Month: July 2009

Freedom of the Internet

The Post endorses a plan to fund the Global Internet Freedom Consortium. Its software allows users to evade online censors by connecting to a remote server that switches IP addresses nearly once a second to avoid being traced. But increased demand for the Internet amid recent turmoil has been overloading the consortium’s servers just when […]

Bailout Transparency

This Times editorial mentions Sen. Inouye’s contact with a bank.  Not just any bank.  The Senator owns hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock in the bank.  After the call, the bank got $135 million in Troubled Asset Relief Program funds, according to the editorial. Like so much of the recession challenge, lawmakers’ lobbying for […]