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| Jul 2, 2026 | T-Mobile Jacks Up Prices For Everybody, Ignores Years Of ‘Uncarrier’ Promises | In the wake of the Sprint T-Mobile merger, wireless carriers immediately stopped trying to compete on price (exactly what deal critics had warned would happen when you reduce sector competition). T-Mobile, which once tried to differentiate ... |
| May 29, 2026 | Trump FCC Proposes Vile New Trans Panic TV Warnings | Last month the FCC quietly issued a public notice saying the Brendan Carr run agency was demanding that the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) create new TV ratings to alert viewers to “transgender and gender non-binary programming” and ... |
| Apr 1, 2026 | Brendan Carr Ignores The Law, Rubber Stamps More Right Wing Media Consolidation, Then Lies About It | Right wing broadcasters are having a very good time under Brendan Carr, who has looked to destroy all remaining media consolidation limits to let them merge. Such companies, like Sinclair, Nexstar, and Tegna, don’t do journalism so much as ... |
| Feb 26, 2026 | Netflix declines to raise its offer to buy Warner, says deal is ‘no longer financially attractive’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Netflix is declining to raise its offer to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming business, in a stunning move that effecti... |
| Feb 24, 2026 | Warner Bros gets a higher offer from Paramount in heated fight for the storied Hollywood studio | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS, AP Business Writer
NEW YORK (AP) — Warner Bros. Discovery said that Paramount has raised the price of its takeover offer to $31 per share, in addition to other revisions... |
| Feb 2, 2026 | Trump Is Helping Elon Musk’s Starlink Get Billions In Taxpayer Dollars With No Oversight | We’ve long noted how the 2021 infrastructure bill included $42.5 billion for broadband grants dubbed the Broadband, Equity, Access And Deployment (BEAD) program. The program wasn’t without its warts, but it had the potential to be truly tra... |
| Jan 16, 2026 | Trump’s ‘Free Speech’ Presidency Racked Up 200 Censorship Attempts In Its First Year | We’ve said it before, and we’ll keep saying it because apparently it needs repeating: Donald Trump is not a free speech president. He just plays one on TV while doing the exact opposite behind the scenes. And in front of the scenes. And bas... |
| Jan 6, 2026 | Right Wing Media Companies Begin Bickering At The FCC Over Who Gets To Dominate The Exploding Right Wing Propaganda Market | American right wing propaganda companies are beginning to fight among themselves as a shrinking number of dodgy media companies vie for domination of the Trump-coddled U.S. propaganda market.
Newsmax, a right wing propaganda organization pr... |
| Nov 20, 2025 | Brendan Carr Launches Baseless ‘Investigation’ Into PBS, NPR, And BBC To Try And Silence Criticism Of His Weird, Unpopular Boss | Donald Trump’s FCC boss Brendan Carr is opening a fake new “investigation” into PBS, NPR, and BBC in the hopes of suppressing journalistic criticism of the country’s increasingly unmoored and unpopular President. Carr first leaked word of t... |
| Aug 28, 2025 | GOP-Friendly Local ‘News’ Broadcasters Plan More Harmful Mergers After Trump Destroys What’s Left Of Media Consolidation Limits | During Trump 1.0, his FCC took at absolute hatchet to media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades of bipartisan collaboration, prohibited local broadcasters and media from growing too large, trampling smaller (and mor... |
| Aug 18, 2025 | Net Neutrality Advocates Won’t Appeal Trump Destruction, Say U.S. Courts Are Broken | A fusion of authoritarianism and corporatism is destroying what’s left of already soggy U.S. federal consumer protection and corporate oversight. You might not know this because the U.S. press and many policymakers genuinely don’t appear to... |
| Aug 12, 2025 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 426: The Media Capitulation Index | One of the most troubling things about this era in American history is the number of institutions that have caved to Trump’s bullying and given him what he wants, especially when it comes to media organizations. The folks over at the non-pr... |
| Apr 25, 2025 | The Tug of War Over Crimea: A Geopolitical Chessboard | Crimea is more than a piece of land; it’s a chess piece in a high-stakes game. Its strategic location in the Black Sea makes it a coveted prize for both Russia and Ukraine. The peninsula has a history steeped in conflict, identity, and powe... |
| Apr 23, 2025 | Trump administration proposes major shake-up of US State Department | WASHINGTON: The Trump administration is proposing a major overhaul of the US State Department that would eliminate more than 100 offices including some working on war crimes and rights advocacy to ensure the agency is in line with President... |
| Apr 18, 2025 | The FCC's Dance with Deregulation: A Chaotic Waltz with Corporate Interests | In the grand ballroom of American telecommunications, the FCC is performing a chaotic waltz. At the center of this dance is Brendan Carr, the Trump-appointed chairman, whose moves seem choreographed to please corporate giants rather than th... |
| Apr 16, 2025 | FCC Boss Brendan Carr Shamelessly Plugs Elon Musk’s Starlink Like A Dodgy Used Car Salesman | The first Trump FCC tried to give Musk nearly a billion dollars to deliver expensive Starlink access to some traffic medians and airport parking lots. The Biden FCC clawed back those subsidies, (correctly) worrying that the service couldn’t... |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Jon Stewart And Ezra Klein Help GOP Paint Infrastructure Bill Broadband Grants As A Useless Boondoggle | We’ve long noted how the 2021 infrastructure bill included $42.5 billion for broadband dubbed the Broadband, Equity, Access And Deployment (BEAD) program.
Managed by the NTIA and individual states, we’ve also noted how this money has taken ... |
| Mar 26, 2025 | Congressional Republicans target PBS, NPR funding in contentious hearing | This week alone, he denounced The Atlantic repeatedly for publishing texts from the Signal messaging app among high-ranking defense officials planning a military attack. Trump has also taken action against the Voice of America and other gov... |
| Mar 11, 2025 | Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr Harasses Google For Not Carrying Right Wing Religious Programming | As somebody who has covered the telecom and media industries professionally for decades, there’s simply of no limit of problems in both sectors competent federal regulators could be taking aim at. Broadband price gouging by monopolies, wide... |
| Feb 28, 2025 | Musk Leverages His Unelected Non-Existent Authority And Expertise To Steal $2 Billion FAA Contract From Verizon | The first Trump FCC tried to give Musk nearly a billion dollars to deliver expensive Starlink access to some traffic medians and airport parking lots. The Biden FCC clawed back most of those subsidies, (correctly) arguing that the service c... |
| Jan 3, 2025 | Trumplican 6th Circuit Just Killed Net Neutrality (And Whatever Was Left Of Pathetic U.S. Broadband Consumer Protection) | The telecom industry (with the help of the recent Trump Supreme Court), has been drooling for months at the prospect that the Trump-stocked courts would soon finally deliver the killing blow to FCC net neutrality protections (read: popular ... |
| Dec 29, 2024 | The Digital Gift Revolution: WeChat's New Feature and Its Implications | In the bustling digital landscape of China, gift-giving is undergoing a seismic shift. WeChat, the titan of social media and messaging, has introduced a new feature that allows users to send gifts to friends and family. This move is not jus... |
| Dec 28, 2024 | Free-speech advocates tell Supreme Court US TikTok law reminiscent of dictatorships | Free-speech advocates tell Supreme Court US TikTok law reminiscent of dictatorships
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| Dec 11, 2024 | Dodgy K Street Lobbying Firm Used By AT&T And Verizon Under Fire For Hacking Into Environmental Activist Email Accounts | Way back during the battle during net neutrality, you might recall all the sleazy shit telecom giants did to tip the scales in their favor.
Like making up dead and fake people to stuff regulatory websites with phony support for telecom gian... |
| 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... |
| Oct 28, 2024 | How The Cowardice Of The LA Times And Washington Post Highlights The Danger Of The Link Taxes They Demand, And Their Hypocrisy | As Mike and others have pointed out, the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post have utterly failed the public. While it is of course their right to endorse, or not endorse, anyone they choose, the refusal to provide any such endorsement in ... |
| Oct 18, 2024 | Trump’s Likely FCC Boss, Brendan Carr, Tries To Undermine Popular Infrastructure Bill Broadband Improvements | States are poised to receive $42.5 billion in broadband grants thanks to the 2021 infrastructure bill. While a lot of this money will be going to the usual entrenched monopoly incumbents, a lot of it is also going to a growing list of popul... |
| Oct 4, 2024 | Elon Musk Lies, Falsely Claims Subsidizing Starlink Would Have Saved Hurricane Helene Victims | I know I’ve argued that not every Elon Musk brain fart warrants its own news cycle, but this one is particularly gross given recent events.
We’ve noted repeatedly how in 2020, the Trump administration tried to give Elon Musk’s low-Earth orb... |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Elon Musk faces criticism over deepfake Kamala Harris video | SA-born billionaire Elon Musk said he plans to commit roughly R820 million each month to a new fund backing Donald Trump for US president. Image: Apu Gomes / AFP
Billionaire South Africa-born X owner Elon Musk is facing criticism for sharin... |
| Jul 25, 2024 | South Africa's Drug Crisis: A Growing Threat**
** | ** In the heart of South Africa, a hidden menace lurks. Recently, three Mexicans and two South Africans were arrested in a police raid on a crystal meth lab. This operation, tucked away on a remote farm north of Johannesburg, was not just a... |
| Jul 21, 2024 | Opinion: Richard Forno: Social media and political violence – how to break the cycle
By Richard Forno | By Richard Forno
The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, added more fuel to an already fiery election season. In this case, political violence was carried out against the party that is most often found espousing it. Th... |
| Jul 19, 2024 | Enhancing Cybersecurity Communication in Healthcare: Insights from Recent Breaches | The healthcare industry is facing a growing threat from cyber incidents, as evidenced by a staggering 93% increase in large breaches reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights between 2018 and 2022. Recent cyberattacks on major healthcare ... |
| Jul 15, 2024 | Вирусные рассылки и интернет от картеля: странные «услуги» корейских интернет-провайдеров и не только | Мы уже неоднократно разбирали, как развивается регулирование и отношение к правилам net neutrality в разных странах. Сегодня поговорим о том, как операторы связи (и не только) пытаются играть в шерифов и берут ситуацию на рынке в свои руки ... |
| Jul 3, 2024 | Elon Musk's Subsidy Saga: A Billionaire's Pity Party | In the ongoing saga of Elon Musk's quest for taxpayer subsidies, a recent decision by the FCC to deny him $886 million for his Starlink project has sparked outrage and frustration from Musk and his GOP allies. Musk, who claims to hate taxpa... |
| Jun 28, 2024 | GOP, Elon Musk Still Mad The FCC Wouldn’t Give Him $886 Million Dollars For No Reason | You might recall that Elon Musk claims to hate taxpayer subsidies. They should all be “deleted.” Except for the subsidies given to his companies (sometimes for doing nothing), of course.
Back in 2020, Musk’s satellite broadband venture, Sta... |
| May 30, 2024 | New Poll Reveals Black Americans 'More Likely' to Encounter Misinformation Online | By Joseph Henry
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The majority of Americans are increasingly concerned about online misinformation, acco... |
| May 9, 2024 | Final FCC Net Neutrality Rules Address ‘Fast Lane’ Loophole That Worried Critics | Before the Biden FCC restored net neutrality, there was concern that the new net neutrality rules weren’t as tough as the ones discarded by the Trump administration. While the draft rules did require ISPs be transparent about the limits of ... |
| Apr 9, 2024 | New Net Neutrality Rules Won’t Harm Telecom Giants In The Slightest | The FCC is expected to vote to restore net neutrality rules on April 25. And while there’re early indications that the rules may be slightly weaker than those stripped away by the Trump administration — and absolutely no indication the rule... |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Will Elon Musk help Donald Trump with cash, not just tweets? | Elon Musk says he won’t directly back Joe Biden or Donald Trump in the US election. Image: Mandel NGAN / AFP
South Africa-born Elon Musk, one of the world’s richest people, says he won’t directly back Joe Biden or Donald Trump in the US ele... |
| Mar 22, 2024 | Confused NY Court Says That Section 230 Doesn’t Block Ridiculous Lawsuit Blaming Social Media For Buffalo Shooter | Can you imagine what kind of world we’d live in if you could blame random media companies for tangential relationships they had with anyone who ever did anything bad? What would happen if we could blame newspapers for inspiring crime? Or te... |
| Mar 14, 2024 | Georgia transparency law exempts General Assembly | The General Assembly streams committee meetings and invites visitors to view sessions from the gallery. But that's about the point where the transparency under the Gold Dome ends.
Why it matters: Georgia's Open Records Act requires state an... |
| Feb 7, 2024 | In Fighting the “Disinformation” Problem, We Risk Losing the Battle for Our Minds to Big Tech | As the 2024 election in the US approaches, trust in government and media is eroding. Regulating Big Tech to make sure they and their algorithms are held accountable is paramount.
America is entering what may be the most high-stakes election... |
| Feb 6, 2024 | As Bluesky opens to the public, CEO Jay Graber faces her biggest challenge yet | Bluesky CEO Jay Graber says that her job is like being a substitute teacher. It’s not what you’d expect from the head of an experimental, up-and-coming social platform, but it makes sense: there’s a lot of pressure, and a mischievous audien... |
| 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. |
| Oct 21, 2023 | FCC, общественный интернет и 5G: что с сетевым нейтралитетом | В июне мы говорили о затянувшемся кризисе в США из-за попыток реформировать сетевой нейтралитет, а также об инициативах по усилению позиций интернет-провайдеров в разных странах. Разберем, что изменилось с тех пор.
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| Jul 17, 2023 | Can Threads Keep It Together? 3 Things I Think It Should Try | The Instagram Threads app is seen on a phone with a Twitter logo in the background in this ... [+] illustration photo on 06 July, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. (Photo by Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)NurPhoto via Getty Images |
| Jun 28, 2023 | The Trump FCC Wasted Millions In Broadband Subsidies In A Giant Mess Government Is Still Trying To Clean Up | So a few weeks ago Trump FCC boss Ajit Pai came out of hiding to issue a dumb blog post about how killing net neutrality must not have been a bad idea because the internet still works. In his post, he prattles on about how secretly wonderfu... |
| May 9, 2023 | Regulators Are Rewarding Sinclair Broadcasting For Lobotomizing Local Broadcast News | Despite oodles of regulatory favors and millions of dollars in spectrum sales, Sinclair Broadcasting is shuttering what passes for local “news” in another five markets, continuing a wave of layoffs making an already bad problem worse. |
| Jan 25, 2023 | Twitter partners with DoubleVerify and IAS on brand safety initiative amid advertiser exits | Amid declining ad revenue and advertiser exits, Twitter announced today that it has teamed up with ad-tech companies DoubleVerify and Integral Ad Science (IAS) to tell advertisers if their ad is placed around inappropriate content. The prog... |
| Jan 4, 2023 | Twitter to relax the 2019 ban on political ads | Team TC 4 Jan, 2023
Social media platform Twitter has announced changes to its advertisement policy. The company, in a tweet on January 4, informed that it will expand the permissible political ads on the platform in the coming weeks. “We b... |
| Dec 22, 2022 | The FCC can finally hammer predatory prison phone call companies, thanks to just-passed bill | A brand-new law (awaiting only the president’s signature) will let the Federal Communications Commission directly regulate rates in the notoriously predatory prison calling industry. Under the threat of having to provide a solid product for... |
| Dec 13, 2022 | Anti-LGBTQ slur takes off on Twitter after Elon Musk’s takeover | A new report from GLAAD and Media Matters shows how anti-LGBTQ hate has increased on Twitter since Elon Musk acquired the company. This data coincides with controversial content moderation decisions Musk has taken as the head of Twitter, li... |
| Dec 7, 2022 | Content Moderation Sacrificed in Left-Right Deals on Tech Reform | With the clock ticking on the postelection lame-duck session of Congress, tech reformers are pushing for votes on a package of bills that stalled over the summer. Three bills—the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, the Open App Marke... |
| Nov 22, 2022 | NAACP and ADL call for Twitter ad boycott after Musk reinstates Trump | Civil rights organizations are calling on advertisers to boycott Twitter in response to Elon Musk's weekend decision to reinstate former President Donald Trump's account on the social media site.
Banned from Twitter in 2021 because of conce... |
| Nov 12, 2022 | Chaos unchecked: A comprehensive timeline of Elon Musk's Twitter verification saga - for now | Elon Musk's revamped Twitter Blue launch has hit some major snags in the past week.
The paid model has paved the way for impersonators and trolls galore, prompting the company to pause its rollout multiple times.
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| Nov 5, 2022 | Twitter begins rolling out $7.99 Twitter Blue plan with verification, fewer ads | Update: It appears that the launch might’ve been premature. According to a tweet by Esther Crawford, a product lead at Twitter, the new Twitter Blue plan isn’t live yet but some users are seeing notifications as part of a live test.
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| Nov 5, 2022 | Election integrity is still a 'top priority' for Twitter despite mass layoffs, safety chief said | Elon Musk has axed thousands of jobs at Twitter. Susan Walsh/AP
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| Nov 5, 2022 | Election integrity is still a 'top priority' for Twitter despite mass layoffs, safety chief says | Twitter has laid off half its workforce including some responsible for content moderation.
Some fear this may allow more disinformation on the platform ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections.
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| Nov 4, 2022 | Musk blames ‘activist groups’ for major advertisers pausing spending on Twitter | As mass layoffs begin at Twitter, major advertisers are pausing their campaigns on the social network — a move that’s gotten the attention of newly minted CEO Elon Musk. In a tweet this morning, Musk blamed a “massive drop” in Twitter reven... |
| Nov 4, 2022 | Elon Musk says Twitter has seen ‘massive drop’ in revenue, blames ‘activist groups’ | More On: twitter
Twitter user who tracks Elon Musk’s jet says he has no plans to stop Laid-off Twitter employees reveal their fates: ‘8 months pregnant’ Elon Musk spotted in NYC heading into Wall Street investor conference he says Twitter i... |
| Nov 4, 2022 | Elon Musk says activists want to "destroy free speech" as advertisers flee Twitter | New Twitter owner Elon Musk said the company has seen a "massive drop" in revenue, blaming civil rights and other advocacy groups for scaring off advertisers as he moves fast to put his imprint on the social media platform.
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| Nov 2, 2022 | Elon Musk clarifies that Donald Trump and other banned accounts won't be allowed back on Twitter before the midterm elections, if at all | Elon Musk said banned Twitter accounts will not be allowed back for "at least a few more weeks."
This means that former president Donald Trump will not be on Twitter before the midterm elections.
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| Nov 2, 2022 | Elon Musk clarifies that Donald Trump and other banned accounts won't be allowed back on Twitter before the midterm elections, if at all | Elon Musk (left) and Donald Trump. Andrew Kelly, Gaelen Morse/Reuters
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| Nov 2, 2022 | Here’s what happened at Elon Musk’s meeting with civil rights leaders | After meeting with a group of civil rights leaders about his content moderation plans, new “Chief Twit” Elon Musk has committed to uphold existing election integrity policies until at least after the results of next week’s U.S. midterm elec... |
| Oct 18, 2022 | 250 Groups Urge Senate To Stop Being Corrupt Jackasses and Finally Confirm FCC Nominee Gigi Sohn | We’ve noted several times how telecom and media giants are running a sleazy smear campaign against Biden FCC nominee Gigi Sohn, in the hopes of keeping the agency in perpetual consumer protection gridlock. The attacks have been carefully se... |
| Sep 19, 2022 | Musk’s Starlink Says It’s ‘Unfair’ The FCC Pulled $886 Million In Subsidies Musk Claims He Doesn’t Want Anyway | You might recall that Elon Musk claims that he hates taxpayer subsidies. They should all be “deleted.” Except for the subsidies given to his companies, apparently. |
| Jul 28, 2022 | After Dobbs, Democrats and Republicans Switch Places on Speech Policy | The Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade is likely to have a sweeping effect on abortion and privacy, but it will also set the stage for a battle over what people can and can’t say online. Democrats and Republicans are already p... |
| May 3, 2022 | Elon Musk’s Starlink Still Can’t Seem To Answer Basic Customer Support Emails | We’ve noted for a while now how Elon Musk’s Starlink low-orbit satellite broadband service isn’t going to have the impact many think. For one thing, the service can currently only provide service to a maximum of around 800,000 subscribers g... |
| Apr 11, 2022 | U.S. Buries Fact It Gave Elon Musk $3 Million To Send Satellite Dishes To Ukraine | A couple months back, Starlink and Elon Musk got several weeks of press adulation for shipping thousands of low orbit satellite terminals to Ukraine. The units, generally capable of 100 Mbps speeds with low latency, were likely a huge help ... |
| Jan 28, 2022 | Courts (Again) Shoot Down Telecom Lobby's Attempt To Kill State-Level Net Neutrality Rules | The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has put a final bullet in the telecom industry’s attempt to kill state-level net neutrality laws. The ruling (pdf) again makes it clear that the Trump FCC’s 2017 repeal of net neutrality didn’t follow the la... |
| Jan 28, 2022 | Courts (Again) Shoot Down Telecom Lobby's Attempt To Kill State-Level Net Neutrality Rules | The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has put a final bullet in the telecom industry's attempt to kill state-level net neutrality laws. The ruling (pdf) again makes it clear that the Trump FCC's 2017 repeal of net neutrality didn't follow the la... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | Space X Engine Production Woes Could Screw Up Musk's Starlink Broadband Play | We’d already noted how Elon Musk’s Starlink isn’t going to be the broadband disruption play many people had imagined. The service lacks the capacity to really provide broadband to more than 500,000 to 800,000 users during its first few year... |
| Dec 7, 2021 | Space X Engine Production Woes Could Screw Up Musk's Starlink Broadband Play | We'd already noted how Elon Musk's Starlink isn't going to be the broadband disruption play many people had imagined. The service lacks the capacity to really provide broadband to more than 500,000 to 800,000 users during its first few year... |
| Nov 17, 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... |
| Sep 20, 2021 | FCC's Carr Still Pushing A Dumb Telecom Tax On 'Big Tech' | A few months back we noted how FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr had taken to Newsweek to dust off a fifteen year old AT&T talking point. Namely that "big tech" companies get a "free ride" on telecom networks, and, as a ... |
| Sep 20, 2021 | FCC's Carr Still Pushing A Dumb Telecom Tax On 'Big Tech' | A few months back we noted how FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr had taken to Newsweek to dust off a fifteen year old AT&T talking point. Namely that “big tech” companies get a “free ride” on telecom networks, and, as a result, should throw... |
| Sep 10, 2021 | Amazon, Space X Throw Hissy Fits As They Bicker Over Government Contracts, Subsidies | We’ve noted a few times that the Space X, Starlink satellite broadband service isn’t going to be quite as disruptive to telecom as many people might think. |
| Sep 10, 2021 | Amazon, Space X Throw Hissy Fits As They Bicker Over Government Contracts, Subsidies | We've noted a few times that the Space X, Starlink satellite broadband service isn't going to be quite as disruptive to telecom as many people might think. |
| Aug 4, 2021 | FCC Blocks Elon Musk From Getting Millions In Subsidies For Delivering Broadband To Traffic Medians | Late last year consumer group Free Press released a report showing how numerous broadband providers had been gaming the FCC’s RDOF (Rural Digital Opportunity Fund) subsidy program to get money they didn’t really deserve. The program doles o... |
| Aug 4, 2021 | FCC Blocks Elon Musk From Getting Millions In Subsidies For Delivering Broadband To Traffic Medians | Late last year consumer group Free Press released a report showing how numerous broadband providers had been gaming the FCC's RDOF (Rural Digital Opportunity Fund) subsidy program to get money they didn't really deserve. The program doles o... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | Telecom Lobbyists Easily Weakened Language In 'Bipartisan' Broadband Infrastructure Bill | So we've already noted how the broadband component of the "bipartisan compromise" infrastructure bill was still helpful, but much weaker than many wanted it to be (pretty much the common theme across the infrastructure package). W... |
| Aug 3, 2021 | Telecom Lobbyists Easily Weakened Language In 'Bipartisan' Broadband Infrastructure Bill | So we’ve already noted how the broadband component of the “bipartisan compromise” infrastructure bill was still helpful, but much weaker than many wanted it to be (pretty much the common theme across the infrastructure package). While there... |
| Jul 28, 2021 | ISPs Abuse FCC Covid Broadband Discount Program, Showing It's A Band Aid On A Much Bigger Problem | |
| Jul 21, 2021 | Axios Parrots A Lot Of Dumb, Debunked Nonsense About Net Neutrality | I've talked a lot about how the Trump net neutrality repeal was a massive con. It effectively gutted the FCC's consumer protection oversight at telecom monopoly behest, then tried to ban states from being able to protect US consumers as wel... |
| Jul 21, 2021 | Axios Parrots A Lot Of Dumb, Debunked Nonsense About Net Neutrality | I’ve talked a lot about how the Trump net neutrality repeal was a massive con. It effectively gutted the FCC’s consumer protection oversight at telecom monopoly behest, then tried to ban states from being able to protect US consumers as wel... |
| Jul 13, 2021 | How much do you pay your ISP? Consumer Reports wants to see your bill | Enlarge
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| Jun 18, 2021 | Elon Musk's 'Next-Gen' Broadband Service Is Overheating In The Arizona Desert | As we've noted a few times, SpaceX's Starlink service will be a massive improvement for the up to 42 million Americans that lack access to broadband. The ongoing 10,000 user beta is delivering speeds between 50 and 150 Mbps at low latencies... |
| Jun 18, 2021 | No, 'Big Tech' Should Not Give 'Big Telecom' Billions Of Dollars For No Reason | A few weeks back we noted how FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr had taken to Newsweek to dust off a fifteen year old AT&T talking point. Namely that "big tech" companies get a "free ride" on telecom networks, and, as a r... |
| Jun 18, 2021 | Elon Musk's 'Next-Gen' Broadband Service Is Overheating In The Arizona Desert | As we’ve noted a few times, SpaceX’s Starlink service will be a massive improvement for the up to 42 million Americans that lack access to broadband. The ongoing 10,000 user beta is delivering speeds between 50 and 150 Mbps at low latencies... |
| Jun 18, 2021 | No, 'Big Tech' Should Not Give 'Big Telecom' Billions Of Dollars For No Reason | A few weeks back we noted how FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr had taken to Newsweek to dust off a fifteen year old AT&T talking point. Namely that “big tech” companies get a “free ride” on telecom networks, and, as a result, should throw ... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | FCC Gives ISP $8,000 To Deliver Broadband Five Feet From Apple's $5 Billion Campus | We've noted repeatedly that there are two major reasons US broadband is slow, spotty, and expensive: regional monopolization (a lack of competition), and the state and federal regulatory capture (corruption) that protects it. On the latter ... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | FCC Gives ISP $8,000 To Deliver Broadband Five Feet From Apple's $5 Billion Campus | We’ve noted repeatedly that there are two major reasons US broadband is slow, spotty, and expensive: regional monopolization (a lack of competition), and the state and federal regulatory capture (corruption) that protects it. On the latter ... |
| May 11, 2021 | Despite Empty FCC Promises, Broadband Prices Jumped 19% During Trump Era | To justify its decision to effectively lobotomize itself at telecom lobbyist behest, the Trump FCC made all manner of promises. A major one was that if we gutted regulatory oversight of Comcast and AT&T, we’d see a massive boost in broa... |
| May 11, 2021 | Despite Empty FCC Promises, Broadband Prices Jumped 19% During Trump Era | To justify its decision to effectively lobotomize itself at telecom lobbyist behest, the Trump FCC made all manner of promises. A major one was that if we gutted regulatory oversight of Comcast and AT&T, we'd see a massive boost in broa... |
| May 7, 2021 | Ajit Pai promised cheaper Internet—prices rose faster than inflation instead [Updated] | Enlarge
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| Mar 4, 2021 | What Do the Available Public Comments About the Trump Ban Actually Say? | When the Facebook Oversight Board tallied up the public comments on a recent case concerning a Hindi-language post, it reported that the case had received a grand total of six comments. But then there’s the case about Facebook’s decision to... |
| Feb 22, 2021 | 'Net Neutrality Hurt Internet Infrastructure Investment' Is The Bad Faith Lie That Simply Won't Die | Since the very beginning of the net neutrality debate, ISPs have repeatedly (and falsely) proclaimed that net neutrality rules (read: stopgap rules crafted in the absence of competition to stop giant monopolies from abusing their power) utt... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Dumb New GOP Talking Point: If You Restore Net Neutrality, You HAVE To Kill Section 230. Just Because! | As the FCC gets closer to restoring net neutrality, a new and bizarre GOP talking point has emerged. It goes something like this: if you’re going to restore some modest rules holding telecom monopolies accountable, you just have to dismantl... |
| Feb 11, 2021 | Annoyance Builds At Elon Musk Getting A Billion In Subsidies For Starlink Broadband | So we've noted a few times how Elon Musk's Starlink is going to be a great thing for folks stuck out of reach of traditional broadband options. Though with a $600 first month price tag ($100 monthly bill and $500 hardware charge) it's not s... |
