Comcast goes before Senate judiciary committee tomorrow (April 9th)

[deckeda]

(If you don't know, they want to merge with. i.e. acquire Time Warner cable. And so, have a lot of appeasement and begging to do. Which under normal circumstances would be a Huge Red Flag.)

ars' headline: "Comcast: Without Time Warner Cable, we can’t compete against Google, Netflix

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/...e-netflix/

The notion of Comcast, with all that they already control, being at a significant disadvantage to Google(!) and Netflix(!) because they should be "competing" with them makes me wretch.

[cbelt3]

[Speedy]

cbelt3 wrote:

:agree: But the SCOTUS would find, by 5-4, that this violates the sponsors' free speech rights.

[gabester]

Speedy wrote:
[quote=cbelt3]

:agree: But the SCOTUS would find, by 5-4, that this violates the sponsors' free speech rights.
Someone's got to submit a FOIA to cleverly determine out who has received donations from whom.

Especially anything since last summer's NSA revelations by Edward Snowden, that whole right to privacy thing goes out the window because there clearly is no expectation of it if the courts haven't blocked the wholesale capture of metadata.