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Posts tagged "Internet"

The Atlantic Magazine's Lies: Of Breitbarts, Kochs, and RightOnLine

-By Warner Todd Huston Last weekend Americans For Prosperity once again held its RightOnLine conference, this year in beautiful downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Consequently, the Atlantic Magazine decided to do a report on what went on at RightOnLine. Unfortunately, the whole thing was filled with opinions stated as fact, misconstructions of facts, and outright lies. Sadly... Read more »

Arianna Huffington Sued for Being Blog Slavemaster

-By Warner Todd Huston I have to say my feelings swing wildly on this story. After all, I thrill to see these extremist, lefties slaving away for free while their boss makes millions upon millions of dollars off their backs. It’s just too funny. Yet… and yet, I too am a writer that does some... Read more »

House Votes to Curb FCC's Internet Power Grab

-By Warner Todd Huston We’ve been writing about Obama’s attempt to take over control of the Internet for some time, now, and there is at last a bit of good news on that front. The House of Representatives has passed Congressional Resolution, H.J. Res. 37 aimed at preventing the FCC’s wild, unconstitutional powergrab. Chief Deputy... Read more »
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Does Government Own Your Remotely Backed Up Computer Files, Your Emails, or Your Cell Phone GPS Info?

-By Warner Todd Huston Did you know that there are no laws to prevent government agencies from raiding your computer’s remotely hosted back up files, your third party emails, your cloud computing files, or your cell phone GPS location records? Well, there aren’t. As the law stands today government can go into your private computer... Read more »

From Nat'l Journal, One of the Most Biased Reports Seen in Some Time

-By Warner Todd Huston Once in a while a purported news report is so biased that it simply must be highlighted. Today’s award for the most biased report goes to National Journal for its left-slanted piece on Obama’s warning to the House GOP that he will veto any budget that cancels his FCC attempt to... Read more »

ILL Gov. Quinn Signs the Boot Out Internet Companies Law

-By Warner Todd Huston Illinois’ Democrat Governor Pat Quinn has signed the so-called Mainstreet Fairness Bill brought to him by the Illinois General Assembly. The bill forces all Internet companies to charge Illinois’ 6.25% sales tax whether they are based in the state or not. Quinn signed the bill in the last few days before... Read more »
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Left-Wing Group Takes Down Conservative Website -- Petty Little Children Affecting Nothing

-By Warner Todd Huston The left-wing Internet-based group calling itself “Anonymous” briefly took down the website of the conservative activist group Americans For Prosperity on Sunday, Feb. 27. Yet all the sturm und drang signifying… what? Me thinks that “Anonymous” is reading too many comic books. Amusingly, with the Denial of Service (DNS) attack “Anonymous”... Read more »

Rep. Blackburn Introduces Bill to Preempt FCC Internet Takeover

-By Warner Todd Huston Representative Marsha Blackburn (R, TN) has introduced a bill to preempt the December power grab by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski and she has made the bill bipartisan with the support of Democrat Dan Boren (Oklahoma). Blackburn’s bill would place all rules governing the Internet in the purview of Congress... Read more »

Headed to Washington D.C. ...

-By Warner Todd Huston I’ll be heading to Washington D.C. for the next few days. I am going to meet with some new congressmen and attend the Americans for Prosperity Internet Freedom Forum. I am hopeful that I’ll have some exciting posts on the next three day’s events and doings. … Stay tuned... Read more »
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FCC Chief Still Pushing Net Neutrality Without Congressional Action

-By Warner Todd Huston With the recent midterm election and the resulting GOP tidal wave that is about to inundate Congress, many people have wondered aloud if net neutrality was dead? Well if FCC Chief Julius Genachowski has his way, net neutrality will be implemented by fiat when he has his agency simply change rules... Read more »