Category: Internet

Stop Internet Sales Tax

Stop Internet Sales Tax — The Independence Hall Tea Party Association is asking all to call the congressman to stop the  Internet Sales Tax bill, known as the ‘Marketplace
Fairness Act,’

The bill passed the US Senate in lopsided vote 69-27 vote but can be stopped in the US House.

“Please continue to call the Capitol Switchboard at 202.224.3121 and ask to be connected to your Congressman/woman.  Tell your Representative to oppose the Internet Sales Tax bill,” says Association President Teri Adams. “Then, use the same number to call Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor.  Tell them not to move the bill forward.”

She also suggest a  call be placed to House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) as that committee can deal a lethal blow to the tax bill.

 

Stop Internet Sales Tax

Cyber Bully Bill Before Full House

Cyber Bully Bill Before Full House — The House Judiciary Committee unanimously approved legislation, May 7, to address cyber harassment of a child, reports State Rep. Jim Cox (R-129).

HB 1163 would make it a third-degree misdemeanor to use electronic communications to repeatedly make statements or offer opinions about a child’s sexuality or sexual activity “whether true or not”. The bill also would make it a misdemeanor to make statements that significantly ridicule, demean or cause serious embarrassment to a child under the circumstances or offer a threat of unlawful harm.

Child is defined as someone under the age of 18.

It exempts communications made for “medical, education or other legitimate purposes, if the actor is an adult”.

House Bill 1163 now goes to the full House for consideration.

 

Cyber Bully Bill Before Full House

Tidbit Of The Day

Only 9 percent of internet users say they never visit YouTube.

Kids Still Like Radio

Kids Still Like Radio — The most popular form of listening to music for those ages 13 through 35 remains old-fashioned AM/FM radio with 24 percent citing it as their primary means of doing so. Internet radio is second at 23 percent, followed by digital files — like those you’d find on an iPod — at 15 percent, on-demand services at 14 percent, CDs at just 9 percent and, satellite at 5 percent.  Ten percent cited other.

Kids Still Like Radio

Moms Rule Internet Says EMarketer

Moms Rule Internet Says EMarketer — EMarketer.com reports that 94.5 percent of women with children living at home are internet users. That compares with 75.7 percent of Americans overall.

Moms Rule Internet Says EMarketer

Twitter Rules Muslim World

Twitter Rules Muslim World — In Saudi Arabia, 51 percent of internet users are active Twitter users, according to eMarketer.com. This is the highest percentage of Twitter users of any nation.

The Saudis are followed by Turkey with 39 percent of internet users being Twitter users and the United Arab Emirates with 34 percent of internet users being Twitter users.

The United States is not even in the top 10.

Twitter Rules Muslim World

Twitter Rules Muslim World

216 Million Email Users In 2013

216 Million Email Users In 2013 — There are 216.6 million email users in the United States, which is 68.4 percent of the population.

What’s weird is that the nation has only 204. 1 million users of internet search engines.

Hat tip eMarketer.com

Ecommerce Tops $1 Trillion For First Time

Ecommerce Tops $1 Trillion — Ecommerce topped $1 trillion for the first time in 2012 reports eMarketer.com.

Ecommerce Tops $1 Trillion For First Time

UN Web Resolution Is Little Reported

UN Web Resolution Is Little Reported — A draft of telecommunication regulations was passed, Dec. 11, at the International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) World Conference held in Dubai.

The ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for information and communications technology.
Here is the draft DT/51-E rev1 as a pdf file.
Most of it seems pretty reasonable with things such as giving priority to distress communications, limiting the ability to tax international messaging to the customers in that country, requiring transparency in pricing and encouraging member states to take steps to prevent the propagation of spam bulk emails.
On the other hand, there are those concerned that it sets a precedent for UN expansion regarding internet governance.
We are inclined to share those concerns.
The resolution, by the way, was opposed by the United States but supported by Cuba, Algeria, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia reports WeeklyStandard.Com.
UN Web Resolution Is Little Reported

Bush Invented Internet, Gore Loses Again

The Wall Street Journal has a fascinating article as to who really built the internet in response to the claims the government than did it which are being presented by Obama supporters in a futile attempt to defend the President’s bizarre statement  “If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.”

So who did it? It was Bush. Just kidding sorta, Gordon Crovitz traces the internet to Vannevar Bush who initiated the Manhattan Project and founded Raytheon, who wrote an article in 1946 that appeared in The Atlantic that predicted the WorldWideWeb.
Of course, that’s not the invention.
The invention was by Xerox in the 1970s which developed ethernet to link different computer networks (IOW inter-net) which was unlike the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPA) that was just a single network.
Crovitz does note that it was Vincent Cerf who developed TCP/IP, the protocol that is the backbone of the internet — yes Cerf was working with the government when he did it — and Tim Berners-Lee who created Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) that is the backbone of the WorldWideWeb while working at CERN a multinational government-funded organization.
Of course, Berners-Lee was famously using a very non-government-funded NeXT cube — the computer designed by Steve Jobs after he was forced from Apple — when he wrote HTTP.
Perhaps, Obama meant to say that if “the government does something, it is a business that makes it happen.”
Bush Invented Internet, Gore Loses Again
Bush Invented Internet, Gore Loses Again