June 30th, 2006 
Richard Bennett I did a Yahoo search for the movie Outfoxed for article below, and here’s what I got:
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1. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism Open this result in new window
Documentary examining Fox News and its parent corporation, Rupert Murdoch’s FOX Network, examining what the [...]
June 30th, 2006 Richard Bennett Here’s a great opinion piece on Internet regulation from City Journal by Brian C. Anderson:
Net neutrality would swiftly become a bureaucratic nightmare. “Neutrality regulation might as well have been labeled the ‘Telecom Lawyer & Lobbyist Full Employment Act of 2006’ because it would generate mountains of regulation and litigation in coming years,” says Theirer. “You [...]
June 29th, 2006 Richard Bennett CNet’s Daniel Terdiman tried to get inside Google’s new complex in Oregon, and was turned away. See what Ron Wyden’s defending.
UPDATE: One application that’s going to run in this hideaway is Google Checkout. See Donna Bogatin for discussion of Google’s impact on business relationships on the Web. She asks the right question:
Is Google a benevolent [...]
June 28th, 2006 Richard Bennett I’m very happy to learn that the idiotic Snowe-Dorgan amendment to the telecom bill was defeated in committee. It was a close vote, but all Republicans except Snowe voted against and all Democrats voted with the Maine moron. There will undoubtedly be an attempt to re-introduce it as a floor amendment when the bill moves [...]
June 28th, 2006 Richard Bennett The Internet regulation debate has unfortunately descended into Oedipal drama where the bad old phone companies are cast in the part of King Laius and the hero is played by brash young startups such as Google and Moveon.org. Our heroes are unfortunately blind to the larger context that surrounds their quest for power.
The Internet’s in [...]
June 27th, 2006 Richard Bennett Mike at Techdirt asks the question of the day: Why Is There So Little Honesty In The Net Neutrality Debate?
Looking the array of interests assembled under the neutrality banner, it’s not surprising:
A. The end-to-end cargo cult, a group of people who understand virtually nothing about how the Internet is put together, but who nevertheless make [...]
June 26th, 2006 Richard Bennett I’d like to draw your attention to a very disturbing video. Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World-Wide Web of Computer Internetting, has apparently been captured by terrorists. I say this because the Net Neutrality video clip (proprietary format only, Linux need not apply) on his MIT blog looks like one of those “captured soldier [...]
June 26th, 2006 Richard Bennett Cory Doctorow has been one the few honest left-wing voices on Internet regulation, arguing that that willy-nilly regulation isn’t a reasonable approach to the alleged problem that Save the Internet and other Google sycophants aim to solve. He’s bent over backwards in recent article to appease them, burying the lede in the middle of the [...]
June 26th, 2006 Richard Bennett Netflix founder Reed Hastings wants to move his company’s video distribution system off the postal system and onto the Internet, where it would become a major consumer of bandwidth. He’s worried about traffic-sensitive pricing, so he invokes the all-singing, all-dancing Wonder Principle, “net neutrality”, on the opinion pages of America’s most credulous newspaper:
Today, forces are [...]
June 25th, 2006 Richard Bennett Got an opinion about Google’s “net neutrality” regulations? It could be worth money to you, as it has been to Legal Fiction’s Publius:
To avoid any future Armando situations, I should disclose that I am currently working on behalf of pro-net neutrality clients. At the time I wrote about net neutrality, I wasn’t. But now I [...]
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