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| Sep 22, 2026 | Broadband Breakfast to Convene '250 Years of American Independence and 150 Years of American Telecommunications' | Online event at 12 Noon ET on Oct. 1, supplements 35-lesson online course about 150 Years of Telecommunications, and what it says about broadband and AI WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, September 22, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Broadband Break... |
| Sep 20, 2026 | Federal Broadband Grant Fine Print Would Strip California Net Neutrality for 14 Years | By Clayton Lewis
Published: Sep 20 2026, 2:47 AM EDT
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| Sep 19, 2026 | Carriers and Cable Clash over 4.4 GHz Spectrum as WRC-27 Looms in Shanghai | By Jackie Manning
Published: Sep 19 2026, 8:02 AM EDT
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| Sep 11, 2026 | US Carriers Back Chinese Telecom Ban but Warn Interconnection Scope Could Wall Off Global Traffic | By Zachary Chambers
Published: Sep 11 2026, 5:16 PM EDT
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| Aug 18, 2026 | Elveo Mobile Launches With Spectrum SpaceX and AST Cannot Borrow or Buy | By Terrence Hill
Published: Aug 18 2026, 10:13 AM EDT
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| Aug 15, 2026 | Charter-Cox Merger Cleared; California Mandated $310M in Upgrades FCC Never Required | By Jackie Manning
Published: Aug 15 2026, 8:45 AM EDT
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| Aug 4, 2026 | HughesNet Files Chapter 11: Starlink Took Half Its Rural Customers in Six Years | By Adrian Parham
Published: Aug 04 2026, 7:16 AM EDT
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| Jul 28, 2026 | T-Mobile Outage Drags Down Mint, Boost, Google Fi: Root Cause Still Hidden | By Terrence Hill
Published: Jul 28 2026, 9:05 AM EDT
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| Jul 23, 2026 | Comcast Crosses 10 Million Wireless Lines, Peacock Posts First-Ever Quarterly Profit | By Philip Nickell
Published: Jul 23 2026, 3:24 PM EDT
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| Jul 23, 2026 | Trump Nominates Adam Candeub, Big Tech Critic With No Antitrust Trial Record, to Lead DOJ Division | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Jul 23 2026, 6:36 AM EDT
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| Jul 22, 2026 | FCC Scraps Decades-Old Satellite Rules, But SpaceX’s Million-Satellite AI Plan Waits in Line | By Jackie Manning
Published: Jul 22 2026, 7:33 AM EDT
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| Jul 16, 2026 | T-Mobile Abandoned Written Rate Promises for Millions: What Customers Can Do | By Devin Culbertson
Published: Jul 16 2026, 7:29 AM EDT
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| Jul 15, 2026 | Budget Air’s Last Wi-Fi Holdout Falls: Frontier Signs Starlink Deal for 1,000+ Planes | By Maxwell Templeton
Published: Jul 15 2026, 3:48 PM EDT
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| Jul 12, 2026 | Dish Wireless Bankruptcy: Court Slows Fast Exit as Tower Creditors Seek $5.5B | By Brandon Fisher
Published: Jul 12 2026, 10:58 AM EDT
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| Jul 10, 2026 | AFC-Enabled 6 GHz Fixed Wireless Clears 50-Subscriber, 9.8-Mile Rural Mark | By Mark Rutherford
Published: Jul 10 2026, 2:41 PM EDT
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| Jul 10, 2026 | FCC Sets July 22 Vote on C-Band Auction Designed to Anchor America’s 6G Era | By Maxwell Templeton
Published: Jul 10 2026, 4:24 PM EDT
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| Jul 10, 2026 | FCC General Counsel Channels Founding Fathers To Falsely Claim First Amendment Allows Banning Porn | Another senior Trump administration official is gleefully showing off his true colors: The current general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published an opinion column with the Heritage Foundation’s news outlet The Da... |
| Jul 7, 2026 | Corruption Showdown: Verizon, SpaceX Square Off Over Cell Phone Unlocking | Earlier this year I noted how the Trump FCC, at the direct request of wireless phone giants, destroyed popular phone unlocking rules that would have made it easier and cheaper to switch wireless carriers. The rules, applied via spectrum acq... |
| Jun 23, 2026 | House KIDS Act Deal Drops KOSA Duty of Care, Adds Age Verification for All Users | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Jun 23 2026, 06:23 AM EDT
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| Jun 8, 2026 | T-Mobile 5G Home Internet: Rely Plan Gets Speed Cap of 354 Mbps for First Time | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: Jun 08 2026, 06:29 AM EDT
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| Jun 4, 2026 | Broadband Breakfast to Mark America250 With Telecom150, a Series on American Telecom | Online event series runs June 17, June 24, and July 1, tracing American communications from Bell's first telephone call to the age of AI WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, June 4, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Broadband Breakfast is hosting a thre... |
| Apr 28, 2026 | The Role of EU-Japan Collaboration in Trans-Arctic Cable Development | Back to Publications
Ursula von der Leyen, António da Costa and Kaja Kallas paid an official visit to Japan as part of a larger EU delegation to Osaka Expo 2025 and held a number of high level meetings including one with Japan’s former Prim... |
| Apr 3, 2026 | The Trump Administration Is Trying To Steal $21 BIllion Earmarked For Better Broadband | A quick refresher: there was originally $42.5 billion in broadband grants headed to the states thanks to the 2021 infrastructure bill most Republicans voted against (yet routinely try to take credit for among their constituents).
But after ... |
| Mar 16, 2026 | Wednesday's BEAD Implementation Summit Will Provide Answers to Questions About Broadband | BEAD Implementation Summit 2026 convenes top state leaders and industry voices to unpack NTIA’s new direction, tech tradeoffs, and how remaining funds get spent WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, March 16, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Broadband B... |
| Mar 12, 2026 | ‘Must-See’ Broadband Policy Event at National Press Club on March 18, 2026 | BEAD Implementation Summit features Fireside Chat between NTIA’s Arielle Roth and Breakfast Media's Drew Clark, plus panels on states, tech, funds & financing. WASHINGTON, DC, UNITED STATES, March 12, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- For poli... |
| Oct 9, 2025 | Republicans Are Trying To Make Government Efforts To Help Poor People Afford Broadband Illegal | “Right wing activism organizations posing as consumer rights groups are trying to make it illegal for the federal government to try and help poor, rural Americans afford broadband,” is a sentence I just had to write.
Quick background: the $... |
| Aug 1, 2025 | Trump Infrastructure Bill Revamp To Net Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk Billions In New Subsidies For Broadband They Can’t Really Deliver | There’s $42.5 billion in broadband grants are headed to the states thanks to the 2021 infrastructure bill most Republicans voted against (yet routinely try to take credit for among their constituents).
But Republicans, despite a supposed fe... |
| Jun 18, 2025 | The Dish Network Debacle: A Cautionary Tale of Corporate Greed and Regulatory Capture | In the world of telecommunications, the tale of Dish Network serves as a stark reminder of the dangers of corporate greed and regulatory capture. Once hailed as a potential player in the 5G revolution, Dish has become a cautionary tale of f... |
| Jun 16, 2025 | The Trump Admin’s Dish Network Con Reaches Its Ultimate Conclusion: Failure, Bankruptcy, And Rich New Spectrum Holdings For Elon Musk | Back in 2019, the Trump DOJ and FCC cobbled together a dumb plan to try and hide the problems created by their rubber stamping of the competition-eroding T-Mobile and Sprint merger: they’d pretend they were helping satellite TV company Dish... |
| Jun 13, 2025 | Turbulent Times: The Intersection of Politics and Markets Amid Global Tensions | The world is a stage, and right now, the spotlight is on two main acts: the political theater in Washington and the financial markets reacting to geopolitical upheaval. As the curtain rises, we see a cast of characters that includes unquali... |
| Jun 9, 2025 | Unqualified Right Wing Zealot Gavin Wax Poised To Be Nominated To Trump’s FCC | Last week, Republican FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington abruptly announced that he would be stepping down from the FCC. Simington gave all of two-days notice of his departure, which was odd not only because of the short notice, but because ... |
| May 23, 2025 | The Child Tax Credit: A Double-Edged Sword for American Families | In the intricate dance of American politics, the child tax credit has emerged as a key player. Recently, House Republicans pushed a budget bill that promises to boost the maximum child tax credit to $2,500. This move is part of a larger spe... |
| May 22, 2025 | States Forced To Kill Millions In Rural Broadband Investment After Trump Illegally Kills The Digital Equity Act… Simply For Having The Word ‘Equity’ In It | Last week we noted how Trump illegally declared he was killing the $2.75 billion Digital Equity Act. The law, passed as part of the infrastructure bill, was slated to bring millions in new broadband grants and digital literacy tools to Amer... |
| May 19, 2025 | New Law Would Add New Tax To Your Netflix Bill So AT&T And Comcast Execs Can Get Richer | Telecom lobbyists have been working overtime for decades in the US and EU, trying to get policymakers to support the idea of “Big Tech” paying “Big Telecom” billions of additional dollars for no coherent reason. It’s what started the net ne... |
| Apr 25, 2025 | FTC, Hoping To Prop Up Admin Myth They Still Care About Consumer Protection, Sues Uber For Making It Hard To Cancel | A few days ago I talked about how the Trump administration is desperate to present the illusion it still cares about consumer protection and “antitrust reform.” Via executive order, regulatory capture, DOGE cuts, and a rightward-lurching co... |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Trump FCC Prepares To Destroy Whatever’s Left Of Media Consolidation Limits | During Trump 1.0, his captured FCC took at absolute hatchet to what was left of media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades of bipartisan collaboration, prohibited local broadcasters and media from growing too large, ... |
| Apr 7, 2025 | Federal Consumer Protection Is Dead. The Fate Of Net Neutrality Warned You It Was Coming. | A fusion of authoritarianism and corporatism is destroying what’s left of U.S. federal consumer protection.
Whether by dodgy Supreme Court ruling, executive order, or captured regulators, the U.S. right, often in lockstep with consolidated ... |
| Apr 4, 2025 | Trump Earlobe Nibbler Brendan Carr Faces Inquiry Into His Broad Abuse Of FCC Power | If you think back to Brendan Carr’s first tenure as a regular Commissioner at the FCC, he was constantly warning about “FCC overreach.” We couldn’t have privacy rules or net neutrality rules protecting consumers from Comcast, he said, becau... |
| Mar 31, 2025 | Tariffs and Tensions: The Ripple Effect on South Africa’s Automotive Industry | The automotive industry in South Africa is facing a storm. A recent announcement from the Trump administration has sent shockwaves through the sector. A 25% tariff on foreign-made vehicles and parts is now in play. This move raises alarms a... |
| Mar 27, 2025 | Under Cover From Other Trumpy Bullshit, FCC’s Carr Quietly Starts Rubber Stamping AT&T And Comcast’s Policy Wishlist | When Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr was selected last November, I was quick to point out that the U.S. press was completely disinterested in what this meant for stuff like broadband consumer protection. Outlets at the time were quick to push q... |
| Mar 3, 2025 | 15 Republican AGs Urge The Supreme Court To Make Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People Illegal | The FCC runs an $8 billion federal subsidy program to help bring phone and broadband services to lower income homes and schools called the Universal Service Fund. The program was historically a bipartisan thing, until the extremist Trump ad... |
| Feb 28, 2025 | National Politics | Already-lagging broadband program faces more uncertainty under Trump | Congress awarded California $1.8 billion to ensure households get access to high-speed internet as part of the $42.45 billion BEAD program, created under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021.
All 50 states have had their initi... |
| Feb 27, 2025 | The Trump Admin Thinks Affordable Fiber Broadband Is ‘Woke’ | It’s understandably not going to get the same attention as the dismantling of numerous government agencies at the hands of rich unelected manbabies, but the Trump administration is also taking aim at all the promising parts of the 2021 infr... |
| Feb 26, 2025 | FCC Boss Brendan Carr Wants You To Know He’s Having A Great Time Trampling Free Speech, Attacking Civil Rights, And Destroying All Broadband Consumer Protection | We’ve noted repeatedly how new Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr is a Trump bootlicker of the highest order. He’s also busy illegally leveraging FCC power to trample the First Amendment and bully media companies that aren’t kissing Trump’s ass. A... |
| Feb 6, 2025 | New York's Broadband Law: A Battle Against Telecom Giants | In the digital age, access to the internet is as vital as electricity. Yet, in New York State, a new law aimed at providing affordable broadband to low-income residents is facing an uphill battle. The law mandates that major Internet Servic... |
| Feb 6, 2025 | Trump’s NTIA Pick Prepares To Redirect $42.5 Billion In Infrastructure Bill Broadband Grants To Trump Cronies | It’s understandably not going to get the same attention as the dismantling of numerous government agencies at the hands of rich unelected manbabies, but the Trump administration is also taking aim at all the promising parts of the 2021 infr... |
| Feb 3, 2025 | Big Telecom Again Begs Trump Supreme Court To Kill State Laws Requiring They (Gasp) Provide Affordable Broadband To Poor People | During peak COVID lockdowns in 2021, New York State passed a law requiring that big ISPs (with over 20k users) offer low-income residents 25 Mbps broadband for $15. It wasn’t a huge ask; it costs major ISPs little to nothing to provide that... |
| Jan 27, 2025 | New FCC Boss Brendan Carr Is Big Mad The Biden FCC Tried To Shore Up Telecom Cybersecurity Rules After Embarrassing Industry Hack | Late last year eight major U.S. telecoms were the victim of a massive intrusion by Chinese hackers who managed to spy on public U.S. officials for months. The “Salt Typhoon” hack was so severe, the intruders spent much of the last year root... |
| Dec 9, 2024 | Trump 2.0 To Slather Elon Musk’s Starlink With Billions In Taxpayer Subsidies It Doesn’t Deserve | SpaceX’s Starlink service can be an absolute game changer for those completely out of range of broadband access. Getting several hundred megabits per second in the middle of nowhere is a decidedly good thing, assuming you can afford the $12... |
| Dec 4, 2024 | Senator Ernst Wants To Kill Billions In Broadband Infrastructure Grants For No Coherent Reason | The 2021 infrastructure bill is poised to deliver $42.5 billion in broadband subsidies to the states under a program called Broadband Equity, Access, And Deployment (BEAD). This program has been slow sledding, because America’s broadband ma... |
| Nov 26, 2024 | Republicans: Helping Poor People And Minorities Afford Broadband Is Illegal Now, Sorry | We’ve noted more than once that the 2021 infrastructure bill is poised to deliver $42.5 billion in broadband subsidies to the states. A lot of that money will be thrown in the lap of incumbents with long histories of empty promises, but a l... |
| Oct 10, 2024 | U.S. Cellular Tells The FCC It Has To Merge With T-Mobile Because U.S. Wireless Is Just Too Gosh Darn Competitive | Back before T-Mobile merged with Sprint you might recall that academics, consumer groups, and beat reporters like myself warned that the deal would immediately result in less competition, higher prices, and a whole bunch of layoffs. Capture... |
| Sep 26, 2024 | AT&T, T-Mobile Embrace ‘Open Access’ Fiber After Years Of Opposition | Two years ago, Techdirt’s Copia Institute released a report discussing how open access fiber networks were a potential path toward boosting fiber competition in the United States. Such networks, sometimes community owned, involve collaborat... |
| Sep 24, 2024 | T-Mobile Leans On Recent Supreme Court Chevron Ruling To Insist The FCC Can’t Require All Phones Be Unlocked | Last July the FCC announced it was moving forward with plans that should make unlocking your mobile phone easier than ever. According to the FCC announcement, the agency, with broad and bipartisan public support, has been working on new rul... |
| Sep 11, 2024 | GOP Holds Show Hearing To Complain About Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People | Over the next six months, states are poised to receive more than $42.5 billion in taxpayer subsidies to help fund broadband rollouts around the country. A lot of this money is getting dumped into the laps of big telecom monopolies with a lo... |
| Aug 27, 2024 | Plintron USA Focuses on Lifeline Program Expansion and Advocates for ACP Revival at Upcoming Trade Expo | Following withdrawal of Affordable Connectivity Program -ACP funding, Plintron is amplifying its focus on Lifeline Program & advocating for revival of ACP BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES, August 27, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Plintr... |
| Aug 14, 2024 | The 5G Mirage: Why U.S. Wireless Is Stuck in the Slow Lane | 5G was supposed to be the golden ticket. A leap into a world of speed, efficiency, and innovation. It promised smart cities, remote surgeries, and robots at our beck and call. But the reality? A disappointing echo of those grand claims. The... |
| Aug 13, 2024 | Report: Real World 5G Signal Availability Is Pathetic At AT&T (12%) And Verizon (7.7%) | Fifth-generation wireless (5G) was supposed to change the world. According to wireless carriers and gear makers, not only was it supposed to bring about the “fourth industrial revolution,” it was supposed to usher forth amazing new smart ci... |
| Jul 19, 2024 | The Ongoing Battle for Net Neutrality: Telecom Industry Strikes Back Against Consumer Protections | In a recent development, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a temporary hold on the implementation of popular net neutrality rules, marking a potential victory for the telecom industry in their efforts to dismantle crucial consum... |
| Jul 19, 2024 | GOP ‘Investigates’ NTIA For Wanting To Make Broadband Affordable To Poor People | We’ve noted a few times that states will soon receive more than $42.5 billion in taxpayer funded broadband subsidies courtesy of the 2021 infrastructure bill. A lot of that money will go to big giant monopolies with terrible track records o... |
| Jul 17, 2024 | Sixth Circuit Blocks Popular Net Neutrality Rules From Taking Effect | We recently noted how the telecom industry, with the help of the recent Chevron ruling, was gearing up to deliver what it hopes will be the killing blow to popular net neutrality protections. Protections designed to prevent telecom monopoli... |
| Jul 11, 2024 | Big Telecom Prepares For The Final Killing Blow Against Net Neutrality | Back in April the Biden FCC once again voted along party lines to restore net neutrality rules stripped away by the Trump FCC in a flurry of sleazy industry behavior that included using fake and dead people to create the illusion of public ... |
| Jun 24, 2024 | Republicans Are Angry The FCC Admitted Broadband Deployment Discrimination Exists | Last December I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring the FCC’s long overdue effort to stop race and class discrimination in broadband deployment. For decades, big telecoms have not only refused to evenly upgrade broadband in low income a... |
| Jun 6, 2024 | Big Telecom Again Takes Net Neutrality To Court, But Faces Long Odds | Back in April the Biden FCC finally got around to restoring both net neutrality rules, and the agency’s Title II authority over telecom providers. The modest rules, as we’ve covered extensively, prevent big telecom giants from abusing their... |
| May 1, 2024 | End of internet subsidy threatens telehealth access | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
Millions of low-income Americans may find it harder to see health care providers virtually after federal subsidies for high-speed internet expired Tuesday.
The big picture: Many of the 23 million hous... |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Industry Voices: WISP industry 'hot as ever' | Industry Voices are op-eds from industry experts or analysts invited to contribute by Fierce staff. They do not represent the opinions of Fierce.
As of 2021, there were an estimated 2,800 fixed wireless-centric ISPs serving 6.9 million subs... |
| Dec 14, 2023 | Republicans Are Mad The FCC Rejected Elon Musk’s Attempt To Get A Billion Dollars In Subsidies To Deliver Pricey Satellite Broadband To Some Traffic Medians | You might recall that Elon Musk claims to hate taxpayer subsidies. They should all be “deleted.” Except for the subsidies given to his companies (often for doing nothing), of course. |
| Aug 3, 2023 | Telecom Activists Aren’t Impressed By The FCC’s ‘Nutrition Label’ For Broadband | For the better part of the decade, the generally feckless FCC has been trying to require that broadband ISPs be a little more honest about broadband fees and limits at the point of sale. So they cooked up the idea of a “nutrition label for ... |
| Jul 26, 2023 | After FCC Debacle, Gigi Sohn Shifts Focus To Challenging Comcast, AT&T With Community-Built Broadband Networks | Last March, popular telecom and media reformer Gigi Sohn’s appointment to the FCC fell apart, after telecom and media giants (with the GOP’s help) waged a year long lobbying and propaganda campaign falsely framing her as a radical (The Verg... |
| Jun 7, 2023 | $400 Million Later And The FCC Is JUST Starting To Map Broadband Accurately. Sort Of. | We’ve noted for decades how, despite all the political lip service paid toward “bridging the digital divide” (and the billions in subsidies thrown at telecom giants to solve the problem), the U.S. never had any real idea where broadband is ... |
| Apr 19, 2023 | ‘Lovejoy’s Law’ And Tech Moral Panics | One of the central arguments for a recent rash of age verification laws across the country is to “protect the children.” Utah Gov. Spencer Cox called his signing of controversial social media laws a means for “protecting our kids from the h... |
| Feb 28, 2022 | Почему FCC запретила домовладельцам заключать эксклюзивные сделки с интернет-провайдерами | В теории новые правила должны простимулировать конкуренцию среди поставщиков сетевых услуг, но прошлый опыт был не очень успешным. Мы решили обсудить ситуацию и рассмотреть мнения сторон в сегодняшнем материале.Unsplash / EJ StratОдин дома
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| Sep 20, 2021 | Massive Troll Farms Revealed to Be Operating on Facebook | Social media giant Facebook has been the subject of numerous investigations and deep-dives regarding their capacity for fake news and misinformation. One report has recently uncovered that Facebook is home to legions of troll farms that are... |
| Aug 16, 2021 | Unions, Consumer Groups Wimp Out On Verizon Tracfone Merger | Last September Verizon announced it would be spending $6.2 billion to buy Tracfone, a prepaid wireless phone provider heavily used by lower income families. Given Verizon’s reputation and the US telecom industry’s long history of empty pre-... |
| Aug 16, 2021 | Unions, Consumer Groups Wimp Out On Verizon Tracfone Merger | Last September Verizon announced it would be spending $6.2 billion to buy Tracfone, a prepaid wireless phone provider heavily used by lower income families. Given Verizon's reputation and the US telecom industry's long history of empty pre-... |
| Nov 13, 2020 | FCC Boss Pai Urged To Accept Trump Loss, Pause Dumb Attack On Social Media | With the Biden victory, FCC boss Ajit Pai is being urged to pause all controversial rulemaking, including the agency’s absurd and now likely doomed attempt to regulate social media and undermine Section 230 via the FCC. With a Biden win, Pa... |
| Nov 13, 2020 | FCC Boss Pai Urged To Accept Trump Loss, Pause Dumb Attack On Social Media | With the Biden victory, FCC boss Ajit Pai is being urged to pause all controversial rulemaking, including the agency's absurd and now likely doomed attempt to regulate social media and undermine Section 230 via the FCC. With a Biden win, Pa... |
| Aug 31, 2020 | Fighting Hate Speech Online Means Keeping Section 230, Not Burying It | At Free Press, we work in coalition and on campaigns to reduce the proliferation of hate speech, harassment, and disinformation on the internet. It’s certainly not an easy or uncomplicated job. Yet this work is vital if we’re going to prote... |
| May 27, 2011 | Security Experts: DNS Filtering Threatens the Security and Stability of the Internet | The Protect IP Act is a bill proposed by Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont as replacement for the failed Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act (COICA). The bill was passed by committee today but blocked by Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon.... |
| Apr 23, 2010 | Google: Hate Competition? Come Compete On Our Fiber Network | Back in February Google announced that the company would be deploying 1 Gbps fiber to the home connections for a lucky community or two. Google’s plan is to create a playground to test next-generation ad delivery and to explore fiber deploy... |
| Public-private partnerships can help expand internet access in rural America. Here are the biggest hurdles utility providers and local governments face in solving the issue. | A cell tower on a mountain ridge in the Appalachian Mountains. Alex Potemkin / Getty Images
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Partnerships like the Rural Digital Opportunity Fund aim to bridge the digital divide in the US.
But there are many challenges, li... |
