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POLITICS / NEWS Mon Nov 12, 2007 @ 5:02pm neoform

Boston Globe -- Even as Governor Deval Patrick seeks to license three resort casinos in Massachusetts, he hopes to clamp down on the explosion in Internet gambling by making it illegal for state residents to place a bet on line. He has proposed jail terms of up to two ye.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Nov 5, 2007 @ 11:20pm neoform

Google Associated Press -- Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, aided by an extraordinary outpouring of Internet support Monday, hauled in more than $3.5 million in 20 hours. Paul, the Texas congressman with a Libertarian tilt and an out-of-Iraq pitch, entered heady fundr.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon May 21, 2007 @ 9:39am neoform

Washington Post -- When David All, a former Republican congressional aide, launched a blog recently that he hopes will spur his fellow Republicans to bridge the digital divide, he did his best to sound upbeat. "Today our Revolution begins," he wrote. "Tomorrow we fight.".. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

ABC News -- It's guerrilla politics at its cleverest. The mysterious Internet video that compares Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton to Big Brother is the boffo hit of the YouTube Web site. The 74-second clip, a copy of a 1984 Apple ad for its Macintosh computer, has rec.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jan 3, 2007 @ 8:24pm neoform

New York Times -- One of the big winners in the last election may turn out to be the principle, known as net neutrality, that Internet service providers should not be able to favor some content over others. Democrats who are moving into the majority in Congress — led by.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri May 9, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

MSNBC -- The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday introduced legislation that would bar network providers from discriminating against some Internet content. Committee chairman John Conyers, a Democrat from Michigan, said the bill he and Califor.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Nov 14, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- The administration has vehemently defended the eavesdropping, saying the NSA’s activities were narrowly targeted to intercept international calls and e-mails of Americans and others inside the U.S. with suspected ties to the al-Qaida terror network... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Nov 6, 2007 @ 12:57am neoform

Yahoo News -- Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, aided by an extraordinary outpouring of Internet support Monday, hauled in more than $3.5 million in 20 hours. Paul, the Texas congressman with a Libertarian tilt and an out-of-Iraq pitch, entered heady fundr.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Tue Sep 4, 2007 @ 2:22pm neoform

Vanity Fair -- Al Gore couldn't believe his eyes: as the 2000 election heated up, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other top news outlets kept going after him, with misquotes ("I invented the Internet"), distortions (that he lied about being the inspiration.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Tue Jul 10, 2007 @ 4:26pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- On 5 March this year, an ad appeared on the spectacularly popular video-sharing website, YouTube. The person who posted it identified him or herself as 'ParkRidge47' - the place where Hillary Clinton grew up and her year of birth - but the video did not a.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 7:37pm neoform

The Register -- A San Francisco tech show degenerated into a shouting match today, after a pugnacious Bush commerce official squared off with heated supporters of net neutrality. John Kneuer, the assistant secretary for communications and information, quickly lost his.. Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Fri Jun 15, 2007 @ 12:26pm neoform

Alter Net -- Internet guru Joe Trippi visited the UK to tell British politicians that the rules for dealing with "old media" no longer apply. Internet activism is spelling the end for the age of spin, the online campaign guru Joe Trippi will warned two British poli.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri May 4, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

Washington Post -- Howard Dean's cometlike campaign in 2003 was the first to integrate the Internet into a presidential race, and Joe Rospars was there, a 22-year-old working as an "all-around Web guy" until the campaign suddenly collapsed. Four years later, it's not jus.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jan 10, 2007 @ 11:13am neoform

New York Times -- Senior lawmakers, emboldened by the recent restrictions on AT&T and the change in control of Congress, have begun drafting legislation that would prevent high-speed Internet companies from charging content providers for priority access... Read More

POLITICS / OPINION Thu Nov 16, 2006 @ 6:00pm neoform

Slate -- In the wee hours of an early Saturday morning several weeks ago, about half an hour before Congress left for its pre-election recess, it passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006. The act tries to bar credit-card payments to Internet g.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Oct 30, 2006 @ 3:07pm neoform

Yahoo News -- The Bush administration is failing to counter Islamist online propaganda that could propel militancy into the next generation, experts say... Read More