According to Boing Boing, AT&T’s terms of service now say they can
terminate your contract if you criticize them.
I wonder how enforcible that is? Can they legally make that claim? Often terms of service will have a clause about what happens if a court finds some part of the Terms of Service illegal or unenforceable. [...]

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Over at Obsidian Wings, Publius also writes about that series of tubes known as the Internet, and why deregulating those tubes is a bad idea.

To understand Uncle Ted’s point, imagine that Congress was debating whether to privatize the federal interstate highway system. And let’s say that Rep. Joe Barton (R-Comcast) justified privatizing our roads on [...]

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Kinda excited about it, just haven’t bought any yet. Here’s the main problem: I haven’t seen anything I really want. The first day the shop opened I went through my Amazon wishlist and checked to see if MP3s were available for any of the albums there. (No.) There’s a James Brown track I want that’s [...]

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Here’s another example of why we need net neutrality regulations: Verizon has refused to let Naral Pro-Choice America set up an opt-in text messaging program used by other political and commercial operations because it finds Naral’s program “
controversial or unsavory.”
Once again, major carriers are insisting that eliminating net neutrality requirements is an expansion of freedom. [...]

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It’s been a bad few days for logo design. First Adobe
kidney-punches us with a crappy new me-too speech bubble + monocle logo. What, doesn’t Adobe have any talented artists?
And then, while we’re still writhing in agony, Wacom
kicks us in the head with a logo probably designed by someone’s thirteen-year-old nephew for $20. No, [...]

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