Tracy Bloom / TruthdigFeb 27, 2013
Beginning this week, the five major Internet service providers--AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon--will be able to take recourse against you if you download--or are suspected of downloading--anything illegally. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
By Justin Elliott, ProPublicaFeb 17, 2013
Like the nonprofit groups that poured money into last year’s elections, the decade-old State Government Leadership Foundation has been able to keep the identities of its funders secret. Until now. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigFeb 14, 2013
"We're stuck with old-fashioned technology," Bill Moyers says, "because, as [communications law expert] Susan Crawford explains, our government has allowed a few giant conglomerates to rig the rules, raise prices and stifle competition Just like Standard Oil in the first Gilded Age a century ago". Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 19, 2011
House Republicans have succeeding in amending a spending bill to deny the FCC money to implement new (and heavily gutted) network neutrality regulations. That’s right: banning a government agency from using government money to do government work. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigAug 30, 2010
Why does the Washington Post allow an employee of Time Warner to write commentaries on Time Warner? That's the question posed by Glenn Greenwald, who writes that the paper "employs as its media critic an employee of Time Warner, the largest media conglomerate in the world." (continued) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 10, 2007
The head of the Cartoon Network has stepped down because of the recent terror scare in Boston, which was caused by the city's overreaction to an advertising ploy -- nine other cities managed not to descend into hysterics when the Lite-Brite-like advertisements began appearing. Jim Samples shouldn't have to lose his job because authorities in Boston mistook a blinking cartoon character for an act of terrorism. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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