Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz commits suicide at age 26

“…we live in a world where the architects of the financial crisis regularly dine at the White House — and where even those brought to ‘justice’ never even have to admit any wrongdoing, let alone be labeled ‘felons.’ ”

 

Josh Peterson The Daily Caller 1/12/2013

Aaron Swartz — Internet activist, RSS co-author [...]

The Pauls’ New Crusade: ‘Internet Freedom’

Defending the Internet — and the corporations that invest in it — from government regulation is the new “End the Fed,” Paul advisors tell BuzzFeed exclusively. A new Paul manifesto: “This is our revolution.”

Senator Rand Paul and Congressman Ron Paul. Click on the image to enlarge.

Rosie Gray BuzzFeed 7/5/2012

Ron and Rand [...]

Verizon to FCC: Free speech trumps Net neutrality rules

The carrier has filed its first brief outlining its arguments in a federal lawsuit, calling the FCC’s rules “arbitrary and capricious” — and unconstitutional.

Marguerite Reardon CNET 7/3/2012

Bring out the constitutional scholars: Verizon says the Federal Communications Commission’s Net neutrality rules violate the right to free speech.

In a nutshell, Verizon argues that the [...]

Obama Official-Network Neutrality Deviser Says First Amendment Doesn’t Apply to Our Computers

Seton Motley Breitbart.com Big Government 25 Jun 2012

On December 21, 2010 the Barack Obama Administration–via its Federal Communications Commission (FCC)– illegally imposed Network Neutrality.

Net Neutrality allows the government to regulate every website on the World Wide Web–a tremendous First Amendment free speech problem.

Net Neutrality came from the fevered mind of Tim Wu. [...]

ObamaCare Subjects Nearly Everyone’s Phone and Computer to Government Control

Seton Motley Breitbart.com Big Government 3/12/2012

As we have been again reminded by the Barack Obama Administration’s fraudulent Sandra Fluke, abortion-pill-and-birth-control assault on the First Amendment, we are staring down the barrel of the ObamaCare gun.

Its 2014 full-on implementation will lead inexorably to more and more rescissions of our Constitutional rights, a downward spiral [...]

‘Very Dangerous Legislation Moving Forward’–Our SOPA Round-up

David Foster Chicago Boyz 12/30/2011

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, writes:

This week, a bill that would create America’s first Internet censorship system is going to a full committee for a vote, and is likely to pass.

He is referring to the “Stop Online Piracy” act and the related “Protect IP” [...]

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