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Net neutrality

see? this is why net neutrality is vital

Sat, Feb 08, 2014
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Verizon is throttling Netflix. Quelle surprise.

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you think the Net is overly corporatized now? just wait…

Wed, Jan 15, 2014
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Net neutrality in the U.S. just got a kick in the teeth from a federal court…

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Anna Nicole Smith, destroyer of nations; Sam Worthington apologizes for ‘Clash of the Titans’; Net neutrality threatened (again); more: leftover links

Mon, Dec 27, 2010
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Plus, Apple versus Wikileaks, the end of TV as we know it, and more…

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Will Smith as Robin Hood?; a Wolverine with depth?; ‘Narnia’ upsets Jesus-y types; more: leftover links

Sun, Dec 12, 2010
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Plus: a whole ton of stuff about Wikileaks and Julian Assange…

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Fox News has no sense of humor; where the heck is the original ‘Tron’?; entire ‘Walking Dead’ writing staff fired; more: leftover links

Sun, Dec 05, 2010
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Plus: political activism lands Mark Ruffalo on terror watchlist; jail time for modifying Xbox 360s; BP will make a movie about Gulf oil spill; more…

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question of the day: How soon will physical DVDs disappear from general usage?

Wed, Dec 01, 2010
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We’ll always watch movies, I suspect — at least until whatever apocalypse we’re in for hits and the electricity goes out — but I don’t think we’ll actually be watching them on plastic DVDs for very much longer. I’m beginning to see a time for myself in the very near future when I may never have to buy another DVD…

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Rooney Mara is the American girl with the dragon tattoo; Net neutrality’s swan song; is George Lucas an asshole?; more: leftover links

Sun, Aug 22, 2010
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Every week my browser gets cluttered up with tabs for stuff that I stumble across and figure I might be able to use as a Question of the Day or a WTF Thought for the Day or grist for some other post…

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yes, Google *is* being evil

Tue, Aug 10, 2010
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Google and Verizon want to kill the ‘public Internet’…

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“amusing ourselves to death”: why many won’t care about the loss of Net neutrality… but why we must

Thu, Aug 05, 2010
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We as a society are in danger of drowing under not a flow of information but a flow of entertainment…

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wtf: Google is being evil

Thu, Aug 05, 2010
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Good-bye Net neutrality. Hello entrenched corporate dominance of the Internet…

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