On stage

• Heads up: We'll be watching White House Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel and Chief Technology Officer Todd Park at TechCrunch Disrupt, speaking at around 10:30.

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• The National Association of Broadcasters is suing in Federal Appeals Court to block an FCC rule requiring that TV stations post political ad data online.

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• The Conservative website Judicial Watch says it has posted documents showing that the Obama administration gave special access to the producers of a feature film on the killing of Bin Laden.

Around the web

• The White House held Twitter office hours with Press Secretary Jay Carney about President Obama's "To Do List" for Congress.

• Buzzfeed plans to open an office in Washington D.C.

• A start-up company plans to announce today that it has raised $200 million to provide ultrahigh-speed Internet service in six communities surrounding research universities across the country.

• FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said he supports usage-based pricing for Internet service. The FCC also may regulate sites like Hulu and YouTube the same way it regulates cable TV companies like Time Warner.

• The inventor of the remote control has died.

• The New York Times wrote about how the S.E.C. has been stepping up its enforcement efforts:
  

  In one of the agency's first efforts, Mr. Khuzami and his boss, Mary L. Schapiro, the chairwoman, sought to tear down the agency's bureaucratic barriers. The S.E.C. had more than 70 tip lines, including e-mail and voice mail, but no central repository. To consolidate the tip system, Ms. Schapiro dispatched a top lieutenant, Stephen L. Cohen, to help create a database from scratch. Now, all tips and referrals - regardless of the source - are put in a single database. S.E.C. employees must put a tip into the system within three days....The overhaul came with an upgrade in technology. The hub of Mr. Sporkin's outfit is a "market watch room," replete with Bloomberg terminals and real-time stock pricing monitors that keep an eye on the markets.

• Legislation proposed by New York state lawmakers would require New York-based websites to "remove any comments posted on his or her website by an anonymous poster unless such anonymous poster agrees to attach his or her name to the post.”

• Icann has restarted its top level domain applications.

• The Boston Globe reports on the role of video trackers in the Massachusetts Senate race between Scott Brown and Elizabeth Warren.

• The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart suggests that the "Occupy movement is going nowhere" and says it has little representation in electoral races.

• The MIT grad student who has made an effort at developing online "truth goggles" explains what he has learned from the experience.

• The EFF and other civil organizations recently requested access to planning documents surrounding the World Conference on International Telecommunications planned for in December by the U.N's International Telecommunication Union. At the conference, several nations are expected to lobby for greater international control over the Internet, which is now governed by organizations based on the United States.

• On Techdirt, Larry Downes argues that copyright laws, like many parking citations, have become a law in name only, especially for younger generations.

• Aereo, an online TV start-up backed by Barry Diller which aims to stream TV broadcasts to mobile or other online devices, has won a partial legal victory has a judge dismissed part of a claim by broadcasters who contend that the service is illegal.

• At a panel discussion, Congressional staffers still seemed to be recovering from the fight over SOPA earlier this year, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “What happened was a misinformation campaign. People were basically misled into contacting Congressmen with claims that were extraordinary. There was some genuine concern, but as for it being a genuine home grown grassroots up-from-the-streets opposition, I beg to differ on that," said Stephanie Moore, the Democrats' chief counsel on the House Judiciary Committee.

• The Navy has introduced a new version of its online gaming project asking users how it can meet future energy demands, with a focus on reducing fossil fuel dependency.

• Google has fixed a search result from the new interface which suggested that Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) had died in November 2004.

• Recently, members of the European Parliament and other EU officials created an "It Gets Better" video in 17 different languages in honor of the International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia.

• AFP profiled a Cambodian activist against sex-slavery and the role social media has played in her advocacy:

  Most recently, [Somaly] Mam kicked up a storm of controversy when she allowed her "old friend," New York Times correspondent Nicholas Kristof, to "live-tweet" a brothel raid in the northern Cambodian town of Anlong Veng in November."Girls are rescued, but still very scared. Youngest looks about 13, trafficked from Vietnam," Kristof wrote to his more than one million followers on the Twitter microblogging website, in remarks that trafficking experts say raised questions of safety and consent ... for Mam, who created the anti-trafficking organisation AFESIP and now runs an eponymous foundation, the benefit of the attention Kristof brings to trafficking issues outweighs the security concerns."Even if you're not tweeting it is also dangerous... but if (Kristof) tweets it, it's better because more people get awareness and understanding," Mam told AFP in an interview during a visit to Vietnam.

• Microsoft said it had taken its StreetSide service showing photographs of German streets offline because of privacy complaints from residents.

• The International Herald Tribune reported how mobile phones are improving the lives of women in India.