Tag: congress

TED.com – Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad idea)
Clay Shirky delivers a clear and cogent history and explanation of PIPA/SOPA, walking through through both the intent and what the ramifications of the bill and how it changes the entire legal system under which websites operate.
January 19, 2012
Electronic Frontier Foundation – The Internet at its Best
EFF highlights some of the largest sites that participated in the SOPA/PIPA blackout.
January 19, 2012
ArsTechnica – Wikipedia to join reddit in SOPA blackout Wednesday
I’ll also be posting a message to protest and inform people about PIPA and SOPA, though I imagine Wikipedia will have a much larger influence.
January 16, 2012
Ars Technica – Three Senators condemn OnStar for tracking former customers
Glad I don’t own a vehicle with OnStar installed. It’s more than a little sleazy to collect and sell information from former customers.
September 27, 2011
Huffington Post – U.S. House Ignores Internet Reality, Again
If it wasn’t so frustrating you have to almost admire Republicans ability to ignore their own experts or examples when legislating.
April 10, 2011
NYTimes.com – “Serious”
Serious is making stuff up apparently.
April 9, 2011
NYTimes.com – Ludicrous and Cruel
I love that term voodoo economics, but in this case it seems to fit so well when you try to understand some of the ridiculous assumptions made.
April 7, 2011
Sunlight Foundation – House Violates 72 Hour Pledge Again
De-funding a valuable public resource and usurping democracy, all emergencies and all in a days work for Republicans.
April 2, 2011
Bad Astronomy – Next up for Congress: repeal the law of gravity
I’ve been trying thing of something to put here but can’t.
March 24, 2011
Ars Technica – “No lobbying,” says senator before taking movie biz lobby job
I won’t lobby, but I’ll take the top job of a lobbying firm.
March 3, 2011