Items tagged ‘future-tense’
- in the news | July 18, 2014 | Future Tense
Net Neutrality a Key Battleground in Growing Fight over Encryption
Activists and tech companies fended off efforts in the U.S. in the 1990s to ban Internet encryption or give the government ways around it, but an e... - in the news | July 17, 2014 | Future Tense
Google Plus finally gives up on its ineffective, dangerous real-name policy
After three years, Google finally got it. Google now admits it was wrong to require real names on Google Plus, and it’s apologized for taking so lo... - in the news | June 19, 2014 | Future Tense
The Father Of Net Neutrality Wants to Fix New York Politics
Tim Wu was barely 30 years old when a concept he invented, network neutrality, became a central part of internet policy debates. Now, a decade late... - in the news | June 17, 2014 | Future Tense
Tim Wu Makes A Bid For Net Neutrality
The internet has revolutionized human connectivity, but can be described, most simply, as a public space. Which is why New York state residents oug... - in the news | June 17, 2014 | Future Tense
Tim Wu runs for New York State Lieutenant Governor, promising to clamp down on big business
Tim Wu, the Columbia law professor who coined the term "Net Neutrality," is running for Lieutenant Governor of New York State on a leftist, reform ... - in the news | June 04, 2014 | Future Tense
The Battle Over Private Search
Of all the news to come out of this week’s Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, one update went almost unnoticed: Apple is partnering with a smal... - in the news | May 19, 2014 | Future Tense
The Rise of Blogger-Activists, and the Regimes that Rule by Fear
Emily Parker, author of Now I Know Who My Comrades Are, joins the program to explain how the Internet is helping to change activism. Click here to ... - in the news | May 14, 2014 | Future Tense
‘Net Neutrality’ Puts FCC at Center of Storm
Silicon Valley is “very frustrated,” said Marvin Ammori, a technology-policy consultant who helped organize a letter of protest to the FCC from mor... - in the news | May 13, 2014 | Future Tense
In Google case, E.U. court says people are entitled to control their own online histories
“It definitely makes Europe a less favorable place for these companies to do business. . . . But that’s a balance these countries are allowed to ma... - in the news | May 10, 2014 | Future Tense
Defending the Open Internet
Tim Wu, 41, a law professor at Columbia University, isn’t a direct participant in the rule making, but he is influencing it. A dozen years ago, bui... - in the news | May 08, 2014 | Future Tense
Death of the Infomercial
Since the 1950s, late night TV has been the world of the infomercial: late night hucksters selling ginsu knives, wearable towels, Snuggies... But i... - in the news | May 02, 2014 | Future Tense
Beyond Net Neutrality
That's how things worked when Tim Wu, an academic who's now a law professor at Columbia, coined the term network neutrality in 2002. ISPs purchased... - in the news | April 05, 2014 | Future Tense
Secret 'Cuban Twitter' Poses Big Hurdle For Bloggers, Exiles
"Cuban authorities already try to paint critical bloggers like Yoani Sanchez as U.S.-funded mercenaries, and the report about ZunZuneo will only gi... - in the news | March 24, 2014 | Future Tense
Net Neutrality and the Fight for Your TV
“We could remember this as the beginning of the cable-ization of the Internet,” lawyer and Internet policy expert Marvin Ammori said, “where some ‘... - in the news | March 21, 2014 | Future Tense
Twittersphere Rallies to Help Turks By-Pass Block
Emily Parker, a New America Foundation fellow who has a new book on digital activism in authoritarian governments, noted that many people are able ... - in the news | March 14, 2014 | Future Tense
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sheri Fink Win Book Awards
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sheri Fink were among the winners of the National Book Critics Circle Awards, named Thursday night in New York City. T... - in the news | February 23, 2014 | Future Tense
Comcast and Netflix Reach Deal on Service
Others, including Tim Wu, a Columbia Law School professor and advocate for net neutrality, said the interconnection agreement between Comcast and N... -
The Net Delusion
The Dark Side of Internet Freedom
Evgeny Morozov"The revolution will be Twittered!” declared journalist Andrew Sullivan after protests erupted in Iran in June 2009. Yet for all the talk about the...