Posts Tagged with ‘fcc’

In today's news, the chief excecutive of the Federal Communications Commission announced that his group is opposed to a plan by a Silicon Valley entrepreneur to offer free wireless broadband Internet service nationwide, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The broadband plan was devised by a Menlo Park-based company, known as M2Z Networks, which happens to be run by the FCC's former head of the wireless bureau, John Muleta. M2Z wants to take 25 megahertz of currently unused space [...]

Are you familiar with the V-Chip? It’s a piece of technology embedded into television sets sold in the US for a number of years that allows authoritative wacks parents, guardians, or elders the luxury of controlling what the “underage” can view without said parents, guardians, or elders having to actually supervise said “underage”. Snazzy, eh?
Well, the proponents of this asinine invention (I’m all for proper programming, but as the American television rating system is no doubt ridiculous, I am thus [...]