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Tech at Night: Jim DeMint does good, Texas races California to the bottom,...
House pressure on the FCC continues, with Friday’s hearings on FCC process reform, including testimony from all four active FCC Commissioners (Republican Commissioner Meredith Baker has quit the FCC)....
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Tech at Night: Illegal Amazon Taxes fail, DeMint modernizing cable, thorny...
Monday night, as promised, we still have some catch up work to do. So let’s start with those Amazon Taxes, those Internet sales taxes of dubious Constitutionality. Colorado’s got tossed in federal...
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Tech at Night: CISPA is not SOPA until proven otherwise, Cybersecurity and...
I’m seeing some real panicked shouting online about CISPA, a new bill that some are calling “the new SOPA.” It’s absurd. The bill may not be perfect. It could have flaws. But the argument being...
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Tech at Night: Jim DeMint vs favored broadcasters, CISPA vs Lieberman-Collins
What’s the ideal situation for the cable television marketplace? A free market. Cable providers should be able to negotiate, or not, with broadcasters and copyright holders to purchase streams to...
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Tech at Night: Barack Obama covering for Lieberman-Collins power grab via...
In an example of lucky timing, the GSA scandal proved why Darrell Issa’s DATA act was needed. Transparency in government allows for oversight. So the bill passed the House by voice vote. I first...
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Tech at Night: CISPA passes the House, FCC passes campaign regulations,...
So, the Internet died this week or something. CISPA was amended much, as I gather mostly tightening up some alleged privacy concerns. Then it passed the House. I don’t know if it’ll become law, but...
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Tech at Night: LightSquared debates, FCC subsidizing and raising prices,...
So, LightSquared. It’s a funny turn this whole thing has taken. Way back at the start, when I was excited for LightSquared’s potential as a 4G competitor, I was told that they were the next Solyndra....
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Tech at Night: Q&A with with Steve Scalise on Retransmission Consent; Snyder...
I know many RedState readers are big fans of Jim DeMint, so in my coverage of the Retransmission Consent debate, I’ve focused on him. However he’s not the whole story. This Congress, due to the TEA...
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Tech at Night: Retransmission Consent, Spectrum, Reid making threats on...
When Jim DeMint and Steve Scalise first started talking about reforming the regulated relationship between broadcasters and cable companies, oh the fits that were thrown. Even a certain conservative...
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Tech at Night: Cybersecurity compromise rightfully stalling, Mike Enzi right...
Please read: A personal appeal to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. You mad, bro? With that business out of the way, back to Tech at Night. I for one am glad that Jon Kyl and Sheldon Whitehouse are...
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Tech at Night: My support for the so-called Marketplace Fairness Act
So, the Marketplace Fairness Act. Ben Domenech and Francis Cianfrocca recently went off on it on Coffee and Markets, which is a great series to listen to. Having an opportunity to block out time to...
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Tech at Night: Lieberman-Collins is dangerously wrong, Republican Governors...
Right now the top issues are both getting lots of attention in the Senate. One is the cybersecurity bill. It’s been difficult for me to find out much about what’s going on with it, and it turns out...
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Tech at Night: The Grand Return
So I’ve been gone a while. Sorry about that. After Summer Games Done Quick and the Redstate Gathering, I was supposed to be back in action. But a case of the shingles took me down fast. I was a...
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Tech at Night: Suuuure Snowden wasn’t the source. FBI rolling up an Anonymous...
Enough about Manning for right now. Back to Snowden. Edward Snowden and the Glenns Greenwald say Snowden wasn’t their source. Of course they’re saying that. Why wouldn’t they say it, whether it’s true...
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Tech at Night: The news catches up after Thanksgiving. $180k fine for...
Two reminders I usually make here. Use good passwords, and make sure not to run software you don’t trust. Keep your software updated. If you use it, consider switching away from the leading target...
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Tech at Night: Retransmission Consent is like Net Neutrality? Also, something...
Here at RedState this week, Fred Campbell compared Retransmission Consent with Net Neutrality. Some may think the Steve Scalise bill (on an idea backed by Jim DeMint when he was in the Senate) doesn’t...
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Tech at Night, Part 2: Traitors, Thieves, Terrorists, and Trolls
As I mentioned Friday night, I had so much to cover I was breaking up Tech at Night into two parts. This is part two. Remember when I called out Wikileaks for abandoning their ally Edward Snowden in...
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Tech at Night: Insurance companies may attack innovation. A group even more...
Remember during the height of the Edward Snowden media frenzy, how his defenders would dutifully parrot every word RT said about him? Here’s your great Snowden defender now. RT and Snowden are the...
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Tech at Night: Why ACU and other STELA opponents are wrong. SXSW goes hard left.
ACU and other normally small-government types have bafflingly come out against the satellite TV bill STELA, and Steve Scalise’s efforts to enact Retransmission Consent reform, a cable idea first...
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Tech at Night: Marsha Blackburn dings Obama on transparency. Just how secure...
Funny how Bitcoin ATM installations get all that hype, but their later flops and removals get much less attention. They’ve got to be so desperate for good news in the Bitcoin community. Imagine being...
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