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1984 called. It wants its surveillance back.

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 23 Jan 2015 11:00:50 +0000

So, the reaction to my story about my coworker’s 10-year-old going all Scooby Doo on the guy who had the nerve to steal his dad’s car was definitely mixed. Most people, of course, lauded the 10-year-old’s detective work. Others pointed out the

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Here we go again. Net neutrality is not Obamacare either.

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:00:21 +0000

To nobody’s particular surpise, yesterday president Barack Obama endorsed a form of net neutrality. And immediately, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) came out swinging against it, calling it, “Obamacare for the Internet.” Sen. Cruz appears to have either failed to read,

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Phil Kerpen, net neutrality, and socialism: A post-mortem

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 11:00:45 +0000

I learned the hard way a few weeks ago how net neutrality can be equated with socialism, an argument that puzzles people who work on computer networks for a living and see networking as a big flow of electrons. I

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Net neutrality is not Marxism

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:00:52 +0000

There is a fear campaign going on, suggesting that net neutrality is Marxism, or a plot for the government to take over the Internet. That’s name calling. There’s actually something very different going on. I’m not going to resort to

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Verizon sabotages Netflix

Dave Farquhar — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 11:00:17 +0000

I’m fed up with ISP duopolies. Why? Because Netflix paid Verizon the ransom it demanded, and yet Verizon hasn’t lived up to its side of the deal. To the contrary, evidence suggests Verizon is actively slowing down Netflix, because when

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Stand up for net neutrality

Dave Farquhar — Thu, 15 May 2014 11:00:49 +0000

Neocities has decided to do something about Net Neutrality–shunt the FCC into the slow lane, and post the code for doing it so the rest of us who run web sites can do it too. The original was written for

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Let’s talk about net neutrality

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 11:00:31 +0000

The battles are raging over net neutrality again. Conservatives generally are against it; liberals are generally for it. I think the battle is more over misunderstanding than anything else, so I want to try to clear up that misunderstanding. Net

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What you really need to know about net neutrality

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:36:17 +0000

I ran across a former classmate’s name in Google News recently, and when I flipped through his back catalog, I found the very best definition of net neutrality that I’ve seen. “Net neutrality is an arcane term that basically means

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What net neutrality means and why it\’s a good thing

Dave Farquhar — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:24:01 +0000

This week, John C. Dvorak makes a good argument in favor of net neutrality.

I'm going to take it from a different angle. I am a conservative. While I rarely vote a straight Republican ticket, I am registered as a Republican. Republicans generally are against net neutrality.

They are wrong. I will assume it's from a lack of understanding rather than bad intentions, but in this case, wrong is wrong. I'll explain why.

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Net neutrality has little to do with censorship but it\’s a good idea anyway

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:09:44 +0000

Pearl Jam came out in favor of net neutrality after AT&T censored a broadcast a performance they did in Chicago last Sunday. I guess AT&T didn't like Pearl Jam's anti-Bush message.

I don't know if Pearl Jam's sudden embrace of net neutrality is out of ignorance, or if it's retaliation. It doesn't really matter because it should help bring some more awareness to the issue.

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