By Yaël Ossowski / February 27, 2015 / Watchdog.org In the wake of a Texas judge’s decision to halt President Obama’s temporary amnesty for illegal immigrants, derided by most House and Senate Republicans, a quartet of top GOP leaders are bringing fresh perspective to the idea of positive immigration reform within their party and, if […]
It’s here: FCC adopts net neutrality, first significant Internet regulation
By Yaël Ossowski / Watchdog.org / February 26, 2015 Watched by leagues of passionate activists on both sides, the Federal Communications Commission today passed its first significant Internet regulation by reclassifying it as a Title II public utility, known as net neutrality. “The American people reasonably expect and deserve an Internet that is fast, fair […]
Symposium: A World Without Borders?
Tomorrow afternoon I’ll be giving a talk at Tilburg University in the Netherlands on the topic of “A World Without Borders”. The Facebook event can be found here. February 25, 2015 Tilburg, Netherlands
Has the tide turned against the FCC’s plan for regulating the Internet?
By Yaël Ossowski / Watchdog.org / February 23, 2015 Whether the public knows it or not, the Internet is set to face its biggest transformation yet when the Federal Communications Commission meets in Washington, D.C. on Thursday. It’s at this meeting of the commissioners, cloaked in bureaucratic mystique, that FCC chairman Tom Wheeler is expected […]
Alone. Alone to the very end. I… every one of us. But to have been granted the grace of meeting and touching so fleetingly: is that not the most awesome and wonderful thing one can hope for in this world?
André Brink, A Dry White Season
Mark Cuban: FCC control of Internet ‘scares the sh*t out of me’
By Yaël Ossowski / Watchdog.org / February 20, 2015 The idea of the Federal Communications Commission regulating the Internet by way of net neutrality is not only a bad idea in Mark Cuban’s view, but it’s also literally scary. “Having them overseeing the Internet scares the sh*t out of me,” said Cuban at the Code/Media […]
Racism in the 21st Century
I was recently asked about the “huge increase in racism” in the past few years. It’s a topic I’m normally faced with upon returning to North Carolina from abroad. Not sure why. It’s become a leading narrative for many political observers and it seems denotes something very bothersome about what is going on in society. […]
States don’t want illegal immigrants, but could they need them?
By Yaël Ossowski / Watchdog.org / February 19, 2015 A coalition of 26 states fought and won a battle to freeze President Barack Obama’s deferred action plan to give temporary work visas to illegal immigrants with children born in the United States. Judge Andrew Hanen’s injunction order, issued Monday, makes certain eligible illegal immigrants won’t […]
Does the NSA have a spy in your hard drive?
A protestor holds up a sign at a rally against the NSA’s spying program. By Yaël Ossowski | Watchdog.org | February 18, 2015 A Russian security firm claims to have uncovered a major tool used to rewrite hard drives and collect all stored information in potentially millions of computers and hard drives around the world. […]