California Assembly Member Leveraging Familial Connection To Ring

via Kate Cox, writing at Ars Technica, comes this superb reportage; in which, Ms. Cox details the highly troubling connections between California Assemblywoman Irwin, her husband Jon Irwin, COO of Ring (a subsidiary of Amazon LLC (NASDAQ: AMZN)(the co… Continue reading California Assembly Member Leveraging Familial Connection To Ring

Big Cable To Oppose Robocalling Regulations

via Jon Brodkin, reporting at Ars Technica comes this story of Those Terrible People In The Cable Industry.
The latest outrage from the Cable Industry (in the United States, at least) is to direct their trade lobby group in pitching Senators and Repr… Continue reading Big Cable To Oppose Robocalling Regulations

FCC Chairman Pai Front-Loads FCC Consumer Advisory Panel With Anti-Consumer Functionaries

The Chairman has apparently decided it’s OK to front load a consumer level commission with anti-consumer business ‘leaders’… Pais behavior as Chairman certainly crosses the line into the realm of corruption and, at the very least malfeasance. When w… Continue reading FCC Chairman Pai Front-Loads FCC Consumer Advisory Panel With Anti-Consumer Functionaries

Office Depot & Support.com Cough Up $35,000,000: FTC Smackdown Of Scammer Corporations

via Jon Brodkin, writing at Ars Technica, comes the story of a total of $35 million dollars paid by two sketchy retail corporations (Office Depot and it’s partner in crime – Support.com) in the US, whom have fallen from grace most profoundly. Read it… Continue reading Office Depot & Support.com Cough Up $35,000,000: FTC Smackdown Of Scammer Corporations

FCC Coughs Up $43,000 For Hiding Net neutrality Records

You Can Bet The Chairman Will Be Implicated In This…
via Jon Brodkin, writing at Condé Nast media property Ars Technica, in which, Mr. Brodkin reports on bad news for Chairman Ajit Pai, as the FCC was forced to settle a suit (to the tune of 43K… Continue reading FCC Coughs Up $43,000 For Hiding Net neutrality Records

Listen In On FCC Lawyers Attempting To Defend Repeal Of Net Neutrality Rules

Shake It Ajit, Shake It…
Listen to the three judge panel at the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit hearing oral arguements on that little matter of Net Neutrality rules repeal. In the audio, you’ll hear Federal C… Continue reading Listen In On FCC Lawyers Attempting To Defend Repeal Of Net Neutrality Rules

NYT Reports: Facebookery of the Highest Order

Within the 18th of December’s Facebook reportage on the pages of the New York Times, Gabriel J.X. Dance, Michael LaForgia and Nicholas Confessore have written a classic piece dé resistance of investigative journalism. In which, we learn the bitt… Continue reading NYT Reports: Facebookery of the Highest Order