treated and that is why they work so hard to leave no more choices. That is when we need to drop their right to have a business license and force them to sell off what they own to those who intend to act as a better business that serves those who's money it takes as paymments for goods and services.

Not much more to say than what the title does on this.What do you think?