The Heartland Institute

U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) are attempting to stem the online sale of illegal drugs by encouraging the Justice Department and Drug Enforcement Agency to investigate Bitcoin and Silk Road. The untraceable peer-to-peer Internet currency instrument Bitcoin is used on many sites, but is also used to ...

Review of The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding From You , by Eli Pariser, Penguin USA, 304 pages, 2011 $25.95 The Filter Bubble is a salvo fired over the epistemological challenges wrought by Internet filters. Overwrought is more like it. Upon reading The Filter Bubble , I was reminded of the equally overwrought Zager ...

Washington lawmakers continue to grapple with the potential interference to global positioning satellites posed by provider LightSquared’s long-term-evolution terrestrial wireless broadband network. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has stated the FCC will not allow LightSquared to launch commercially until ...

Review of Search & Destroy: Why You Can’t Trust Google, Inc., by Scott Cleland with Ira Brodsky, Telescope Books, St. Louis, Missouri, 2011, ISBN-10: 0980038324, $28.95, 329 pages. Even paranoiacs have real enemies, goes the adage. I’m inclined to agree, especially after reading Search & Destroy: Why You Can’t Trust Google, Inc ...

AT& T says its proposed $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile will bring LTE (long-term evolution) coverage to 97 percent of the United States representing an additional 55 million customers and make it the largest wireless network in the United States. The deal, however, faces months of scrutiny from Congress, the Justice Department ...