12.28.07
Posted in Digital Divide at 2:21 pm by Travis
The State | 12/27/2007 | Broadband TV | Advances rattle cable companies
NFL and the cable boys are scrapping over NFL demands that cable operators run its channel on the cable operators’ basic tier and fork over 2 cents a day per subscriber for the privilege. This amounts to about $484,000 a day for Comcast, which instead offers the NFL Network on a premium tier, sparing the bulk of its subscribers the added cost.
If the NFL doesn’t like tiered services, why should we as consumers?
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12.17.07
Posted in social justice at 9:25 pm by Travis
Update: Harry Reid Bows to Pressure, Postpones Immunity | Electronic Frontier Foundation
How about this? If not giving the telcos immunity is unthinkable, what about a swap? The telcos get immunity if everyone gets immunity present and future for downloading music and movies?
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12.16.07
Posted in Digital Divide, security at 4:18 pm by Travis
URGENT: Telecom Immunity Showdown in the Senate!
From EFF:
“For more than five years, AT&T and other telephone companies broke the law and violated their customers’ privacy rights by sending billions of private domestic internet and telephone communications and records to the National Security Agency.
Now, after months of pressure from the Bush Administration, the full Senate is poised to grant retroactive immunity to these companies, which would effectively ensure that the full extent of their complicty will never be known.
The critical make-or-break vote is being held Monday– contact your Senator immediately and urge them to oppose telecom immunity!
Senate lawmakers must support Senator Chris Dodd and other heroes in allowing a full debate to proceed on Monday, and they must vote to strip telecom immunity from the bill.
The Senate should not let the telecoms off the hook. Granting immunity sets a dangerous precedent, sending the message that lawbreaking is acceptable and that the rights of Americans can be freely infringed by private companies in defiance of the law. And though the debate about the proper process of collecting foreign intelligence is complex, the issue of telecom immunity is not. The facts are simple enough: the telecoms broke the law, so the Senate should let Americans have their day in court.”
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