Showing posts with label fcc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fcc. Show all posts

Thursday, January 04, 2018

Saturday, May 20, 2017

Thursday, January 12, 2017

Regulation

FCC slams free data on cell phone plans because of net neutrality.

EPA charges Fiat Chrysler with excess emissions.

Friday, December 23, 2016

Media

Thank Herbert Hoover for the modern media cartel.
"Harding appointed him Secretary of Commerce. Hoover then oversaw the nationalization of the airwaves. He created the Federal Radio Commission, which became the Federal Communications Commission. Instead of selling air space to the highest bidder — the free market solution — he let the FCC license and periodically re-license broadcasters. This became the basis of the second most important cartel after the banking cartel: the media cartel. This was the origin of the mainstream media."
Yep. He was also the originator of New Deal.

Friday, December 16, 2016

Regulation

Good for AT&T and Verizon for pushing back against FCC net neutrality coercion.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Regulation

FCC pauses until Trump takes office.

Saturday, November 05, 2016

Regulation

FCC pretends to care about privacy.

Sunday, September 18, 2016

Regulation

Netflix pushes FCC to use coercion to boost its business.

Volkswagon engineer plead guilty to making cars run better than government allows.

Sunday, June 26, 2016

Regulation

Net neutrality activists demand FCC stop internet freebies, harming consumers.

Russia passes law requiring encryption backdoors.

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Regulation

Charter and Time Warner - and Comcast for that matter - overcharge customers because government grants them regional monopolies.

Appeals court rules internet is a utility, not an optional service. It also upheld net neutrality.

Saturday, May 14, 2016

Regulation

To protect against minimum wage laws, Wendys plans to covert 6,000 restaurants to kiosk self-service.

FCC bans all changes to routers by users.

Saturday, March 19, 2016

Regulation

FCC to allow Charter's acquisition of Time Warner.

Fast food CEO invests in automation because regulations make hiring people too expensive.

Saturday, January 23, 2016

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Regulation

California requires self-driving cars to have steering wheels. Maybe they'll do the same for horses.

FAA to take over restricting and corporatizing access to the moon.

Authoritarians up in arms in the name of net neutrality over T-mobile allowing unlimited bandwidth for certain services to better serve customers.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Regulation

National Park Service bans electronic cigarettes in parks.
"National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis said in their efforts to protect the health and safety of visitors and employees, they are extending restrictions on tobacco smoke to include vapor from electronic smoking devices."
Banning water vapor doesn't improve anybody's safety.

FCC's net neutrality rules ban free content.

Wednesday, September 02, 2015

Regulation

FCC plans to ban firmware modification on routers. What a bunch of crap.

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Tax and Spend

At the eleventh hour, it looks like Europe's rulers are finally willing to make some concessions to Greece's rulers. Playing hardball and flirting with Putin may have worked for Tsipras.

Headline claims Washington fears losing Greece to Moscow. I thought that might have triggered Europe's rulers' change of heart.

Obama's FCC is pushing internet welfare. That let's you know the government knows it controls the internet.

Regulation

FCC's net neutrality rules is already having a negative impact on companies and customers. This is based on the fact that internet bandwidth is a limited resource so companies were foolish to sell "unlimited bandwidth" plans. There's no such thing as unlimited bandwidth.

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Regulation

California declares Uber drivers are employees, not contractors.

FCC fines AT&T for throttling unlimited data users, proving it doesn't understand resources are limited.

Monday, June 15, 2015

Tax and Spend

Republican House Chairman makes reasonable case for privatizing air traffic control.
"Rep. Bill Shuster, R-Pa., who is chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, told the Aero Club of Washington that privatizing air-traffic control with aviation fees would save billions of dollars and provide more stable funding than congressional appropriations.
"Now is the time for transformational change that provides a safe, reliable modern aviation system for our future," Shuster said."
I expect he'll lose his chairmanship over this.

Corrupt accounting keeps publicized Federal dept stuck at same level for 90 days to avoid the legal debt limit.