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FCC Forgets About, Then Dismisses, Complaint Detailing Verizon’s Long History Of Net Neutrality Violations
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Fox News Commentator Calls For A ‘Backlash’ Against Big Tech… Because Wikileaks Released His Phone Number
UK Moves To Give Regulators Power To Fine Internet Companies 5% Of Revenue If They Can’t Wave A Magic Wand And Make Bad Content Disappear
Courts Again Shoot Down FCC For Ignoring The Law, Making Up Stuff
Ex-Googler Recently Held Up As A ‘Whistleblower’ And ‘Proof’ Of Anti-Conservative Bias At Google, Actually Supported Richard Spencer, Racist Skinheads
Comcast Wireless Joins Verizon In Charging You More For HD Video
Once More With Feeling: Nearly All General Interest News Paywalls Will Fail
Have You Heard? If You Spread ‘Hurtful’ Rumors In China, You’ll Be Thrown Off The Internet For Years
The FCC Finally Starts Taking America’s Shitty Broadband Maps More Seriously
Oversight Report Shows The NSA Did Not Delete All The Inadvertently-Collected Phone Records It Claimed It Had Deleted
Enough With The Myth That Big Tech Is ‘Censoring’ Conservatives AND That The Law Requires Them To Be Neutral
The FTC’s Settlement With Equifax Is Such A Joke, The FTC Is Now Begging You Not To Ask For A Cash Settlement
The DOJ’s Plan To ‘Fix’ The T-Mobile Merger Isn’t Going To Work
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Why A ‘Clever Hack’ Against Nazis Shows How Upload Filters Have Made Copyright Law Even More Broken
Stream-Ripping Sites And YouTube Now Engaged In Whac-A-Mole
Google Finally Settles Lawsuit Over Decade-Old WiFi Snooping Accusations
Police Union Responds To Outing Of Officers’ Bigoted Social Media Posts By Offering To Erase Officers’ Online Presences
UK Parliamentary Committee Calls For The End Of Facial Recognition Tech By The UK Government
For All Of Trump’s Complaints About Social Media ‘Censorship’, The White House Itself Moderates Content Similarly To Social Media Sites
London Metropolitan Police’s Facial Recognition System Is Now Only Misidentifying People 81% Of The Time
FBI, ICE Are Running Facial Recognition Searches Against State Drivers’ Databases
New Study Points Out What A Boon Sports Streaming Piracy Could Be To Leagues
YouTube Begins Blocking Stream-Ripping Sites
Google’s Dead Wrong If It Thinks Broadband Caps Won’t Hurt Game Streaming
Voting Machine Makers Claim The Names Of The Entities That Own Them Are Trade Secrets
Killing Net Neutrality Rules Did Far More Harm Than You Probably Realize
Schools Are Using ‘Aggression Detecting’ Mics That Are Set Off By Coughing, Slamming Locker Doors To Head Off The Next School Shooting
Somerville, Massachusetts Becomes The Second US City To Ban Facial Recognition Tech
The Streaming TV Sector Still Doesn’t Realize Exclusives Will Drive Users Back To Piracy
State Judge Prefers Prior Restraint To The First Amendment, Orders Blogger To Delete Supposedly Defamatory Posts
Another Report Shows The GDPR Benefited Google And Facebook, And Hurt Everyone Else
EU Intellectual Property Office Produces Dumbest Propaganda Film Ever, Pretending Without IP There Is No Creativity
Internet companies that call themselves "platforms" instead of publishers have no special legal protections or obligations under the Communications Decency Act
As The DOJ Continues To Complain About Encryption, Cellebrite (Again) Announces It Can Crack Any IPhone
Sen. Josh Hawley introduces bill that would remove CDA 230 protections for online platforms with 30M+ US MAUs, which FTC could return after paid audit
AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors
Supreme Court Signals Loud And Clear That Social Media Sites Are Not Public Forums That Have To Allow All Speech
Comcast Forgets To Delete Evidence It’s Using Evil Fansubs In Its Streaming Service
Content Moderation Is Impossible: You Can’t Expect Moderators To Understand Satire Or Irony
Google Stadia Is About To Show Everyone Why Broadband Usage Caps Are Bullshit
FCC Pats Itself On The Back For ‘New’ Robocall Plan That Isn’t New, Has No Real Teeth
Amazon, Law Enforcement Joining Forces To Turn Your Front Door Into An Integral Part Of The Surveillance State
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