Friday, October 23, 2009
News Morning Newsdome: McCain protecting Internet ... for himself
Posted by Bobby Feingold @senorbobby on Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM
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>> Senator and Presidential loser John McCain proposed a new bill, the Internet Freedom Act, that would allow broadband and wireless providers to discriminate and prefer certain traffic, giving those who can pay more better access. McCain hopes to ensure that his constituents alone can view "Nailin' Palin" on high-speed porn while the less fortunate have to wait for it to load. (PC World)
>> Opening in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar is a new Louis Vuitton store, one of the first luxury fashion stores in the region. What Mongolian nomad ISN'T dying for the LV-Stephen Sprouse collab HELLO!? (New York Magazine)
>> After being transferred to house arrest from prison, a 30-year-old Sicilian man asked police to put him back in jail to avoid arguing with his wife. Maybe she was asking for too many Louis Vuitton bags. (Reuters)
>> Gawker reports that while massive lay-offs were going on at Vanity Fair yesterday, among the total scaling back of Conde Nast, VF's editor Graydon Carter was on a private jet to Bermuda. Maybe it was for a story he was doing about overpaid, bad-mannered magazine editors. (Gawker)
>> And finally, Athens, Ga. sweethearts REM have joined a coalition of musical artists against the Guantanamo Bay prison after reports that guards played pop music at incredible volumes to torture the prisoners. And I thought listening to the latest REM album on normal volume was torture enough. (Entertainment Weekly)
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