by Nick Bessette | Sep 17, 2015 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
Hobbyists and drone industry giants were relieved last week when California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed legislation that would have severely limited drone operation in the state. California Senate Bill 142, which passed both houses of the legislature in late August,...
by Magnus Gan | Sep 9, 2015 | Commentary |
Today, Sep 9 2015, is an historic day. Microsoft, buoyed by the briefs of some 94 amici curiae including Apple and Amazon, the ACLU and NPR, CNN and Fox News, is before a three-judge panel (Judges Lynch, Carney, and Bolden) at the Federal Court of Appeals for the...
by Daniel Quarfoot | Jun 7, 2015 | Commentary |
As the scope of Google’s dispute with European competition regulators widens by the month, consumers in very different positions with very different preferences have been drawn into the debate over what is and what isn’t good for them. Another section of them was...
by Meera Bhaskar | May 25, 2015 | Commentary |
After years of struggling with what the federal government’s role should be in regulating the “free internet,” the FCC voted to enforce net neutrality rules under Title II of the Communications Act. Under the new Rules, major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) like...
by Alyssa Walker | Apr 17, 2015 | Commentary |
Twitter has recently announced that it will be rolling out a new “quality filter” that is designed to “remove all Tweets from your notification timeline that contain threats, offensive or abusive language, duplicate content, or are sent from suspicious accounts.” The...
by Eve Nguyen | Apr 15, 2015 | Commentary |
On February 26, 2015, proponents of the open Internet celebrated the Federal Communications Commission’s vote to reclassify broadband Internet as a public utility and approve new net neutrality rules. The goal of the FCC’s vote is to protect Net neutrality by...
