House Passed CISPA, Online Privacy Up In Smoke | Addicting Info

Call, write, or otherwise motivate your Senator to blast this piece of crap into bits (or is that bytes?) :)

STOP THE MADNESS! OR CENSORED SITES LIKE THIS IS ALL YOU'LL SEE!

Congress is close to destroying the Internet as we know it. Stop them now!

Act Now: Tell Software Companies to Remove Anti-LGBT Web Filters From Schools » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union

I say let them block LGBT stuff as long they also block Tennessee stuff :)

Act Now: Tell Software Companies to Remove Anti-LGBT Web Filters From Schools » Blog of Rights: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union

Everyone Gets Cheaper Broadband, Except U.S.

That's cuz the government wants to protect us from the evils of competition. Or is it the megalithic telecoms they want to protection. Anyway, it's a protection racket, one way or the other.

Go Waxman!

Rep Henry Waxman (one of the few really good guys, even if he looks like a psychotic accountant) has announced his support for net neutrality. Big plus!

Another Reson Not to Grant Telecom Immunity

You can never grant any privilege to these assholes, ever. They are all greedy bastards, interested only in their own bonuses, the customer, the employees, the nation, the world be damned.

Brodsky Applauds Edwards

Art Brodsky, writing at TPM's 'cafe', applauds Edwards letter to the FCC from yesterday. It isn't often that a politician, let alone a candidate, does something that is Right and Good and Important. Personally, I'm glad to see it noted and rewarded.

Edwards Calls On FCC for More Open Net

Edwards writes a letter to the FCC.....

We Rule the Internet!

Speaking of WaPo, they have a great article today on how the Dems are much farther ahead of the Repugs in mastery and use of the internet. It's not earth-shattering news, but it's interesting to see it all laid out.

"What was once seen as a liability for Democrats and progressives in the past -- they couldn't get 20 people to agree to the same thing, they could never finish anything, they couldn't stay on message -- is now an asset," Leyden said. "All this talking and discussing and fighting energizes everyone, involves everyone, and gets people totally into it."

If conservatives have mastered talk radio -- with Limbaugh as the undisputed king of the AM dial -- those on the left hope to achieve the same dominance on the Internet. Daily Kos, a sounding board for opposition to Bush and the Iraq war, among other topics, leads most political blogs in Web traffic and notoriety. Last year, the site spawned Yearly Kos, the first political blogger convention. Its founder, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, refers to himself as the site's "mayor," with everyone else "doing their own thing, managing their own projects, while I keep the plumbing running."

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"Sure, conservatives can point to the Dan Rather controversy and the Swift boat episode as a measure of their success online. But that's it," Moulitsas said. "Progressives can claim to an actual movement that raises a lot of money, that helps put politicians in office. . . . Progressives can claim to actually having communities online, where an average Joe can have a voice, and not just a radio personality who happens to write a blog, too."

Moulitsas was referring to Hugh Hewitt, a blogger and host of "The Hugh Hewitt Show." His blog is on TownHall, one of the most popular conservative sites. The site is owned by Salem Communications.

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"But look at the short history of online politics," Glover said. "For Republicans, the Internet is where bad things happen. Take [former U.S. senator] George Allen and his 'macaca' moment. . . . You can kind of understand why Republicans have this almost instinctive fear of the Internet, where the mob rules."

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"Sometimes I wonder if it will take losing the White House for the Republicans to take the Internet more seriously," Turk said.

Trippi Joins Edwards

The 'mastermind' behind Howard Dean's surprisingly successful campaign in '04 has joined the Edwards campaign. Joe Trippi should be an important acquisition by Edwards as Trippi was the architect of Dean's online success. Good move!