GOP tries to block state net neutrality laws and allow paid prioritization

Enlarge / Protestors object to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai’s plan to eliminate net neutrality rules before Pai’s appearance at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, on May 5, 2017. (credit: Getty Images | Chip Somodevilla) Republicans in Congress are continuing to push a net neutrality law that would preempt state net neutrality rules and […]

‘Alt-right’ Generation Identity head to hit UK streets after anti-fascists block ‘free speech talk’

Far-right activists have vowed to hold a public event in London, after places across the UK barred them. Generation Identity representatives said that venues were “threatened” into rejecting their Young Independence Conference. Co-Leader of Generation Identity Austria, Martin Sellner, announced he will be giving a speech at Hyde Park’s Speakers’ Corner this weekend. The original […]

Russian Embassy ‘captures’ entire block in Washington, DC… in amazing world of fake news

Russia’s Embassy in Washington has been accused of taking over “an entire block” in a suspected “parking fraud” by a Twitter user. The unfounded allegations promptly became a “fact” when media outlets picked up the story. The controversy surrounding the parking spaces erupted earlier this week when a vigilant Twitter user notified Washington’s District Department […]

‘Special interests block reform to give fathers more rights’ – National Parents Organization to RT

The founder of the National Parents Organization has told RT that special interests in the law industry are blocking reforms that would give fathers more rights to see their children following divorce. There are over one million divorces every year in the United States. The system for dealing with family break-ups was introduced by President […]

‘Channel Zero’ Creator Nick Antosca on the Creepypasta Origins of ‘Butcher’s Block’

Channel Zero, the Syfy horror anthology series inspired by Creeypasta stories and created by Nick Antosca, returns for its third disturbing season this week. Channel Zero: Butcher’s Block focuses on a pair of sisters who move to a new town and quickly discover a series of strange, supernatural staircases that appear in the town park. As if […]

Cars block the road to a renegotiated NAFTA

ROBERT LIGHTHIZER, the United States Trade Representative, wants renegotiation of the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to speed up. When the sixth round of talks ended on January 29th with only three chapters agreed, he griped: “We owe it to our citizens, who are operating in a state of uncertainty, to move much faster.” But […]

GM Reportedly Rushes to Block Ignition-Switch Settlement, Still Faces Billions in Liabilities [UPDATE]

– UPDATE, 1/24/2018: In a ruling last week, U.S. bankruptcy judge Martin Glenn said that while the trust “acted in bad faith” during negotiations, the settlement was nonenforceable since there were neither signatures nor any proof of an oral agreement between the parties. Hagens Berman, the firm alleging economic harm and consumer-protection violations, would have […]

DuckDuckGo upgrades apps to block hidden ad trackers

DuckDuckGo has given its browser extensions and apps a boost with more features meant to protect you from prying digital eyes. To start with, they now come with a built-in tracker blocker that prevents ad networks from following you around and collecting data on what you’re doing. It even lists all the hidden networks it […]

Prison officers block jails in France after blade attack by major Al-Qaeda convict (PHOTOS)

Hundreds of prison officers have blocked access to dozens of jails across France in a bid to demand tighter security around dangerous inmates after three guards were injured in an attack by a terrorist convict last week. “We are afraid of dying today at prisons,” a trade union chief participating in the protest, Emmanuel Baudin, […]