By JENNA WORTHAM Published: January 17, 2012 With a Web-wide protest on Wednesday that includes a 24-hour shutdown of the English-language Wikipedia, the legislative battle over two Internet piracy bills has reached an extraordinary moment — a political coming of age for a relatively young and disorganized industry that has largely steered clear of lobbying [...]

By Mark Hosenball | Reuters – Wed, 11 Jan, 2012 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s command center routinely monitors dozens of popular websites, including Facebook, Twitter, Hulu, WikiLeaks and news and gossip sites including the Huffington Post and Drudge Report, according to a government document. A “privacy compliance review” issued by DHS [...]

By TIM MAK | 12/27/11 12:37 PM EST The conservative and liberal blogospheres are unifying behind opposition to Congress’s Stop Online Piracy Act, with right-leaning bloggers arguing their very existence could be wiped out if the anti-piracy bill passes. “If either the U.S. Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) & the U.S. House’s Stop Online Piracy [...]

By Tim Devaney The Washington Times Monday, December 19, 2011 The United States is unprepared for an international fight that’s brewing over whether the Internet will remain free from government regulations or fall increasingly under the control of emerging global powers, Federal Communications Commissioner Robert McDowell warned Monday “The proponents of Internet freedom and prosperity [...]

By Maxim Lott Published December 16, 2011 FoxNews.com Are your tax dollars helping hide global warming data from the public? Internal emails leaked as part of “Climategate 2.0” indicate the answer may be “Yes.” The original Climategate emails — correspondence stolen from servers at a research facility in the U.K. and released on the Internet [...]

By Gautham Nagesh – 12/16/11 Members of the House Homeland Security Committee introduced a cybersecurity bill on Thursday that would establish a quasi-governmental entity to oversee information-sharing with the private sector. Like the other cybersecurity bills offered by the House GOP, the Promoting and Enhancing Cybersecurity and Information Sharing Effectiveness (PrECISE Act) encourages private firms [...]

Dec 12, 2011 By Jennifer Rubin Over the weekend, First Amendment impresario Floyd Abrams addressed two controversial Internet piracy bills, the Senate’s Protect IP Act (PIPA) and the House version, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). He argued that the bill, designed to stop Internet theft of intellectual property, has been denounced by critics for [...]

By Dan Gainor Published November 11, 2011 FoxNews.com If you’ve been following the news this week, you’d get the impression that America is a scandal-plagued nation. Scandals to the right of us, scandals to the left of us.  Take your pick. There’s the media assault on GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, the deadly “Fast and [...]

Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, October 15, 2011, 3:27 PM The American Nazi Party likes what it sees. Today the American Nazi Party released a statement in support of Occupy Wall Street movement. The foremost authority on National Socialism in America has this to say about “Occupy” [ANP leader Rocky Suhayda -ed.] : What [...]

Oct 6, 2011 Hank Williams Jr. and his iconic theme song will not return to ESPN’s “Monday Night Football,” the network announced Thursday. In the wake of Williams using an analogy involving Adolf Hitler and President Barack Obama to make a political point on the Fox News Channel, Williams’ “All My Rowdy Friends” will no [...]