Consumer Rights
Earlier this year was a lot of news and hubbub about the battle between Time Warner and News Corp over Fox channels. Time Warner made a big show of the cost hikes, and they made sure to openly blame News Corp for their service fee hikes. They even setup a website asking people to “Get [...]
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After the last few articles that I have written I thought that things couldn’t get much worse. I thought they would at least give it a couple weeks before taking another shot a stomping on consumer rights. Boy was I wrong. Today we received news about a small town in North Carolina called Wilson. This [...]
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Last week was a busy one for not only Time Warner, but also the cable industry. First Time Warner released a statement about the new national broadband initiative to which the FCC has taken on a “consultative role”. In the statement they essentially tell the FCC that the nation needs to stick with worrying about [...]
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For those of you that have been following tech news for the last year or so it is not news that Time Warner is experimenting with and pushing metered billing. What they want to do is set data usage caps and offer customers different tiers of capping and pricing so that they can choose a [...]
This has been a busy week for broadband providers. First Time Warner announces that they will be rolling out tiered internet access to markets in Texas and New York. Tiers which give extremely low consumption caps (5, 10, 20, and 40GB plans). Then AT&T has decided to completely ignore any concept of Net Neutrality on [...]
It seems that every day we are hearing about more and more situations where businesses prove to be not only unreliable, but untrustworthy as well. Recently the RIAA has started a 3-strikes project. They would have ISPs ban users from connecting to the internet after they have been accused of piracy three times. The plan [...]
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Mobile phones have become a cornerstone in how our society communicates, in how the world communicates. When once there were dark spots of communication across our country in areas where phone lines couldn’t reach we can now connect to one another. Lives have been saved by them and have been made easier by them. Mobile [...]
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The other day I was emailed about a situation brewing in Washington, several members of Congress are trying to push through a bill that will make the administration end of farming so difficult that only the largest of distributors could afford to run such operations. This is, of course, all being done in the name [...]
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Today the New York Times reported that AIG, a company that has received two bailouts in less than six months, is planning on rewarding it’s incompitent executives over $168 million in bonuses. How can we continue to let them take advantage of the American people? The lawyers for AIG say that they are contractually obligated [...]
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As absurd as it may sound, it turns out patents really can kill people. This is a first for me, but I found an appaling story about an abuse of the patent system that violates intellectual property rights, consumer rights, human rights, justice, and can lead to more deaths. Now you may be thinking just [...]
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