Leftward Thinking

Learning By Example, Net Neutrality Violations

What is Net Neutrality? Everyone likes to joke that it’s boring and complicated but it’s really neither. While I try to give a good introduction to Net Neutrality, and what violations looks like, in my post The FCC vs. Net Neutrality some people, myself included, learn best from examples. Piggy backing off of a post […]

August 20, 2014 – 4:59 pm | By Greg Epstein @lwThinking | Posted in Net Neutrality | Comments (0)

How “The Lego Movie” is Really About Copyright

This weekend I finally got around to watching The Lego Movie. My watching it was long overdue, I was a Lego fanatic as a kid, and the movie had been recommended to me countless times since its release. Of course I loved it, it’s a really good movie. The kids love it because it’s a […]

August 15, 2014 – 4:42 pm | By Greg Epstein @lwThinking | Posted in Intellectual Property | Tagged The Lego Movie | Comments (4)

Behind the Image is Photo Metadata

I recently got back from a very awesome trip to the Amazon where, among other things, I spent a day climbing up some extremely tall trees to check out the canopy. One of the guides, Leionide, who assisted in this little adventure was kind enough to snap some photos of our climb and let me […]

August 10, 2014 – 3:54 pm | By Greg Epstein @lwThinking | Posted in Privacy | Tagged Metadata | Comments (1)

The War On Brown People: Why My Heart Rages and Sorrows

The issue of colonization, segregation and marginalization of brown people in the United States is a vast and expansive problem. However in the last couple of weeks, several factoids and news stories have emerged that give texture and context to the dimensions of this war. Leaked Photos of Detained Minors First were the leaked photos of […]

June 26, 2014 – 5:19 pm | By Greg Epstein @lwThinking | Posted in Off Topic, Other | Comments (0)

Images of Immigration

Living in Tucson Arizona the impacts of immigration and border militarization are a part of daily life. Over the years friends have been deported, neighboring families have been torn apart and my white privilege is the only thing that keeps me from being harassed by border patrol agents on a regular basis. However for the […]

June 8, 2014 – 6:57 am | By Greg Epstein @lwThinking | Posted in Other | Tagged Immigration | Comments (0)

The Net Neutrality Debate Lacks Imagination

While I find the net neutrality debate extremely important and interesting, I can understand how other people fail to see why they should care about the issue, or how it could effect their lives. I believe that this failure is due to a lack of imagination in the network neutrality debate. The general public has […]

June 2, 2014 – 4:04 pm | By Greg Epstein @lwThinking | Posted in Net Neutrality | Comments (2)

#ResetTheNet (shout out)

Reset The Net is a movement launching June 5th to promote a secure internet to counter the surveillance practices by organizations like the NSA. Check out the video below and get involved at resetthenet.org!

June 1, 2014 – 4:32 pm | By Greg Epstein @lwThinking | Posted in Privacy, Surveillance | Comments (0)

Kevin Glass and Timothy Lee on Bloggingheads

One of my favorite website Bloggingheads.tv hosted a great conversation several weeks ago between Kevin Glass of Townhall and Timothy Lee of Vox on the topic of Net Neutrality (of which I’ve written most frequently about here and here). The conversation was very interesting, Timothy Lee is one of the best on the topic (and is […]

May 22, 2014 – 3:19 pm | By Greg Epstein @lwThinking | Posted in Net Neutrality | Comments (0)

FCC vs Net Neutrality (Part 2)

On May 15th FCC chairmann Tom Wheeler officially unveiled his new ‘net neutrality’ proposal and the commission voted on a partisan 3–2 line to move forward with the proposal kicking off a three month public comment session before a final vote takes place (take action below). I recently wrote a very thorough rundown of the net […]

May 22, 2014 – 11:15 am | By Greg Epstein @lwThinking | Posted in Net Neutrality, Open Internet | Tagged Comcast, FCC, Verizon | Comments (0)

The FCC vs Net Neutrality

O n April 23rd the Wall Street Journal reported that the FCC was preparing to release new Open Internet (aka Net Neutrality) Rules that would allow for broadband providers to offer paid ‘fast lanes’. The leak of this information has lead to a media firestorm forcing FCC chairman Tom Wheeler has scrambled to clarify his […]

May 14, 2014 – 8:31 pm | By Greg Epstein @lwThinking | Posted in Net Neutrality, Open Internet | Tagged Comcast, FCC, Verizon | Comments (3)