Erin Mershon
Politico Falsely Frames Opposition to Obama Admin's Transfer of ICANN
March 18th, 2014 4:16 PM
One of the more annoying aspects of establishment press coverage of many controversial issues is the outlets' tendency to act as if opposition to many things (really almost anything) which advance the left's agenda springs exclusively from Republicans. One obvious example is abortion, as if you can't be pro-life and libertarian or liberal (see: Nat Hentoff).
Another budding example has to do…
U.S. ‘Transitioning’ Domain Name Functions to ‘Global Community
March 14th, 2014 8:12 PM
In a late Friday afternoon release, the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) announced its intent "to transition key Internet domain name functions to the global multistakeholder community." The statement is full of the kind of dense bureaucratic language one tends to see when the agency is doing something really important but…