The FCC's Crusade Against (Some) 'Indecency'

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Drudge--FCC's Powell Drawing Criticism
For Handling Of Telecom Industry Mess:
Arguing that telecom's woes are caused
by market forces outside the FCC's
control, he still pursues his original
agenda: Spurring broadband by
deregulating the Baby Bells and r

Drudge--FCC's Powell Drawing Criticism
For Handling Of Telecom Industry Mess:
Arguing that telecom's woes are caused
by market forces outside the FCC's
control, he still pursues his original
agenda: Spurring broadband by
deregulating the Baby Bells and r 07/21/2004 07:45 AM

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For 'Indecency' Watchdogs, Work Is a Day
Full of TV (Los Angeles Times)

For 'Indecency' Watchdogs, Work Is a Day
Full of TV (Los Angeles Times) 05/10/2004 04:39 AM
Los Angeles Times - ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Across the Potomac from Capitol Hill, on the second floor of a red brick-and-glass building, Caroline Eichenberg toils away in her homey cubicle, watching television. Monday through Friday, 7 1/2 hours a day, she keeps tabs on dramas, sitcoms and reality shows.

Little Steven's Big Crusade

Little Steven's Big Crusade 08/11/2004 01:37 PM
Steven Van Zandt's devotion to garage rock moves to a new level this weekend with a full-blown outdoor festival that is an unexpected highlight of the concert season.

FC Now: One Prof's Mid East Crusade

FC Now: One Prof's Mid East Crusade 09/09/2004 02:16 PM
What can a Wharton professor do in Bahrain, a tiny Persian Gulf monarchy? Peter Cappelli, a human resources guru at America's top management school, spearheaded...

Bush On Holy Crusade

Bush On Holy Crusade 06/06/2004 06:46 AM
Free Internet Press Jun 6 2004 10:13AM GMT

SCO Linux crusade dealt another blow

SCO Linux crusade dealt another blow 05/06/2004 10:03 AM

Lawmaker Revs Up Fair-Use Crusade

Lawmaker Revs Up Fair-Use Crusade 06/17/2005 06:35 PM
Rep. Rick Boucher is the rare legislator who defends file-sharing technology and thinks Congress is way too chummy with the entertainment industry. Boucher chats about content, law and technology in the digital age. Wired News interview by Katie Dean and Evan Hansen.

Bulgaria on Crusade against Internet
Piracy

Bulgaria on Crusade against Internet
Piracy 03/26/2005 02:36 AM
Sofia News Agency Mar 26 2005 5:20AM GMT

Software group joins EC's MS crusade

Software group joins EC's MS crusade 04/06/2005 04:46 AM
Big Blue, Nokia and Oracle weigh in behind EC case

A Mild Shanghai Lawyer and His
Accidental Crusade

A Mild Shanghai Lawyer and His
Accidental Crusade 09/18/2004 03:57 AM
The personal history of Guo Guoting is of the hard-knock variety commonplace in China, where one old rule endures: you can't fight City Hall.

Governor's Crusade Against Violent Video
Games Backfires

Governor's Crusade Against Violent Video
Games Backfires 12/22/2004 01:16 AM
Someone who prefers to remain anonymous writes "Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich had his crusade against violent and sexually explicit video games backfire when his office promoted the wrong Web site. The reported site also included links to pages on Amazon.com where the games the governor believes are offensive can be easily purchased. Kinda serves the Governor office right for not registering the .com when registering the .org." It's amazing how many times this sort of thing happens, where someone promotes a .com instead of a .org -- but this time, whoever bought the .com made sure that it was very much opposed to the plan.

The FCC's new "decency" chief

The FCC's new "decency" chief 03/17/2005 03:50 AM
Kevin Martin has close ties to the Bush White House, and an agenda to the right of Michael Powell's when it comes to "crude" programming.

US chastity crusade gets cool response
in secular Britain | csmonitor.com

US chastity crusade gets cool response
in secular Britain | csmonitor.com 06/24/2004 01:34 AM
they're LIBERAL BLASE about a US-funded effort to teach chastity to teens .. US chastity crusade gets cool response in secular Britain

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FCC's Powell: Don't Stifle VOIP

FCC's Powell: Don't Stifle VOIP 01/22/2004 03:32 PM
Emerging voice services over the internet won't be hampered by decades-old telephony rules.

FCC's Phone Rules Killed

FCC's Phone Rules Killed 03/06/2004 01:58 AM
The appeals court was probably right to force the FCC to do its job instead of passing the buck to the states. But the regional phone monopolies are totally unconvincing when they claim they're forced to give competitors access at unfair prices.

Stone: Linux is a crusade to free users
from oppression of Mordor and Sauron

Stone: Linux is a crusade to free users
from oppression of Mordor and Sauron 12/30/2003 01:21 AM
"Consulting Times" is an online magazine for the open source movement. Last week, it published a wide-ranging, typically irreverent interview with Chris Stone about Novell's recent moves to embrace open source.

FCC's Powell: It's Time to Throw Out Old
Regulations

FCC's Powell: It's Time to Throw Out Old
Regulations 07/14/2004 08:20 AM
Stopping in the heart of Silicon Valley, the FCC chairman says that current regulatory structures require the government to pick tech winners and losers.

FCC's Chairman Powell Starts Blog

FCC's Chairman Powell Starts Blog 07/11/2004 06:28 AM

FCC's Powell Reassures VOIP Community

FCC's Powell Reassures VOIP Community 06/23/2004 12:49 PM
At Supercomm, Powell reiterates his aversion to regulating developing telecom technologies like VOIP and acknowledges the federal government's responsibilities to manage spectrum.

FCC's Powell Riffs On DTV, Wireless,
Regulation

FCC's Powell Riffs On DTV, Wireless,
Regulation 01/10/2004 06:49 PM
In his CES 2004 keynote, FCC chairman Powell says it's unlikely the industry will meet its 2006 deadline to phase out analog TV.

This VoIP Pioneer Likes the FCC's Call

This VoIP Pioneer Likes the FCC's Call 02/19/2004 08:41 AM
Business Week Feb 19 2004 1:27PM GMT

FCC's cell phone spam ruling is bogus

FCC's cell phone spam ruling is bogus 08/05/2004 12:10 PM
Mike Masnick of TheFeature explains why this week's FCC ruling to "ban mobile spam" is a joke.

Most carriers provide some way of translating your phone number into an email address (often something along the lines of yourphonenumber@mail.yourcarrier.com), and this ruling only applies to those accounts... More to the point, however, the FCC made it very clear that this ruling means absolutely nothing when it comes to SMS spam.

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Calif. PUC To Withdraw Appeal Of FCC's
Vonage Order

Calif. PUC To Withdraw Appeal Of FCC's
Vonage Order 04/09/2005 07:46 PM
Information Week Apr 9 2005 10:31PM GMT

Volunteers Needed Urgently: Help ALA
Stop the FCC's Unlawful

Volunteers Needed Urgently: Help ALA
Stop the FCC's Unlawful 03/19/2005 02:53 AM

"Many of you already know about ALA's involvement (with other library associations) in challenging the FCC's 'Broadcast Flag' rule, a rule that will prevent librarians from being able to distribute or make available copies of broadcast television programs on the internet. It will also require you to purchase new electronic equipment that your library now uses to read or manipulate digital television signals (such as DVD players, recorders, TiVos, appropriately equipped computers, etc.) if that equipment is not Flag-compliant and your library does not already own a digital TV tuner.

We have filed an appeal to the federal Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, arguing that the FCC had no authority to promulgate the Broadcast Flag rule. The validity of the Broadcast Flag is now pending before that court.

This week, the court issued a very important order requiring us to submit evidence proving that we have 'standing' to sue the FCC. In order to provide the court with the evidence it needs--and to defeat the Broadcast Flag, which will sharply limit how libraries might be able to use broadcast materials, perhaps in ways we might not yet have even conceived--we need your help.

We are looking for members of our organization that might be willing to submit an affidavit explaining how the Broadcast Flag harms them. The process will be simple, straightforward, and not very time-consuming. The lawyers representing us in the case will assist in drafting the document; you'll just have to help provide the facts of what it will say.

If you can answer 'yes' to the following questions and would be willing to help us protect the First Amendment rights of librarians, and the rights we fought so hard to obtain in the TEACH Act, then please contact us as soon as possible:

1. Are you a current member of the American Library Association?
   -and-


2. Do you do any of the following?
   
   
   
   
   1. Archive television broadcasts for use by library patrons or other educational or research purposes?
   
   
   2. Use portions of television broadcasts in distance learning courses, or make broadcast portions available to teachers at your institution for this purpose?
   
   
   3. Make portions of television broadcasts available via your library's or your school's website for any educational, research, or
      commentary reasons?
   
   
   4. Record television broadcasts at your library for any other type of educational purpose?
   
   
   5. Have equipment that you use to archive, record, or manipulate copies of television broadcasts that you would replace if it no longer allowed you to archive, record, or manipulate the television broadcast in the same way you do today.
   
   
   
   

We look forward to hearing from you to help in this important issue!

For further information, go to http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/WOissues/copyrightb /broadcastflag/broadcastflag.htm."

If you can help or if you can help your local library get involved (they may not understand the issues and you could educate them), please act now! These are incredibly important issues, not just for libraries, but for the average person, who the courts are apparently leaving out of the equation entirely.

FCC's Powell Warns of Dangers in
Opposing DTV Plan

FCC's Powell Warns of Dangers in
Opposing DTV Plan 04/21/2004 06:17 AM
Boston Globe Apr 21 2004 10:27AM GMT

California Mounts Appeal of FCC's VOIP
Order

California Mounts Appeal of FCC's VOIP
Order 12/29/2004 06:11 PM
Vonage wins in Minnesota but faces a new challenge in California over an FCC ruling that exempts VOIP services from state regulation.

FCC's Powell Talks Common Sense, but
Where's Policy?

FCC's Powell Talks Common Sense, but
Where's Policy? 07/14/2004 03:30 PM
Michael Powell, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, talked a great game last night at the Al ways On conference at Stanford. He spoke out for an open architecture on the Net; indicated that the broadcast "indecency" rules are at best questionable from a Constitutional and logical framework, and generally impressed a crowd of technologists and tech constituents. I'll be happier when his views translate more firmly into FCC policies, and when Congress discovers that the distinction between media are growing far too hazy for the old rules. But this is genuine progress.

There's lots of blogging going on here. My older, wiser brother Steve is part of the ZDNet team that's posting here.

Oh, here's Powell's al leged blog, which has been drawing attention. I say "alleged" because while I think it's great that he's posting and listening -- two of the major components of blogging -- this neither looks nor feels like the real thing. Still, it's interesting, and the comments he's drawn from all kinds of folks are terrific.

Court Upholds FCC's 2007 Deadline For
Digital TV

Court Upholds FCC's 2007 Deadline For
Digital TV 10/28/2003 11:06 PM

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