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The EU Makes It Clear That ‘Zero Rating’ Violates Net Neutrality
FCC Keeps Using Bogus Data To Claim It’s Closing The ‘Digital Divide’
DOJ Continues Its Quest To Kill Net Neutrality (And Consumer Protection In General) In California
Over At Politico, The AT&T Monopoly Gives Tips On Fixing A Broadband Problem It Spent Thirty Years Creating
Auto Industry Pushes Bullshit Claim That ‘Right To Repair’ Laws Aid Sexual Predators
White House supposedly blocked Walmart from buying Tiktok because it would prove its rationale for forcing a deal was bullshit
U.S. Cable Broadband Monopolies Close In On 70% Broadband Market Share
As Speakers At The RNC Whined About Big Tech Bias, You Could Only Watch The Full Convention Because Of ‘Big Tech’
SS7 cellular network flaw being exploited to drain bank accounts
Apple Goes In Even Harder Against Prepear Over Non-Apple Logo
Just As The Postal Service Is Being Dismantled To Prevent The Handling Of Mail In Ballots, It Tries To Patent Blockchain Voting By Mail
What A Shock: Scammers Are Abusing YouTube’s Notice And Takedown System With DMCA Claims
Trump, Big Telecom Continue Quest To Ban States From Protecting Broadband Consumers
Content moderation at scale is impossible to do well (2019)
Why Are Currently No Ads on Techdirt? Apparently Google Thinks We're Dangerous
In 10 Years Of Existence, The Long-Running French Farce Known As Hadopi Has Imposed Just €87,000 In Fines, But Cost Taxpayers €82 Million
Congress to consider National Right To Repair law for first time
State Department Announces That Great Firewall For The US; Blocks Chinese Apps & Equipment
Twitter About To Be Hit With A ~$250 Million Fine For Using Your Two Factor Authentication Phone Numbers/Emails For Marketing
DHS Obtained Protesters’ Encrypted Messages, Used Them To Craft ‘Intelligence’ Reports
AT&T Loses Another 1 Million TV Customers As Cord Cutting (And Greed) Take A Toll
After 100 Years As A Bullying Gatekeeper, AT&T Pivots To Whining Unironically About Bullying Gatekeepers
Study: Community Broadband Drives Competition, Lowering Costs
Charter Spectrum’s Bullshit ‘Broadcast TV’ Fee Soars To $16.45 Per Month
Copyright Trolling Evolved: Okularity Accused Of DMCAing Social Media Accounts, Then Demanding MILLIONS To Reinstate
House Passes Massive Broadband Bill That Surprisingly Doesn’t Suck
Court Shoots Down AT&T, Comcast Attempt To Crush Maine Privacy Law
ISPs To Bring Back Usage Caps After Brief Pandemic Hiatus
Despite pretending to be a free speech alternative to Twitter, Parler is taking down content and shutting down accounts
AT&T Ditches $15 TV Service It Used As Regulator Bait To Seal Time Warner Merger
Goldman Sachs Created a Font, but You're Forbidden by Its License to Critique GS
Terrible, Dangerous EARN IT Act Set To Move Forward In The Senate; Attack On Both Encryption And Free Speech Online
The Fastest ISP In America Is Community Owned And Operated
AT&T Says Being Misleading About ‘Unlimited’ Data Plans Was Ok, Because Reporters Told Consumers It Was Being Misleading
No, Google didn't demonetize The Federalist and Zero Hedge, as NBC's misleading story claims, and it is not an example of anti-conservative bias
Copyright Blocks Interview Of Protesters Because Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ Was Playing In The Background
Net Neutrali-what? AT&T’s New Streaming Service Won’t Count Against Its Broadband Caps. But Netflix Will.
Arizona AG Sues Google For Location Data Failures, After Telecom Got A Wrist Slap For Far Worse Behavior
Trump's EO has limited power, as content created by a platform, like Twitter's labels, is not covered by Section 230 and the FCC lacks authority to enforce EO
Arkansas Can’t Secure Financial Assistance Site So Governor Decides To Call The Person Discovering The Breach A Criminal
New Study Tries, Fails, To Claim Community Broadband Is An Inevitable Boondoggle
Beware Of Op/Eds Falsely Claiming The US Internet Only Works During A Pandemic Because Lobbyists Neutered The FCC
Despite qualms from some experts, Google and Apple's exposure notification API enables the most privacy-respecting approach to contact tracing in history
NYT's proprietary ads platform plan has been misread as protecting user data more than Facebook and Google do, yet NYT will still sell targeted ads using data
Covid-19 Just Triggered The Worst Quarter Ever For Cable TV ‘Cord Cutting’
No, Congress Can’t Fix The Broken US Broadband Market In A Mad Dash During A Pandemic
Amazon Sued For Saying You’ve ‘Bought’ Movies That It Can Take Away From You
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