Law and Innovation

Fresh and interesting article from TorrentFreak about how Turkey’s Prime Minister, Erdogan, failed at banning Twitter, as local citizens found easy workarounds with tech tools, such as VPNs and DNS. Enjoy the reading!  "Friday's news that the Turkish government had banned its citizens from accessing Twitter was depressing but an opportunity to be embraced. Forewarned is forearmed, and the fact that Turks are learning how to beat censorship with VPNs and DNS tricks better prepares them for the future. Two days ago on the campaign trail ahead of end-of-March elections, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan showed his Internet naivety by doing something extremely silly. In the midst of a corruption scandal he first threatened and then carried through with an outright ban of Twitter. “I don’t care what the international community says at all. Everyone will see the power of the Turkish Republic,” Erdogan said on Thursday. Angry that Twitter did not respond to request...

Fresh and interesting article from The Verge and the Representative Henry A. Waxman reporting the new pair of bills that have been introduced to the Senate and House to protect Net Neutrality . As a reminder, t his founding princ iple of Internet prevents Internet providers/ broadband network providers (like Verizon and Comcast) from dictating the kinds of content you're able to access online. Instead, they have to treat all traffic sources equally. Net neutrality is enforced by the Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ). As you know, earlier this month, a circuit court ruling struck down the FCC's N et N eutrality rules . "WASHINGTON, DC — Today Reps. Henry A. Waxman and Anna G. Eshoo introduced H.R. 3982, the Open Internet Preservation Act , with a Senate companion bill to be introduced by Sen. Ed Markey, to protect consumers and innovation online.  Last month, the D.C. Circuit struck down the Federal Communications Commission's Open Internet rules ...

Fresh and interesting article from TechCrunch concerning the decision from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) doesn’t have the authority to require ISPs to treat all traffic equally; more precisely that the FCC does not have the power to regulate how ISPs manage traffic on their networks.  JFYI : The “ Network neutrality ” is sometimes called “Internet freedom” or “Internet openness” and is a legal principle that would forbid cable and phone companies like AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast from blocking some websites or providing special priority to others. It would forbid Comcast from, e.g . blocking Facebook or Bing. "In a decision that could have far-reaching consequences, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals today struck down the FCC’s Open Internet Order. That Order, put into force in 2010 by then-chairman Julius Genachowski, was designed to make it so that broadband service providers couldn’t meddle w...