Archive for July, 2007
Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Verizon, Redmoon Each Independently Decide to Be Evil, Find Sneaky Ways to Display Ads
Here's a pair of head-shakers for you. Verizon is starting to test a service where mis-typed domain names will instead present search results, much like Verisign's SiteFinder service that caused angry mobs to all but go to the company's offices with torches and pitchforks. The service works at the DNS level meaning that Verizon customers [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Jeers, News by Jesse
Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Governor’s Group Want Internet Tax Ban to Stay Temporary
The National Association of Governors warned Congress that making the current ban on taxing Internet access permanent is a Bad Thing(TM). Their contention is that keeping it temporary gives the government a nice big stick to carry around in case any ISPs start acting up. I can certainly see that taking Teddy Roosevelt's advice to [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Legislation, News by Jesse
Monday, July 2nd, 2007
FTC Excuses Itself from the Net Neutrality Debate
In a move that sounded a lot like a collective "not my job, not my problem," the FTC decided to downplay network neutrality concerns and get itself onto solid, er, neutral ground. In a recently released report, the FTC chose to take no position on network neutrality and downplayed it as not really being all [...]
