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Anonymous takes down US Sentencing Commission website | Technology | guardian.co.uk :  The website of the commission, an independent agency of the judicial branch involved in sentencing, was replaced with a message warning that when Swartz killed himself two weeks ago "a line was crossed." In a message posted on the website and in an accompanying YouTube video, the hackers said they had infiltrated several government computer systems and copied secret information they threatened to make public. ...ero. Related articles US sentencing commission website hacked Hackers take over sentencing commission website Hackers take over sentencing commission website United States Sentencing Commission(ussc.gov) hacked and defaced by Anonymous Hackers take over gov't website to avenge Aaron Swartz Hackers take over sentencing commission website Hackers take over sentencing commission website Hackers take over sentencing commission website Anonymous hacks US agency web

Seal of the United States Federal Communications Commission. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Speed Matters - Internet Speed Test | Test Your Internet Connection :  Former FCC commissioners said in a court brief that Verizon 's net neutrality position would cause communications to be "unsettled and dramatically narrowed. Related articles FCC wants gigabit Ethernet in all 50 states by 2015 South Korea, Japan and Hong Kong topped list of highest internet speeds Top5 How to Test Internet Speed - Check Internet Speed Gigabits to kilobits Net neutrality bill looms if court voids FCC order Answer Line: An obscenely slow Internet connection when you're paying for a fast one How to Give the U.S. Ultrafast Internet - Bloomberg How CNET tests networking devices

Logo of the United States Federal Communications Commission, used on their website and some publications since the early 2000s. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Calendar for January 19th, 2013 :  "1961: U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) authorized first space satellite communications link between the United States and Europe on an experimental basis." Related articles FCC Eases Licensing Rules for Airliner Internet Access - Bloomberg FCC Clears The Way For In-Flight Internet Deployment In The U.S. FCC demands Internet be 100 times faster by 2016 RPT-Liberty Media gets nod from FCC to take control of Sirius XM Liberty Media gets nod from FCC to take control of Sirius XM Clearwire investors to Sprint: Up your bid, please Despite Minor Opposition, Softbank, Sprint And Clearwire Should Integrate FCC chief calls for gigabit Internet in all 50 states by 2015 HTC One SV Headed to Sprint, Tips FCC Cell Phones and Brain Cancer: Group Warns RF Radiation

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Image via CrunchBase The Web's New Monopolists By Justin Fox Atlantic Magazine January/February 2013 Ask Jack Dorsey , the co-founder of the social network Twitter and the mobile-payment start-up Square , what his two companies have in common, and he has a quick answer: "they're both utilities." Mark Zuckerberg might agree: he spent years trying to convince people that Facebook is not a social network but a "social utility."  Utilities tend to be boring, slow-growing beasts. They also-and this is the more important point-tend to be monopolies that are either regulated heavily by governments or owned outright by them. But companies like Twitter, Square, and Facebook-not to mention Google, Amazon, and Apple-aspire to a status similar to traditional utilities like Ma Bell . They attempt to position themselves so customers can't get around them, or can't afford to leave them. And when they succeed, they start appearing just lik

Internet users by country world map (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Beyond SOPA: the top nine tech policy stories of 2012 By Timothy B. Lee and Joe Mullin December 27, 2012 Arstechnica The year 2012 started off with one of the most dramatic developments in Internet policy to date: the total implosion of the SOPA/PIPA bills in mid-January. Of all the stories we covered this year, there's little question the outcry over SOPA most changed the debate in Washington . Congressional representatives were deluged by a record public outcry , getting eight million e-mails from regular Internet users within a few days. But 2012 was also the year smartphone patent wars actually hit the courts, making the fight between behemoths Apple vs Samsung another big story.  Also in the list was the courts giving stronger rights to the public to record police activities. Related articles Looking forward: The fight for Internet freedom SOPA dopes At CES, Internet Lobby Gets Rea