- Boston mayor skips St. Patrick's parade over exclusion of gay group—Instead, there was a 'diversity float'.
- Guinness pulls out of NY's St. Patrick's parade over ban on gays
- Irish ask: What's the big deal about letting gays in St. Pat's parades?
- Fox News' Defense Of Anti-Gay Discrimination At NYC's St. Patrick's Day Parade
- PSA: Paddy Not Patty
- Compare the NSA's Facebook Malware Denial to its Own Secret Documents
- Intel panel 'very close' on killing NSA phone programs Politico
- IBM denies links with NSA spying program
- Lawmaker 'taken aback' by CIA's tough response to spying allegations
- U.S. intelligence officials to monitor federal employees with security clearances
- US defends surveillance before UN rights panel—How the mighty have fallen.
- The US is an 'enemy of the internet'
- U.S. to Cede Its Oversight of Addresses on Internet—"An international group, not yet determined, will take over the task of assigning names and numbers for Internet addresses." This may lead to more censorship pressure from governments cracking down on free speech. NYT
- EU: Data Protection, NSA Votes Won; Net Neutrality Next
- Russia: Vladimir Putin stamps on his citizens again, this time with Internet censorship
- Australia: Attorney General's new war on encrypted web services—They want everyone's web browsing history.
- Philippines: Block child porn websites, NTC orders Internet providers—Start of the slippery slope.
- No 10 aide arrested over child porn: Police quiz 62-year-old who advised Cameron on web filters and was tipped for peerage
- The Best Story Yet About The UK's Online Porn Filters
- Children can turn off net filters, report finds
- UK pornographers launch new site in response to 'overblocking' internet filters
- UK gov wants 'unsavoury' web content censored
- Turns Out UK Government Only Wishes It Had Special Powers To Censor YouTube
- SOPA backers seek to restrict online rights again -- but this time outside the law
- The Rebranding Of SOPA: Now Called 'Notice And Staydown'
- Hollywood's Copyright Lobbyists Are Like Exes Who Won't Give Up
- Copyright Group: Chilling Effects DMCA Archive is "Repugnant"—"If it wasn't for the Chilling Effects DMCA clearing house the actions of those abusing the DMCA would go largely unreported. Still, the Copyright Alliance doesn't like the site, this week describing the information resource as "repugnant" to the DMCA. Unsurprisingly, Chilling Effects sees things differently."
- U.S. Court Orders Seizure of "DVD Ripping" Software Domains and Funds
- Popcorn Time Is Back
- Mobile phone 'bill shock' driving victims into debt, Citizens Advice warns—"Charity says 130,000 people contacted it last year for help with unexpected high bills, often caused by error or roaming charges."
- Legislation abolishing roaming charges goes through European parliament—"Mobile phone operators say that domestic charges may increase as a result of ban, which will come into force in December 2015."
- EU Parliament votes in favour of universal mobile phone charger—Applies to plugs, but manufacturers still want to lock in the connector.
- Telecom Giants Drag Their Feet on Broadband for the Whole Country
- Nearly one in three American households have no choice when it comes to their internet
- Two simple maps show us how Comcast is about to take over the country
- $5 discount to give up unlimited data? Time Warner Cable customers say "no"
- If You Want To Fix U.S. Broadband Competition, Start By Killing State-Level Protectionist Laws Written By Duopolists
- Google's gigabit gambit isn't going away—"Opinion: Google Fiber appears to be gaining momentum."
- San Antonio City Council OKs Google Fiber contract
- Tesla sales will be banned in New Jersey starting April 1st—So much for Christie and the 'free market'.
- Auto dealers push legislation to keep Tesla Motors out of Ohio
- Washington DC: Legislature acts to allow Tesla to sell cars directly—"Tesla can continue to sell cars directly to customers under amended bills passed in the state House and Senate, but it will be the only car manufacturer with that privilege."
- New Jersey Bans Tesla to Ensure Buying a Car Will Always Suck
- Tesla CEO Rips New Jersey Over 'Backroom Deal' Auto Sales Ban
- Car Dealers Are Terrified of Tesla's Plan to Eliminate Oil Changes
- Tesla's 'Gigafactory' sets off 4-state bidding war
- Asiana Airlines Penalized Over Crash—"In the first penalty of its kind, federal transportation officials on Tuesday docked Asiana Airlines $500,000 for failing to promptly contact passengers' families and keep them informed about their loved ones after a deadly crash last year at San Francisco International airport."
- Airline Pet Handlers Speak Out Against Alleged Animal Neglect—"Two whistleblowers describe chronic, dangerous neglect in United's PetSafe program."
- Louisiana man fined $600 after drunken fight with wife aboard flight
- Why 2,000 passengers just rioted at an airport in China
- Southwest passenger screams for booze, throws gang signs 'for Jesus,' forces PDX landing, court documents show
