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| 28.07.2024 | The Kids Online Safety Act: A Double-Edged Sword for Digital Speech | The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is a legislative attempt to protect minors in the digital realm. It’s a noble cause, but the execution is fraught with pitfalls. This bill, like a ship sailing through stormy seas, risks capsizing under its... |
| 26.07.2024 | The Kids Online Safety Act And The Tyranny Of Laziness | There is some confusion about whether the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) regulates content or design on digital platforms like Instagram or TikTok. It’s easy to see why that is, because the bill’s authors claim they are attempting to make th... |
| 24.07.2024 | Schumer Advances KOSA: Congress’s Latest ‘But Think Of The Children’ Crusade | Apparently the only time Congress can get together to agree to something, it’s to give whoever is President the power to censor speech online. That’s the only conclusion I can come to regarding the widespread support for KOSA (the Kids Onli... |
| 25.04.2024 | Net neutrality is back: FCC bars broadband providers from meddling with internet speed | Internet service providers can no longer fiddle with how quickly — or not — customers are able to browse the web or download files, the Federal Communications Commission ruled Thursday.
The 3-2 vote to adopt net neutrality regulations, whic... |
| 09.10.2023 | Organização de direitos digitais faz parceria com músicos para criar estratégias para uso de IA no setor | Esta semana, a organização de direitos digitais Fight for the Future fez parceria com o grupo trabalhista da indústria musical United Musicians and Allied Workers para lançar #AIdayofaction, uma campanha que apela ao Congresso para impedir ... |
| 06.10.2023 | Artists across industries are strategizing together around AI concerns | As creative industries grapple with AI’s explosion into every artistic medium at once, separate calls from artists warning the world to take action before it’s too late are starting to converge. From fake Drake songs to stylized Instagram p... |
| 07.09.2023 | After Years Of Stupid Games, The Senate Finally Gives The Biden FCC A Voting Majority. Now What? | You might recall that Biden’s first nominee to the FCC, Gigi Sohn, found her nomination torn apart after an industry-funded smear campaign successfully derailed the nomination. Sohn is an extremely competent and popular reformer, but a homo... |
| 06.09.2023 | Zoom launches AI Companion to summarize meetings for late attendees | VentureBeat presents: AI Unleashed - An exclusive executive event for enterprise data leaders. Network and learn with industry peers. Learn More
Zoom, the videoconferencing and messaging platform, is getting into the built-in generative AI ... |
| 09.08.2023 | Zoom CEO admits mistake as terms-of-service changes raise AI fears | A change to Zoom's terms of service left customers confused and worried that the video conferencing company was seeking broad rights to use images, sound and other content from meetings to train its AI algorithms.
Why it matters: The pandem... |
| 07.08.2023 | Freedom of choice? How recent Zoom AI policy changes betrayed consumer trust | Head over to our on-demand library to view sessions from VB Transform 2023. Register Here
Video conferencing and messaging provider Zoom is facing severe backlash for changes it quietly made to its Terms of Service (TOS) back in March relat... |
| 28.07.2023 | Fan fiction writers rally fandoms against KOSA, the bill purporting to protect kids online | Fan fiction writers aren’t just penning alternate universe reimaginings of the Barbie movie, or steamy scenes featuring Marvel superheroes. This week, they’re writing letters to their senators, expressing their concerns that the Kids Online... |
| 20.03.2023 | 10,000+ rally in support of Internet Archive | BattleForLibraries.com online rally had 10,000+ participants in support of the Internet Archive. One day of oral arguments in big publisher’s suits to force Internet Archive to delete 4 million digital books and block libraries nationwide f... |
| 23.01.2023 | Privacy Is a Human Right – and the 118th Congress Must Defend It | As the 118th U.S. Congress begins, the stakes surrounding our privacy rights have never been higher. For decades, lawmakers have utterly failed to defend everyday people – much less those who are most vulnerable online – from dangerous encr... |
| 06.12.2022 | How Will Elon Feel When He Realizes Congress Is Trying To Force Him To Throw Free Money At Newspapers He Hates? | We’ve written many times about the many problems of the JCPA (the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act). As noted, the bill is a really sketchy bit of corruption: creating a link tax to force internet companies to funnel money to new... |
| 28.11.2022 | Civil Society Warns Against the 'Kids Online Safety Act' | Will it Pose Further Danger to Youth? | Trisha Kae Andrada, Tech Times 28 November 2022, 12:11 pm
In a letter to legislators on Monday, Nov. 28, several civil society organizations voiced concerns about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA).
They said the effort of enacting a measure... |
| 26.10.2022 | 1000+ Authors Speak Out For The Digital Future Of Libraries, Ask Publishers To Halt Harmful Actions & Rhetoric | Signed by a vast and diverse list of authors, the letter decries conduct from major publishers and trade associations, including their lawsuit against the Internet Archive, demanding that they cease efforts to undermine the essential contri... |
| 03.10.2022 | Publishers Lose Their Shit After Authors Push Back On Their Attack On Libraries | On Friday, we wrote about hundreds of authors signing a letter calling out the big publishers’ attacks on libraries (in many, many different ways). The publishers pretend to represent the best interests of the authors, but history has shown... |
| 30.09.2022 | Hundreds Of Authors Ask Publishers To Stop Attacking Libraries | We keep pointing out that publishers hate libraries. Oh, they’ll pretend otherwise, and make broad platitudes about libraries and the good of society. But, it’s clear in how they act that they think of libraries as dens of piracy. They’re n... |
| 29.09.2022 | Tornado Cash Sanctions Are Unduly ‘Creative’ With the First Amendment | In May, Nicholas Weaver suggested in Lawfare that the U.S. Treasury should “creatively” sanction Tornado Cash. In August, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) followed Weaver’s advice. The results were pretty disastrous for civil lib... |
| 12.08.2022 | Amazon to Expand its Palm-Print Checkout System to Whole Foods Stores | Amazon’s palm-reading identification technology may be coming to a Whole Foods near you, if you live in California. This touchless system requires you to hold your palm over a scanning device. Once it authenticates your identity, it allows ... |
| 29.06.2022 | Facebook Bans People For Simply Saying Abortion Pills Exist | On the one hand, content moderation at the scale modern social media companies operate at is an impossible nightmare. Companies are always going to lack the staff and resources to do it well (raising questions about the dangers of automatio... |
| 12.05.2022 | Privacy groups slam Zoom’s plans to monitor your emotions | Imagine you’re on a video call with your boss. You’re tired and stressed, but you’re trying to hold things together and be as professional as possible given the circumstances. Now imagine your boss knows all this because they have an app th... |
| 11.05.2022 | More than two dozen human rights groups call on Zoom to halt emotion tracking software plans | Twenty-eight human rights organizations penned a letter to Zoom Wednesday, calling on the company to halt any plans it has for emotion tracking software aimed at assessing users' engagement and sentiment. The groups say the technology is di... |
| 11.05.2022 | Zoom must kill ‘creepy’ emotion tracking feature, human rights groups say | More On: Zoom
Canadian lawmaker sorry for joining parliament session from bathroom 7 best ring lights for meetings, vlogs and selfies in 2022 Better.com ‘pissed away $200M’ by over-hiring: CEO Will Smith had Zoom meeting with Academy brass ... |
| 28.04.2022 | Emotion AI’s risks and rewards: 4 tips to use it responsibly | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Over the past two weeks, emotions have run high a... |
| 17.11.2021 | Restore Net Neutrality, Or Facebook Will Dominate The Internet Forever | US lawmakers have been talking a big game about reining in the ballooning monopoly power of Big Tech companies like Facebook and Google. We’re about to find out how serious they really are.
The White House has nominated public interest advo... |
| 31.10.2021 | Valve vs Blockchain Games: What has happened so far? | Abhijit Ahaskar 31 Oct, 2021
Valve's decision to ban games that use blockchain technology or promote non-fungible tokens (NFTs) has baffled and upset many in the gaming and Blockchain community. It has now drawn the ire of a coalition of bl... |
| 14.09.2021 | Apple’s iPhone 13 features A15 Bionic processor with 15B transistors | Join gaming leaders, alongside GamesBeat and Facebook Gaming, for their 2nd Annual GamesBeat & Facebook Gaming Summit | GamesBeat: Into the Metaverse 2 this upcoming January 25-27, 2022. Learn more about the event.
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| 14.09.2021 | Apple’s iPhone 13 features A15 Bionic processor with 15B transistors | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apple‘s iPhone 13 features a new A15 Bionic processor with 15 billion transistors. The chip will be used in the new iPhone 13 and iPhon... |
| 08.08.2021 | "Don't Kill Crypto" Campaign Goes Viral: U.S. Citizens Oppose Draconian Infrastructure Bill | Contents Call and tweet your senatorWhat's wrong with the most controversial bill in all of crypto regulation history
The Fight for the Future community created a dashboard that allows crypto supporters to reach every senator in a couple of... |
| 06.08.2021 | The US Senate Goes to War Over Crypto Taxation | The fight in the U.S. legislature over new cryptocurrency tax-reporting requirements in the Biden Administration’s huge infrastructure bill has continued to get weirder. After industry objections to a flawed initial proposal, there are now ... |
| 06.08.2021 | You Can't Be Tough On Big Tech While Killing Off Alternatives To It | The Biden administration has been talking a big game about being “tough on Big Tech” and Silicon Valley monopolies. But right now they’re quietly defending a provision in the must-pass Infrastructure Bill that targets software developers wh... |
| 06.08.2021 | You Can't Be Tough On Big Tech While Killing Off Alternatives To It | The Biden administration has been talking a big game about being "tough on Big Tech" and Silicon Valley monopolies. But right now they're quietly defending a provision in the must-pass Infrastructure Bill that targets software dev... |
| 06.08.2021 | Crypto community slams ‘disastrous’ new amendment to Biden’s big infrastructure bill | Biden’s major bipartisan infrastructure plan struck a rare chord of cooperation between Republicans and Democrats, but changes it proposes to cryptocurrency regulation are tripping up the bill.
The administration intends to pay for $28 bill... |
| 23.07.2021 | Should Social Media Companies Be Liable for Health Misinformation? | Social media companies could be in for some trouble, as a new bill in the Senate aims to hold them accountable for the health-related misinformation spread throughout their platforms.
Despite widespread vaccine availability, the United Stat... |
| 16.06.2021 | Apple Is Letting Over 150 Countries Censor LGBTQ+ Content In The App Store | A group of tech researchers and activists has released a new report that says that many LGBTQ+ apps are available in some countries but not others; they have identified LGBTQ+ apps that are not available in 152 different countries.
In a sta... |
| 06.06.2021 | As Amazon prepares its Sidewalk launch, privacy experts are raising concerns. One described the tech company's plans as 'another monumental step in surveillance capitalism.' | Amazon on Tuesday will launch Sidewalk, a network connecting Alexa and Ring devices.
Privacy experts told Insider the network raised concerns about customer data and privacy.
They highlighted the prospect of potential data leaks and the imp... |
| 06.06.2021 | As Amazon prepares its Sidewalk launch, privacy experts are raising concerns. One described the tech company’s plans as ‘another monumental step in surveillance capitalism.’ | Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Shannon Stapleton/Reuters
Amazon on Tuesday will launch Sidewalk, a network connecting Alexa and Ring devices.
Privacy experts told Insider the network raised concerns about customer data and privacy.
They highlighted... |
| 13.05.2021 | Axon is Now Selling VR Training That Won't Stop Cops From Killing People | After calls for police accountability following the killing of Mike Brown in 2014, Axon raked in billions selling body cameras and stun guns to police. Now, the company has announced its latest sales pitch: a virtual reality training progra... |
| 06.05.2021 | 80% of the 22 million comments on net neutrality rollback were fake, investigation finds | Of the 22 million comments submitted to the FCC regarding 2017’s controversial rollback of net neutrality, some 18 million were fake, an investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office has found. The broadband industry funded the fr... |
| 05.02.2021 | The SAFE TECH Act offers Section 230 reform, but the law’s defenders warn of major side effects | The first major Section 230 reform proposal of the Biden era is out. In a new bill, Senate Democrats Mark Warner (D-VA), Mazie Hirono (D-HI) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) propose changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that woul... |
| 27.01.2021 | Dozens Of Human Rights Group Tell Congress: Do Not Gut Section 230 On Our Behalf; It'll Do More Harm Than Good | As Congress (on both sides of the aisle) continues to explore new and dumber ways to wreck Section 230, often claiming that they need to do it to "protect" or "help" certain people or groups, over 70 civil rights, human ... |
| 27.01.2021 | Dozens Of Human Rights Group Tell Congress: Do Not Gut Section 230 On Our Behalf; It'll Do More Harm Than Good | As Congress (on both sides of the aisle) continues to explore new and dumber ways to wreck Section 230, often claiming that they need to do it to “protect” or “help” certain people or groups, over 70 civil rights, human rights, and social j... |
| 21.12.2020 | 2,000 Parents Demand Major Academic Publisher Drop Proctorio Surveillance Tech | On Friday, digital rights group Fight for the Future unveiled an open letter signed by 2,000 parents calling on McGraw-Hill Publishing to end its relationship with Proctorio, one of many proctoring apps that offers services that digital rig... |
| 30.11.2020 | Ajit Pai is leaving the FCC in January, and digital rights groups are preparing to restart the fight for net neutrality | FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will step down on January 20, 2021.
Pai was controversial for his role in repealing net neutrality rules.
Online reactions showed that people expect a relitigation of net neutrality under a Biden-appointed FCC chairman... |
| 02.10.2020 | Groups urge Amazon to disclose any election data breaches | Data breaches of Amazon's cloud computing servers in recent years has civil rights groups questioning whether the e-commerce company can protect voter data in the U.S. elections in November.
The groups, which include Color of Change, Demand... |
| 23.07.2020 | New York legislature votes to halt facial recognition tech in schools for two years | The state of New York voted this week to pause for two years any implementation of facial recognition technology in schools. The moratorium, approved by the New York Assembly and Senate Wednesday, comes after an upstate school district adop... |
| 09.07.2020 | Palantir built itself into a $20 billion success with a secretive and controversial business. Now it's prepping for life as a transparent public company. | Palantir CEO Alex Karp.Francois Mori/AP
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Data-crunching firm Palantir Technologies filed to go public Monday night. Valued at $20 billion, it would be the largest tech startup to debut in the market since Uber's public offering... |
| 10.04.2020 | Strippers in the UK Are Hosting a Virtual Strip Club | Suddenly, many of our lives consist mostly of unending video calls and being apocalyptically horny in an indefinitely unfulfillable way. Who’d have thought it would come to this? We may as well make the best of it and get creative. To that ... |
| 11.03.2020 | Here's Why I'm Campaigning Against Facial Recognition in Schools | Erica Darragh is a community organizer and harm reductionist from Georgia. She currently serves on the board of directors of Students for Sensible Drug Policy and has coordinated campus organizing for the campaign to ban facial recognition.... |
| 27.02.2020 | Controversial Facial Recognition Company Clearview AI Has Been Hacked | The online security woes just keep on coming, as controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI has been the victim of a security breach.
Earlier this year, Clearview AI drew criticism throughout the world for its reckless pursuit of... |
| 08.11.2019 | Your Amazon Ring doorbell may have leaked your Wi-Fi username and password | If you've ever expressed concern about the security implications of Amazon Ring connected doorbells; if you've ever voiced privacy concerns about letting Amazon have such a portal into your life... your fears have been justified.
It has jus... |
| 24.10.2019 | All These Musicians — Including a Guy from Fugazi — Are Boycotting Amazon Because of ICE | About 175 musicians are pledging not to participate in music festivals or events sponsored by Amazon until the tech giant drops its cloud services contracts with the Department of Homeland Security and with companies that work with ICE.
“We... |
| 21.10.2019 | Civil Rights Groups Ask Legislators To Block Ring's Surveillance Partnerships With Law Enforcement | If Amazon's not interested in scaling back its aggressive rollout of Ring doorbell/cameras -- a rollout achieved largely through partnerships with law enforcement agencies -- maybe some legislators will be willing to step in. |
| 21.10.2019 | Civil Rights Groups Ask Legislators To Block Ring's Surveillance Partnerships With Law Enforcement | If Amazon’s not interested in scaling back its aggressive rollout of Ring doorbell/cameras — a rollout achieved largely through partnerships with law enforcement agencies — maybe some legislators will be willing to step in. |
| 08.10.2019 | Civil Rights Groups Demand End To Amazon's Ring Police Partnerships | No fewer than 30 civil rights organizations have now penned an open letter calling for an end to partnerships between Amazon’s Ring and police. The letter, first reported by CNET, cites reports stemming from claims made by Amazon that it ha... |
| 08.10.2019 | Over 30 civil rights groups demand an end to Amazon Ring’s police partnerships | Over 30 civil rights organizations have penned an open letter that calls on government officials to investigate Amazon Ring’s business practices and end the company’s numerous police partnerships. The letter follows a report by The Washingt... |
| 20.08.2019 | Bernie Sanders Calls for Facial Recognition Ban for Law Enforcement | Facial recognition just took another big hit, as presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has called for a compete ban of the technology for use by law enforcement agencies.
With presidential campaigns ramping up to the 2020 election, some pre... |
| 09.08.2019 | Ring Partnerships With Police Are ‘Troubling,’ Home Security Lobbyists Say | The Monitoring Association, a major non-profit trade organization representing home security companies, has released a statement saying it is “troubled” by partnerships between local law enforcement and Ring, Amazon’s home surveillance comp... |
| 08.08.2019 | New Map Reveals That At Least 231 Cities Have Partnered With Ring | At least 231 police departments around the country have partnered with Amazon’s home security company Ring, according to the most comprehensive map of the company’s partnerships to date. The map was created by Shreyas Gandlur, an incoming s... |
| 07.06.2019 | DIGIT Tech News Roundup: 7th of June 2019 | DIGIT’s Top Trending Stories Aberdeen Students use Video Tech to Recreate ‘Earliest Pictish Fort’
Students from the University of Aberdeen have recreated what one of the earliest known Pictish forts may have looked like in a 3D animation.
A... |
| 06.06.2019 | Online Tool Launched to Help Airline Passengers Avoid Facial Recognition | A tool has been launched by privacy rights groups to help travellers avoid the ‘invasive’ tech in US airports, amid growing concerns over the use of facial recognition technology.
A host of rights organisations, including Fight for the Futu... |
| 27.03.2019 | Bill To Restore Net Neutrality Moves Forward, And The Public Is Still Pissed | A new bill that would fully restore the FCC’s 2015 net neutrality rules took a major step forward this week. |
| 13.03.2019 | Some Democrats Are Ready to Water Down Their Own Net Neutrality Bill | Democrats continue to push their new net neutrality bill through Congress, but there’s signs that several members of the party are already eager to water down the proposal. The three-page Save the Internet Act, introduced by Democrats last ... |
| 28.11.2018 | Activists Make One Last Push To Restore Net Neutrality Via Congressional Review Act | Efforts to reverse the FCC’s historically unpopular attack on net neutrality using the Congressional Review Act (CRA) have been stuck in neutral for several months, but activists are backing one last push in a bid to get the uphill effort o... |
| 07.11.2018 | Net Neutrality-Opposing, Big Telecom-Backed Marsha Blackburn Wins Senate Seat | Republican Marsha Blackburn, Congress’s biggest net neutrality opponent who also lists AT&T as one of her most generous campaign contributors, has been elected to the Senate in Tennessee. The results from Tuesday’s midterm vote projecte... |
| 25.09.2018 | Protesters call on Salesforce to end contract with border patrol agency | A dozen or so people accompanied by a 14-foot, 800-pound cage gathered in downtown San Francisco Tuesday morning to protest Salesforce’s contract with U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), the agency within the Department of Homeland Securi... |
| 11.06.2018 | How the net neutrality repeal will affect you | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| 11.06.2018 | How the net neutrality repeal will affect you | Months after the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released a proposal to roll back net neutrality policies enacted in 2015 under President Barack Obama, the Commission today formally repealed rules that prevented internet servic... |
| 01.06.2018 | 24 Million Americans Don't Have Access to Broadband—Why Isn't It an Election Issue? | Many elections around the US this year are more closely watched and highly contested races than the typical midterm. With so much at stake, you’d think an issue that affects more than 24 million Americans would be easy pickings for campaign... |
| 16.05.2018 | Senate votes to overturn Ajit Pai’s net neutrality repeal | Enlarge / WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 09, 2018: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) speaks during a news conference on a petition to force a vote on net neutrality. Also pictured are Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.).
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| 05.04.2018 | Congress's Biggest Opponent of Net Neutrality Is Getting Destroyed in Midterm Election Polls | Tennessee Representative Marsha Blackburn isn’t having much luck in her bid to transition from the House to the Senate, and her blind subservience to giant broadband monopolies likely has something to do with it.
While competition for the t... |
| 16.01.2018 | The Senate Only Needs One More Vote to Pass Its Net Neutrality Restoration Bill | Update: This story has been updated to include the news that there is a new House bill to overturn the FCC's net neutrality decision.
Every Senate Democrat has now pledged support to a bill that would overturn the Federal Communications Com... |
| 27.11.2017 | The End of Net Neutrality Means ISPs Could Crack Down on Cryptocurrencies | One bitcoin is now worth over $9,500 USD, but any cryptocurrency enthusiast worth their salt will tell you it’s still early days; Bitcoin has only been around since 2009, after all.
Cyptocurrencies are still in their infancy. Now, experts w... |
| 30.08.2017 | AT&T absurdly claims that most “legitimate” net neutrality comments favor repeal | Enlarge
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| 25.08.2017 | How Paloma turned a hobby project into a funded business | When Kelsey Hunter and her partners set out to make an easier way for concerned people to affect politics, she didn’t anticipate that it would become her next job.
After the election Hunter and a group of friends built CallParty, a chatbot ... |
| 16.08.2017 | GOP lawmakers shamed on billboards for trying to repeal net neutrality rules | reader comments 110 with 68 posters participating, including story author
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| 11.08.2017 | FCC Should Ignore Fake Net Neutrality Comments | As the old saying goes, “give ‘em enough rope, and they'll hang themselves.” That’s what progressive Democrats did when they promised to “unleash a political firestorm” of comments opposing the Federal Communications Commission’s roll back ... |
| 14.07.2017 | Ajit Pai not concerned about number of pro-net neutrality comments | Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai speaks during the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas on April 25, 2017.
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| 13.07.2017 | Comcast says net neutrality supporters “create hysteria” | Enlarge
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| 12.07.2017 | People Are Sending This Letter to Congress to Protect Net Neutrality | Right now the Internet operates according to net neutrality, which ensures your experience online is protected from the interference of Internet Service Providers--think big cable companies like Comcast, AT&T and Verizon. Without these ... |
| 11.07.2017 | How Companies Are Marking the Battle for the Net Protest | July 11, 2017 9 min read
This Wednesday, some of your favorite websites and apps might not load as quickly as usual -- if they load at all.
Before you express outrage (or throw your device across the room in frustration), take note: The com... |
| 11.07.2017 | People Are Mobilizing To Defend The Right To A Free Internet | The FCC won't let me be: Eminem warned us years ago about the overreach of the Federal Communication Commission, and now the government agency is once again poised to go a step too far in trying to eliminate net neutrality. Basically, net n... |
| 07.07.2017 | Spotify, Google, Tons of Other Companies Will Protest to Save Net Neutrality | Name a website or service that's part of your everyday life—music, social media, porn, news—and a company providing it has probably joined the battle for net neutrality.
Spotify, Facebook, Google, and ThinkGeek announced Friday that they'd ... |
| 15.06.2017 | FCC makes net neutrality commenters’ e-mail addresses public through API | Enlarge
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| 07.06.2017 | Amazon, Kickstarter, Reddit, YC join ‘save net neutrality’ protest planned for July 12 | A day of protest over the FCC’s controversial proposal to eliminate net neutrality rules has been planned for July 12, with supporters of the online action including the likes of Amazon, Etsy, Github, Kickstarter, Reddit and Y Combinator.
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| 31.05.2017 | Consumers Who Had Their Identities Stolen By A Spam Bot Demand FCC Investigate Bogus Net Neutrality Comments | Shortly after the FCC voted to begin killing net neutrality earlier this month, we noted how a mysterious bot began spamming the FCC comment system with posts favoring the dismantling of net neutrality. Analysis of the bot indicates it has ... |
| 25.05.2017 | People who were impersonated by anti-net neutrality spammers blast FCC | Enlarge
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| 24.05.2017 | Comcast Sends Cease And Desist Letter To Pro-Net Neutrality Group Over Website Name | Kevin Billings, Tech Times 24 May 2017, 06:05 pm
Over the last few years, net neutrality has been one of the more hotly debated matters for government agencies and businesses. The latest news sees Comcast against a pro-net neutrality group ... |
| 23.05.2017 | Examining the FCC claim that DDoS attacks hit net neutrality comment system | Enlarge
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| 23.05.2017 | If Net Neutrality Dies, Comcast Can Just Block A Protest Site Instead Of Sending A Bogus Cease-And-Desist | It appears that a vendor working for Comcast sent a totally bullshit cease-and-desist letter regarding a pro-net neutrality site: Comcastroturf.com, created by our friends over at Fight for the Future. The Comcastroturf website was set up a... |
| 23.05.2017 | Comcast vendor sent cease-and-desist to operator of anti-Comcast website | Getty Images | hidesy reader comments 59 with 36 posters participating
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| 23.05.2017 | Comcast Is Trying to Censor a Site That Claims Comcast Is Committing Fraud | In the latest salvo in the war against net neutrality, Comcast has sent a cease-and-desist order to the digital rights group Fight for the Future that threatens legal action if their pro-net neutrality website isn't turned over to telecom g... |
| 09.05.2017 | After net neutrality comment system fails, senators demand answers | Enlarge / John Oliver takes on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in a May 2017 net neutrality segment.
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| 23.01.2017 | Anonymous search engine DuckDuckGo celebrates over 10 billion searches | A lot of people are more privacy aware than they have been in the past, and are wary of entrusting everything they search for to Google.
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| 18.01.2017 | The day the internet stood still | Keep Watch Stay Free Campaign Contributor
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| 26.09.2016 | Tech really wants to fix this election | With just 42 days left until the election, it’s crunch time for anyone who hasn’t registered to vote. The deadlines to register in most states fall throughout October, with only a few states allowing in-person registration on the day of the... |
| 14.09.2016 | Steal This Show S02E02: ‘The Platform Is You’ | Returning guest Holmes ‘I’m on a boat‘ Wilson (Fight For The Future) checks in from… a boat in the harbour of Rio de Janeiro.
We discuss the ongoing attempt to extradite Megaupload’s Kim Dotcom to the United States, why Creative Future is p... |
| 15.07.2016 | Steal This Show S01E13: Save P2P, Save The Internet! | In this emergency episode of STEAL THIS SHOW, Thomas Lohninger of Save The Internet and Holmes Wilson of Fight For The Future explain how practices like traffic management, zero rating and specialised services threaten P2P, VPNs and, more g... |
| 28.06.2016 | Europe’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Rules Fail to Ban BitTorrent Throttling | For several years politicians have debated on how Europe should approach net neutrality.
Late last year the results of these negotiations were included in the Telecoms Single Market (TSM) regulation.
While the rules offer improvements for s... |
