Here are a few links from the last week or so that I never quite got the chance to post. Court Affirms Ban on Aiding Groups Tied to Terror – NY Times A 5-4 decision “upheld a federal law that makes it a crime to provide “material support” to foreign terrorist organizations, even if the …
Sites like FourSquare are pretty cool. The basic idea is that by “checking in” at a location friends will know to find you there, and businesses will get to know their best customers. But one concern is that it doesn’t take a sophisticated hacker to track another person’s location. Earlier this year, a trio of …
AT&T: drop net neutrality or U-verse gets it (Ars Technica) AT&T has told the FCC that if it reclassifies broadband providers as common carriers, it will “have to re-evaluate whether we put shovels in the ground.” Interestingly enough, AT&T has already admitted that they are investing less in the development of this badly needed high …
Journalism scholar Dan Gillmor argues “Let’s subsidize open broadband, not journalists” at Salon.com. He begins by arguing that the Post Office Act of 1792′s enabling of cheap publication (and distribution?) of news papers “was an outright subsidy, for a social purpose.” The result? “It was central to the rise of the nation as a society …
John is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin - Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He studies the social impact of media technology law and policy, with a special emphasis on copyright. He also is an instructional technology consultant for DoIT-Academic Technology.
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