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Politics

John Edwards talk at Gnomedex

I am not surprised that most of the conversation were democrats standing up and asking what they can do to beat the republicans. There were a few good questions on net neutrality, but I am sure that the republicans in room felt pretty uncomfortable. But the session was in some people's in the room opinion almost content free.

Net Neutrality is dead!

Shutter up the Internet and Pull the plug for 72 hours and then let people voice their opinion of Net Neutrality. You can bet this is a question I am gonna ask Senator Edwards and Gnomedex. Time to fire some people in congress. [Chris Pirillo]

Call to Action from IPaction.org

This just in and your help is needed in stopping another piece of legislation that will affect yoru fair use rights. This is a direct quote from the folks at IPaction.org "Tomorrow the Senate Judiciary committee continues its markup of Senator Ted Stevens omnibus communications bill. Is a lengthy and complicated piece of legislation, but hidden deep within are the

Net Neutrality: This is serious, No it’s a National Emergency

If you don't know who Tim Berners-Lee then I encourage you to click on the link, and read his Wikipedia entry so I will say he is justified in making the following statement. "When I invented the Web, I didn't have to ask anyone's permission. Now, hundreds of millions of people are using it freely. I am worried that that

Senator John Edwards to Keynote Gnomedex

I am not sure what I think about this, I have had 24 hours to let it sink in, and received a reply to a message that I sent to Chris about it. The only Politics I talk about on this Blog, is how it seems that a great number of senators, and representatives have not a clue what they

House of Representatives sell out to the Telecommunication Industry

I am today quite sickened by the events in the House of Representatives in them selling their souls to the telecommunication industry. It is highly obvious that those largely Republican representatives that voted for this ignored the will of the people as usual, and gave the industry everything they wanted. Americans were sold a bill of goods today and even