Nearly Half US Residents (and Californians) Don't Meet Minimum Internet...
Larry CohenCommunication Workers of AmericaAccording to new research released Wednesday by the Communications Workers of America (CWA), 49 percent of U.S. residents do not meet the FCC’s minimum...
View ArticleWomen, Minority, & Veteran-Owned Wireless Businesses Access Improves
By Assemblymember Mike DavisAccess. Access to healthcare. Access to jobs. Access to affordable housing. Accessibility is a condition that we all desire. It is what allows us to meet our needs and...
View ArticleWe Must Stop the Right-wing Rhetoric that Incites Violence
By Hannah-Beth JacksonSpeak Out CaliforniaAs Americans and people of common decency, we are deeply saddened and offended by the most recent violence perpetrated upon Gabrielle Giffords, a warm and...
View ArticleWith Weiner’s Fall, Clarence Thomas Can Breathe a Sigh of Relief
By Earl Ofari HutchinsonNew America MediaDemocrats, from the White House down, screamed for New York Representative Anthony Weiner to resign, and he finally did. But it’s not a Democrat who’s breathing...
View ArticleMore Californians Using Cell Phones to Go Online
Public Policy Institute of CaliforniaSAN FRANCISCO, June 22, 2011—Californians are twice as likely to use their cell phones to access the Internet than they were just three years ago, according to a...
View ArticleBART and the New Era of Censorship
By Tim Karr Free PressI have spent most of the week poring over news stories, blogs and commentary on last week’s decision by Bay Area Rapid Transit officials to shut off cellphone service to quash...
View ArticleFacial Recognition: A Top Privacy Issue of Our Time
By Amber YooPrivacy Rights ClearinghouseFacial recognition technology – especially as the technology becomes more sophisticated – may be one of the gravest privacy threats of our time. It has the...
View ArticleAdvocates Launch Campaign to Get Anti-Trafficking Bill on State Ballot
By Elena Shore New America MediaLeah Albright-Byrd, a native San Franciscan who ran away from home at age 14 to escape a violent father, said she didn’t know she “was running into the arms of a...
View ArticleInternet Blackout Today: The Fight For A Free And Open Web
By Isaiah J. PooleBecause our fight for a people-powered democracy and an economy that works for all Americans depends on a free and open Internet, OurFuture.org today is standing in solidarity with...
View ArticleSOPA and PIPA Die: Anti-Piracy Push Languishes for Now
By David DayenAfter the death of PIPA this morning comes the news that Lamar Smith, the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee who planned on resuming the markup of SOPA, the House version...
View ArticleA “Separate but Equal” Internet?
By Stephanie Chen and Chris BrownGreenlining InstituteCalifornians know better than anyone that in today’s world technology is the essential portal to information, and the old line that knowledge is...
View ArticleDigital Grab: Corporate Power Has Seized the Internet
By Norman SolomonIf your daily routine took you from one homegrown organic garden to another, bypassing vast fields choked with pesticides, you might feel pretty good about the current state of...
View ArticleUncle Sam and Corporate Tech: Domestic Partners Raising Digital Big Brother
By Norman SolomanA terrible formula has taken hold:warfare state + corporate digital power = surveillance state."National security" agencies and major tech sectors have teamed up to make Big Brother a...
View ArticleThe Buck Stops at the FCC
By Michael CoppsSince the DC Court threw out the Federal Communications Commission’s Open Internet rules last week, “network neutrality” is a glaring problem that demands prompt action. The good news...
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