Off you go… into the purple yonder!

Via the wired blog: Net Neutrality Advocates In Charge Of Obama Team Review of FCC.
The two people appointed are Susan Crawford and Kevin Werbach.
They ‘get it’ - they understand that the US is a broadband backwater, that the current telecom policies only work to fatten the bank accounts of the big telecom players, and that [...]

The above screenshot was taken at a colocation facility.
… unfortunately this kind of speed is totally unaffordable at home, at least in this country. Thanks so much, dear politicians and FCC - your deregulation policies and over $200 billion worth of subsidies to the big telcos have brought us… ‘broadband’ that is slow and [...]

I was pretty excited that Deval Patrick won the elections here in MA. It was high time to get rid of our current narrow-minded governor.
However, Mr. Patrick has made his first bad decision. He’s basically put a wolf in charge of guarding the sheep. The sheep, in this case, is MA’s progression towards the Open [...]

The Google blog has a short entry today about Vint Cerf’s excellent testimony [PDF] before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. He was speaking in defense of the crucial network neutrality principle. Go Vint!
In other news, the Post reports on how the greedy management at Verizon thinks that they are entitled to [...]

So, thanks to the Conservatives and Socialists in the European Parliament (the two biggest fractions), a European Directive has been passed for mandatory data retention. It needs to be implemented in national law within 2 years in all of the member states.
This means that information about the e-mails you send and receive will be kept, [...]