The FCC and the Ring of Sauron
Free speech, suddenly This week, Jimmy Kimmel joined Stephen Colbert in Trotsky’s dustbin of late-night TV history, temporarily, at least. In his Monday evening monologue, Kimmel said: We hit some…
Free speech, suddenly This week, Jimmy Kimmel joined Stephen Colbert in Trotsky’s dustbin of late-night TV history, temporarily, at least. In his Monday evening monologue, Kimmel said: We hit some…
Attempting to address the lack of affordable childcare, an issue vexing the rest of Minnesota, Stevens County did something creative. According to the Star Tribune, last year: The county took…
Governor Walz needs to ban TikTok from state government devices. Governors across the country are taking steps to prevent TikTok from being used or downloaded on government-owned devices. TikTok poses…
Governors across the country are taking steps to prevent TikTok[JS1] from being used or downloaded on government-owned devices. TikTok poses a grave threat to the data on these devices and…
The government should keep COVID-era cuts to bureaucratic red tape.
How government regulation strains families and our economy.
The hysterics over the end of net neutrality from the likes of Sen. Klobuchar and Sen. Sanders two years ago were either cynical or ignorant. Either way, the US needs…
"This is the end of the internet as we know it" - Sen. Bernie Sanders, December 2017 "Hello, I'm still here" - The internet as we know it, December 2018
Generally, the rich got that way by catering to the demands of other people in a reasonably free market. They did not get rich by making people poor, but by…
Another multi-national corporation has fallen in line with Facebook, Twitter and Google, admonishing the Federal Communications Commission to drop plans to deregulate the internet. Apple has come out in favor…
Net neutrality may be one of the most intangible issues in the public arena. Hard to explain, hard to understand, hard to get too worked about about. Yet it’s often…
Funding for public broadcasting may be on the chopping block in Washington again. Maybe that explains why Minnesota Public Radio went before state lawmakers this week to ask for a…
On the off chance that you haven’t been following regulatory proceedings of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) in your spare time, there’s a growing controversy about something called ‘net neutrality.’…