Gender Slurs: Why What Rush Limbaugh Said Is So Damning to Women
Rush Limbaugh's use of "slut" and "prostitute" was a textbook example of how horrifically damning gender slurs are, and why such forms of abuse deserve swift and serious action.
Rush Limbaugh's use of "slut" and "prostitute" was a textbook example of how horrifically damning gender slurs are, and why such forms of abuse deserve swift and serious action.
Bob Cesca | Posted 02.08.2012
There's a cold war of attrition being fought for the right to own the Internet, its content and its technology, and you're losing.
Sen. Mark Udall | Posted 01.08.2012
Net Neutrality guarantees a level playing field for all websites and Internet users. It ensures that everyone has a voice on the Internet and that no one can be silenced simply because they can't afford to pay. We need to keep it that way.
Posted 11.28.2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Public interest group Free Press filed a petition for review in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston on Wednesday, ch...
Posted 11.12.2011
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Controversial new Internet rules adopted late last year by the Federal Communications Commission will soon be published offic...
Everett Ehrlich | Posted 09.12.2011
I can't for the life of me understand why my fellow liberals want to impose a burden on the burgeoning broadband Internet.
TechCrunch | Posted 06.16.2011
Earlier this week, FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski took the stage at the Computer History Museum in San Jose, CA for a special Commonwealth Club event...
Rep. Chellie Pingree | Posted 06.11.2011
The Internet will be a different place if we rig the playing field. It's not right to give service providers the opportunity to stop you from making your own decisions -- you shouldn't have to eat pizza when you really want chicken.
AP | Posted 06.04.2011
WASHINGTON -- The White House is threatening a veto against a House Republican bill that would overturn new federal rules aimed at ensuring equitable ...
Art Brodsky | Posted 05.26.2011
There's only one thing that could stop this deal -- a strong dose of reality, and AT&T isn't counting on that particular intervention.
Art Brodsky | Posted 05.25.2011
High-speed Internet access is still a market with little competition, and there is nothing in the National Broadband Plan to address that crucial fact.
Timothy Karr | Posted 05.25.2011
Net Neutrality protects a level playing field on the Internet, where anyone can connect, create and innovate. Without Net Neutrality, Al Franken says, Internet service providers would be able to return as gatekeepers to all expression.
AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A Republican-controlled Congressional panel has voted to repeal new Federal Communications Commission rules that prohibit phone and...
AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday moved to block the Federal Communications Commission from enforcing new rules that prohibit broadband...
Marvin Ammori | Posted 05.25.2011
I'm giving Secretary Hillary Clinton the nod as the Obama Administration's improbable MVP. It appears the State Department has become a hub of technology activity.
AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Verizon Communications Inc. on Thursday filed a legal challenge to new federal regulations that prohibit broadband providers from i...
Morgan Reed | Posted 05.25.2011
During the extended holiday season, families gather around the modern day hearth to watch football. Everyone has a favorite team, or alma mater, to c...
The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 05.25.2011
Though the cable companies, advocacy groups and politicians have been battling fiercely over net neutrality, a new poll shows that most voters do not ...
Al Franken | Posted 05.25.2011
Just as the open internet movement was instrumental in improving regulations from the FCC's first draft proposal, we'll be critical in ensuring that the regulations voted on this week are enforced vigorously.
The Huffington Post | Catharine Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
On Tuesday, the FCC voted to adopt a framework that aims to preserve an "open Internet" by prohibiting Internet service providers from discriminating ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON - Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor Tuesday to warn that the Obama administration is on the verge of nationalizing the Internet, cha...
AP | JOELLE TESSLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — New rules aimed at prohibiting broadband providers from becoming gatekeepers of Internet traffic now have just enough votes to pass...
Dave Winer | Posted 05.25.2011
Net neutrality is a nice idea, but it's hypocritical to demand that of their vendors when they don't provide it to their users. For some reason they are never called on this hypocrisy by the tech press.
Brad Burnham | Posted 05.25.2011
The FCC can balance the interests of web services innovators and consumers with those of telephone and cable companies by defining application-specific discrimination as unreasonable.
Al Franken | Posted 05.25.2011
This Tuesday is an important day in the fight to save the Internet. The FCC will meet to discuss its badly flawed proposal for net neutrality. If they approve it as is, I'll be outraged. And you should be, too.
Sarah O'Leary | Posted 05.13.2012