Check out this article on high tech anarchy protests during the RNC Convention in NYC. While I don’t condone the illegal uses (e.g., breaking in on protected licensed frequencies), I do applaud the many creative uses of wireless networking — made possible by the FCC unlicensed rules.
And I’m off on vacation, culminating in the community wireless summit. No doubt I’ll have loads to wax eloquent about when I return.
Stay tuned . . .
What 11th Circuit did was more important, but much less analytical. 11th Circuit decided that Google was not common carrier by virtue of how it acts (correct, IMO), and elided over whether a state could ever declare a service common carrier.
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Folks making a big deal about the Yost v. Google case in OH need to keep in mind where this is in the proceeding -- a motion to dismiss. What the court said was that alleging Google search acts as a common carrier is not intrinsically stupid and can go to the merits. /1
Reinstating #netneutrality is extremely popular among both Rs and Ds. This is more true, not less true, when presented with detailed arguments pro and con.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/26/gop-voters-back-reinstating-net-neutrality-when-given-case-against-poll-finds/
it's honestly fucking sick to be like "well gun control is impossible; but what would stop this is a warrantless surveillance regime that proactively monitors the content of all private messages" https://twitter.com/blakereid/status/1529531746013831168
For anyone holding out hope that there wouldn't be a horrible, intertwined technology policy angle to the Uvalde shooting, no such luck. Look for "guns don't kill people, encryption kills people" talking points any moment now. https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1529524398105014274
Annoyed at how 11th Circuit in *Netchoice* case brushes aside *Church of Lukami Babalu* by saying "well, that was a Free Exercise case, not a 1A case." Why does this distinction matter for finding of discriminatory intent? 11th Cir doesn't say.
My only comment is that this stuff intrigues the hell out of me and I don’t understand it nearly as well as I want to. Therefore if I can make it out to Illinois for this conference I will do so. If not, I’ll hope to catch up with y’all at worldcon and get myself more properly informed then.