The latest on the Net Neutrality front – a very good article at WaPo:

Net Neutrality’s Quiet Crusader – washingtonpost.com
Bearing video cameras, laptops and cellphones, a small army of young activists flooded into a recent federal meeting in protest.

Members of public-interest group Free Press weren’t there to support a presidential candidate or decry global warming. The tech-savvy hundreds came to the Federal Communications Commission’s hearing at Harvard Law School last month to push new rules for the Internet.

For the first time, Congress and the FCC are debating wide-reaching Web regulations and policies that would determine how much control cable and telecommunications companies would have over the Internet. The issue has given rise to a new political constituency raised on text messaging and social networking and relies on e-mail blasts and online video clips in its advocacy.

Several of us were able to sit down with one of Senator David Vitter’s staffers not long ago and try to educate him on the issue. While I definitely do NOT agree with everyone involved with Free Press and SaveTheInternet.com or even all the issues Free Press advocates for, Net Neutrality is something we all should be able to agree on. To get involved, sign up here.

No, really:

Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico | The Underwire from Wired.com
Riot police have taken to the streets of several cities in Mexico to … defend emo kids?

A series of attacks on dyed-hair, eye-makeup-wearing emo kids began in early March when several hundred people went on an emo-beating rampage in Querétaro, a town of 1.5 million about 160 miles north of Mexico City.

The next week, shaggy-haired emo teenagers were harassed again by punks and rockabillys in the capital, prompting police protection and a segment on the TV news. Most recently, a Mexican newspaper reported that metal heads and gangsters have warned Tijuana’s emo kids to stay away from the town’s fair next month.

But the so-called emos are organizing, too. Last week, they demonstrated against the violence, pictured above, and Wednesday some met with police in Mexico City.

Granted, it’s kind of a dog bites man story, because, face it, who hasn’t wanted to smack an emo around? And for the emos, it’s really a win-win because that’s one more thing to be miserable about.