Update on case against FCC rules
Friday, February 13th, 2004The Prometheus project has linked to a review by their lawyer - the head of the Media Access Project - of the oral argument session in their case against the FCC.
Archive for February, 2004
The Prometheus project has linked to a review by their lawyer - the head of the Media Access Project - of the oral argument session in their case against the FCC.
Mobile phones fight poverty
Friday, February 13th, 2004I had heard similar stories previously, but it's worth drawing attention to this story from Bytes for All:Md. Arafatul Islam, a freelance ICT journalist from Bangladesh, narrates having recently visited a "remote village of Bangladesh named Moukhara under Natore District (in the north-west)" where he was surprised to learn of ...
Ben Scott on Direct Democracy
Wednesday, February 11th, 2004Ben Scott, ICR student and Congressional staffer, spoke at the University YMCA on Friday, on the topic of Direct Democracy on the Internet. Using the campaign against the FCC's rule changes on media ownership as an example, he examined the impact of internet on citizen involvement in politics. [The Daily Illini ...
Electronic voting on Q and A
Monday, February 9th, 2004PRO Paul Whelan spoke this evening, from the audience, on Questions and Answers. [View the segment here in Real Video]. He referred to two issues:the obsolete operating system on which the counting system operates (Windows '98), which is at odds with the government's desire to be 'cutting edge' (and I've ...
Actions of Joyce estate highlight problems with copyright law
Sunday, February 8th, 2004According to an article in the Irish Times (registration required) the Joyce estate has informed the Irish government that it intends to sue for copyright infringement if there are any public readings of Joyce's works during the festival commemorating the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday this June.
What is terrorism, Bob?
Sunday, February 8th, 2004Browsing the latest edition of The Progressive I came across this fascinating quotation in a story about the criminalization of dissent in the USA:Mike Van Winkle, spokesman for the California Anti-Terrorism Information Center, told the Oakland Tribune last year: "You can make an easy kind of link that, if you ...
Globalization and American Exceptionalism
Sunday, February 8th, 2004Report on a talk by Andy Rojecki, University of Illinois assistant communication professor, by funferal guest columnist Sabryna Cornish. Can globalization infiltrate the world as envisioned by some scholars if America is included in the formula? The answer seems to be no if the country continues in its present course. Rojecki ...
Button mania
Saturday, February 7th, 2004Can anyone explain for me what a traffic light has to do with electronic voting? The trope of buttons has been used to the point of abuse in the promotional campaign for electronic voting. The idea is obviously to convince members of the public that electronic button is just about ...
Schedule of propaganda briefings
Saturday, February 7th, 2004A timetable for the regional briefings on electronic voting has been published on the ICTE mailing list. If you can attend, asking questions, distributing leaflets, and being visibly in opposition, this will be useful. If you contact us we will put you in touch with other people who will be ...
Questions for, but no answers from, department
Friday, February 6th, 2004Joe McCarthy has pointed us to a list of 41 questions he submitted to the Department, questioning various (serious) flaws in the electronic voting system. Including such issues as the documented failure of a ballot module in 2002, none of the questions have yet been addressed by the department.