Tag: Politics

Colbert Super PAC: $1 Million Raised, Stephen Regains Control
Last night, Stephen Colbert hijacked the end of The Daily Show and demanded that Jon Stewart return control of his Super PAC money. In 2011, Colbert created the...
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FBI Accessed MegaUpload’s Skype Conversations
It seems that electronic surveillance may have played a big role in the government’s evidence. Among the documents filed by the U.S. attorney’s office as part of the proceedings ag...
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Google Attorney’s Play Both Sides
HTC and Samsung Electronics are subject to a patent infringment suit filed by Pepper Hamilton on behalf of Digitude Innovations. HTC and Samsung are partner's of Google's, specific...
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Obama Campaign Using Square For Donations
President Obama's 2012 Presidential campaign is reportedly using Square to accept donations. Politico...
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The Entertainment Industry Is Actually Booming, So… Why SOPA?
That headline is a bit reductive as it should end "Why SOPA, PIPA, Bill C-11, OPEN, et al.?" but that's what the actual article is for, right? One of the main driving points in...
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Palin Hacker Disputes Conviction
David Kernell was convicted of a misdomeanor crime after he hacked into Sarah Palin's email back in 2008 during the presidential election. After serving almost eleven months in jai...
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Cell Phone Privacy Bill Would Prevent Another Carrier IQ Scandal
Representative Edward Markey (D-MA) has released a draft of a bill that would prevent scandals like the one that surrounded the...
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Just Say “NO to ACTA”
By now, especially in light of the SOPA/PIPA fallout, you've probably heard about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, which is also lovingly known as ACTA. The international...
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Is OPEN Better than SOPA?
During the initial SOPA hearings, the mockery that they were, Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, one of the loudest opponents to the Stop Online Piracy Act, suggested an alternative met...
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Photos Reveal Hypocritical Cop
Arizona police sergeant Pat Shearer is drawing some attention due to his suspicious and outwardly stupid Facebook posts. This "officer of the law" apparently thinks it is okay to p...
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SOPA Was Only the Beginning: ACTA Gets International Push Back
As we touched on earlier, as members of the European Union sign ACTA into something of an existence -- it still requires ratification from the European Union parliament -- various...
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Politics and the Internet: The Relationship Is Growing
In 2008, politics changed in a big way. This change was driven by the impact that the Internet and social media had on the Presidential election. Since that time, this same influen...
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Aneesh Chopra, First U.S. Chief Technology Officer, Is Stepping Down
In 2009, President Obama tapped Virginia's Secretary of Technology to fill a brand new job - the nation's first Chief Technology Officer. Aneesh Chopra's goal was to help bring th...
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China: An Efficient Manufacturer Of Pollution
In the 1970's we started outsourcing production from the United Staes to overseas facilities that could meet production demands faster and cheaper. After over forty years of outsou...
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