Category Archives: Authority Issues

A simple request

When asked by a business to take down comments critical of that business, what is a newspaper to do?
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Rumors of the Web’s death may be exaggerated

Wired's headline says the Web is dead, but that's a bit of an exaggeration.
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What if Apple ruled the world?

Apple and Adobe have been arguing lately over open standards and the future of the Web. Steve Jobs and Newsvine founder Mike Davidson each have some interesting things to say about the conflict.
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Court: FCC does not have the authority to regulate net neutrality

The FCC does not have the author­ity to enforce net neu­tral­ity, a fed­eral appeals court ruled today. The case cen­tered on the FCC’s 2008 deci­sion to ban Comcast from throt­tling file-sharing ser­vices for video and TV shows, Reuters and the Associated Press report. Before the court deci­sion, Amit Schejter, pro­fes­sor of telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions pol­icy at Penn State, [...]
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New Project

Bozeman, where I live, sub­mit­ted its appli­ca­tion for the Google Fiber for Communities project in the hopes of using the giga­bit fiber to bring more high-tech busi­nesses to the city. Already, the city is rife with high-tech indus­try, the most famous com­pany being Right Now Technologies. We also have TechRanch and a num­ber of Montana [...]
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