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| Jun 18, 2026 | Congress Just Rushed Through A Disastrous Copyright Office Overhaul | In a voice vote last week, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6028, the “Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act.” The legislation is presented as a technical reorganization of some government agencies, but it’s much more than t... |
| Jun 10, 2026 | Supreme Court Surprisingly Backs FCC Effort To Punish AT&T, Verizon For Spying On Public Location Data | On one hand, the Trump administration wants to destroy most corporate oversight, consumer protection, labor rights, and regulatory autonomy. On the other hand, the administration very much wants to abuse government power and wield regulator... |
| Jun 3, 2026 | Распространение CD-R и кризис музыкальной индустрии | В 1982 году Philips и Sony выпустили компакт-диск, и музыкальная индустрия получила самый доходный физический носитель вплоть до наступления эпохи стриминга. В пиковом 1999 году CD-продажи в США принесли около $12,8 млрд из общих $14,6 млрд... |
| May 8, 2026 | Appeals Court Kills FCC Effort To Acknowledge Racism In Broadband Deployment | In late 2023, I wrote a feature for The Verge exploring the FCC’s attempt to stop race and class discrimination in broadband deployment. For decades, big telecoms have not only refused to evenly upgrade broadband in low income and poor area... |
| Jan 19, 2026 | FCC разрешила Verizon блокировать телефоны в своей сети на периоды больше 60 дней | Федеральная комиссия по связи США (FCC) разрешила Verizon блокировать телефоны в своей сети на периоды больше 60 дней. Это решение усложнит переход пользователей от Verizon к другим мобильным операторам, сообщает ArsTechnica.
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| Sep 4, 2025 | Analysis:Google ruling shows how tech can outpace antitrust enforcement | The rapid pace of development in the world of tech, particularly in AI, spurred a judge's cautious approach to curbing Google's online search monopoly, revealing a hurdle for U.S. antitrust enforcers' efforts to win their other cases agains... |
| Jul 14, 2025 | Verizon Wants Trump To Kill Phone Unlocking. Consumer Groups Say That Will Drag U.S. Wireless Back To The Stone Age | With the Trump administration openly destroying whatever is left of U.S. federal corporate oversight, regulatory independence, and consumer protection standards, Verizon sees an opportunity. It’s asking the Trump FCC to roll back longstandi... |
| May 17, 2025 | The Battle for Broadband: A Digital Divide Deepens | The digital landscape in America is changing, but not for the better. Recent actions by the Trump administration have thrown a wrench into efforts to bridge the digital divide. The Digital Equity Act of 2021, a lifeline for underserved comm... |
| May 13, 2025 | Sorry, Affordable, Evenly Deployed Fiber Optic Broadband Is Illegal Now Under Our Shitty, Ignorant Government | The Trump administration has illegally declared the Digital Equity Act of 2021 “racist and unconstitutional,” and called for it to be dismantled. The grant program had been helping push affordable fiber optic broadband into communities long... |
| Oct 19, 2024 | This Week In Techdirt History: October 13th – 19th | Five Years Ago
This week in 2019, states were rushing to protect net neutrality followed by the court ruling that shot down the FCC’s attempt to prevent them. Marc Benioff was being extremely hypocritical about Section 230, the guy who trie... |
| Sep 16, 2024 | Americans Consumed 100 Trillion Megabytes Of Wireless Data Last Year (And Paid Too Much For It) | The wireless industry’s major trade association (CTIA) just released a new study indicating that Americans consumed more than 100 trillion megabytes of wireless data last year. CTIA’s 2024 Annual Wireless Industry Survey found last year saw... |
| 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 17, 2024 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 398: Link Taxes Won’t Save Journalism | A few weeks ago, Mike was the moderator on a panel hosted by CCIA all about link taxes — the various problematic efforts around the world to force internet companies to pay media outlets for sending them traffic. The panel featured Public K... |
| 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 ... |
| Apr 30, 2024 | Net Neutrality Restored: A Battle for Internet Freedom | The FCC in the USA has voted to restore net neutrality rules, a move that has sparked a fierce debate between tech giants and internet providers. The rules aim to prevent ISPs from blocking or prioritizing certain content, ensuring an open ... |
| Apr 26, 2024 | Net Neutrality Is Back! For Now. | The FCC on Thursday once again voted along party lines to restore popular net neutrality rules stripped away during the Trump administration in a flurry of protest and sleazy industry behavior.
You might recall the 2017 repeal was so unpopu... |
| Apr 23, 2024 | No One Can Own The Law—So Why Is Congress Advancing A Bill To Extend Copyright To It? | Last week, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voted to advance the Protecting and Enhancing Public Access to Codes Act, or the Pro Codes Act (H.R. 1631), to the full House. The bill would extend copyright protection to code... |
| Apr 18, 2024 | 911 Systems Modernization Called by Experts After Multistate Outage | Aldohn Domingo, Tech Times 18 April 2024, 10:04 pm
The Multistate 911 outage now has experts reportedly calling to revamp the emergency hotline's systems after it went out due to an unrelated light pole installation. For almost 2½ hours, mi... |
| Mar 20, 2024 | ISP’s Landmark Piracy Liability Case Doesn’t Get a Do-Over in Appeals Court | Late 2019, Internet provider Cox Communications lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels, including Sony and Universal.
Following a two-week trial, a Virginia jury held Cox liable for its pirating subscribers. The ISP fa... |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Sony Faces Sales Slump with PlayStation VR 2 | Sony's PlayStation VR 2 is struggling with low sales, forcing the company to halt production until existing stock is cleared. Bloomberg reports that despite releasing over 2 million units, Sony is unable to sell them, leading to a halt in p... |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Cox Requests Rehearing of Piracy Case That ‘Threatens to Throw Countless People Offline’ | Internet provider Cox Communications has been on the sharp end of several piracy lawsuits in recent years.
The biggest hit came four years ago when the Internet provider lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels, includin... |
| Dec 22, 2023 | Authors & Copyright Scholars Back ‘Internet Archive’ in Landmark Legal Battle | The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization that aims to preserve digital history for generations to come.
The digital library is a staunch supporter of a free and open Internet and began meticulously archiving the web over a qua... |
| Aug 31, 2023 | A how-to repair company wants to fix one of summer's biggest problems: McDonald's broken ice cream machines | Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images
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McDonald's ice cream machines are so prone to breakdowns that they've spawned thousands of memes.
Now, iFixit, a how-to repair company, wants a copyright exemption to repair them.
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| Aug 29, 2023 | iFixit tears down a McDonald’s ice cream machine, demands DMCA exemption for it | Enlarge / The McDonald's ice cream machine is a relatively simple machine. It has a compressor, a motor, churning and agitating elements, and a series of circuit boards that keep service contracts flowing.
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| Aug 29, 2023 | iFixit Cites Right to Repair on McDonald’s ‘Always Broken’ Ice Cream Machine—Wants DMCA Exemption | Isaiah Richard, Tech Times 29 August 2023, 10:08 pm
The cheap and tasty frozen treats from McDonald's are always unavailable because it is "always broken," with iFixit taking it to their hands to see what is exactly wrong with the... |
| Jun 4, 2023 | Провайдеры против корпораций и хаос в регулирующих органах: что происходит с сетевым нейтралитетом в мире | Ранее мы писали про шквал фейковых комментариев, повлиявших на решение Федеральной комиссии по связи США (FCC) отменить сетевой нейтралитет в стране. Недавно история получила продолжение, а кризис регулирования разгорелся с новой силой.
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| Apr 25, 2023 | Stable Diffusion and DALL-E display bias when prompted for artwork of 'African workers' versus 'European workers' | AI-generated imagery has exploded in popularity as tools become more sophisticated.
But the technology is fraught with concerns regarding intellectual property, bias, and disinformation.
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| 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... |
| Dec 7, 2022 | Congress reportedly dropped a controversial media bill after Facebook threatened to remove news from its app in the US | Congress excluded a controversial media bill from the National Defense Authorization Act on Tuesday.
The bill would have forced online platforms like Facebook to pay for news content from publishers.
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| Dec 7, 2022 | Congress dropped a controversial media bill which saw Facebook threaten to ax news in the US if the act passed, report says | Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg. Getty
Congress excluded a controversial media bill from the National Defense Authorization Act on Tuesday.
The bill would have forced online platforms like Facebook to pay for news content from publishers.
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| Dec 6, 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... |
| Dec 5, 2022 | Fate of FCC nominee Gigi Sohn — and ‘net neutrality’ — may depend on Georgia runoff | More On: on the money
H’wood insider and Clinton ally could lose $300M in FTX debacle: insiders How Morgan Stanley finally lured bankers back to office 5 days a week Tech billionaire told investors he was ‘shocked’ by FTX losses: source Top... |
| Oct 12, 2022 | Can data portability happen on video-sharing platforms? | Today videos and their watchers are stuck. Large video-sharing companies like YouTube and TikTok seek to ensure that users watch and share videos (as much as possible) on their platforms alone. Technically, videos are collections of various... |
| Sep 15, 2022 | Even The Copyright Office Doesn’t Want What The JCPA Is Selling | It should not be this hard to stamp out a bad idea, but here we are, with the JCPA continuing to haunt the country like a zombie that simply refuses to die. The JCPA, for those just tuning in, is a bill designed to create a link tax. Its su... |
| Aug 25, 2022 | FCC launches probe into mobile carriers’ compliance with data disclosure rules | Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel released the responses she received from the nation’s top mobile carriers about their data retention and privacy policies and launched a new probe into carriers’ complia... |
| May 11, 2022 | Democrats finally get their FTC majority back | It took eight months of hearings, nominations, health-related delays, and a tie-breaking vote from the vice president, but the Senate has confirmed Alvaro Bedoya as the Federal Trade Commission’s fifth commissioner. More importantly — and a... |
| Mar 21, 2022 | U.S. Senators Introduce SMART Copyright Act to Combat Piracy | For years, U.S. lawmakers have considered options to update the DMCA so it can more effectively deal with today’s online copyright issues.
Senator Thom Tillis was one of the most recent to take up the baton. A little over a year ago, he rel... |
| 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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| Oct 26, 2021 | Team Biden Finally Gets Around To Staffing U.S. Telecom Regulators | It was the longest delay in staffing U.S. telecom agencies in Presidential history, but a White House announcement states the administration will promote interim boss Jessica Rosenworcel to be permanent FCC boss, while appointing former Tom... |
| Aug 12, 2021 | The Need To Secure GPS Is Real, But Washington Only Proposes Fake Fixes | Soldiers use GPS for position, navigation and timing, amongst other tools.getty |
| Jul 28, 2021 | ISPs Abuse FCC Covid Broadband Discount Program, Showing It's A Band Aid On A Much Bigger Problem | |
| Jul 12, 2021 | Remembering Sherwin Siy | My friend and colleague Sherwin Siy died suddenly last week, way before his time, way before any of us were ready to lose his friendship, and way before the Internet and the principles he defended could afford to be without his help defendi... |
| Jul 9, 2021 | Dish gets unlikely ally in fight over 12 GHz band
Featured Whitepaper | It wasn’t that long ago that Public Knowledge was fighting tooth and nail against the merger of Sprint and T-Mobile that eventually would lead to Dish Network being set up as a fourth national player in wireless.
Public Knowledge, a well-es... |
| Jul 9, 2021 | Biden’s plan to make stuff cheaper | President Biden issued a sweeping executive order on Friday, making the case to Americans that companies from multiple industries have become too big and too powerful, and federal intervention is needed to bring competition back to the mark... |
| Jun 18, 2021 | Letting Newspapers Band Together To Demand Payments From Internet Companies Is Bad For The Internet And Bad For Journalism | In the wake of Australia getting its ridiculous, anti-open internet link tax passed into law, the push to create similar such laws everywhere else has gone into overdrive. In the US, the main driver of this effort (which has been pushed by ... |
| Jun 3, 2021 | ‘Terminating Internet Access Based on Piracy Accusations is Extremely Harmful’ | Two years ago Internet provider Cox Communications lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels.
A Virginia jury held Cox liable for pirating subscribers because it failed to terminate accounts after repeated accusations, or... |
| May 6, 2021 | DC’s Public Knowledge to Congress: Close the digital divide | Editor’s note: With a broadband buildout on the agenda for President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill, digital access is a topic in Congress this week.
A House subcommittee hearing on broadband equity Thursday will include testimony from Chr... |
| Apr 2, 2021 | Biden’s plan to fix America’s broken internet, briefly explained | President Biden’s $2 trillion American Jobs Plan infrastructure proposal used a broader definition of infrastructure than most people tend to associate with the word. It took on everything from roads, pipes, and electricity to climate chang... |
| Mar 13, 2021 | How your mobile carrier makes money off some of your most sensitive data | T-Mobile raised a few eyebrows — and got some unflattering press attention — when the Wall Street Journal reported on its new privacy-invasive ad program. Beginning April 26, T-Mobile says it will use its customers’ web browsing and app usa... |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Report: We need more early-career minority tech policy leaders | As we increasingly rely on technology in our daily lives, it’s important that there’s a diverse group of people at the table when discussing policy that influences that technology’s development and use — including topics such as racial equi... |
| Jan 30, 2021 | Lawmakers want to break up Facebook, but experts say restoring competition through regulation should be the goal | New York Attorney General Letitia James said a Facebook breakup is "on the table."
Insider spoke to three experts who explained what a breakup might look like.
They said restoring competition through regulation should be the ultim... |
| Jan 30, 2021 | Lawmakers want to break up Facebook, but experts say restoring competition through regulation should be the goal | Facebook products. Hakan Nural/Anadolu Agency Hakan Nural/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
New York Attorney General Letitia James said a Facebook breakup is “on the table.”
Insider spoke to three experts who explained what a breakup might l... |
| Jan 13, 2021 | Dish, RS Access cheer FCC move to re-evaluate 12 GHz band
Featured Whitepaper | While the C-band auction is the topping the charts at $80 billion and counting, the FCC is looking at some slightly higher band spectrum that could serve mobile carriers' 5G needs.
SpaceX argues that it needs the band for its fledgling Star... |
| Dec 31, 2020 | Viasat says Elon Musk criticised an executive ‘not involved’ in the company’s FCC petition against Starlink | Elon Musk, the founder, CEO, and chief designer of SpaceX. Susan Walsh/AP Photo
SpaceX is making an unprecedented push to deploy network of nearly 12,000 internet-beaming Starlink satellites by mid-2027.
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| Dec 30, 2020 | Viasat says Elon Musk criticized an executive 'not involved' in the company's FCC petition against Starlink | Elon Musk, the founder, CEO, and chief designer of SpaceX. Susan Walsh/AP This story is available exclusively to Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.
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| Dec 24, 2020 | You’ll Be Able To Download A Lot More Stuff For Free—Legally—Jan. 1 | LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 13: A first edition of F Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' at the London ... [+] International Antiquarian Book Fair in the Olympia exhibition centre on June 13, 2013 in London, England. The Antiquarian Bookseller... |
| Dec 23, 2020 | ‘DMCA 2.0’ Draft Hints at Filters With Notice-and-Staydown Scheme | It is a busy week for copyright proposals in the United States, one that will resound far into the year ahead.
A few hours after the ‘CASE Act’ and the ‘Protecting Lawful Streaming Act’ were approved as part of the spending bill, a discussi... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | Congress Approves Covid-19 Spending Bill With Contentious Copyright Measures | December 22, 2020 4 min read This story originally appeared on Engadget
U.S. Congress has finally passed a new spending bill with Covid-19 relief measures, which on the one hand is good news for many Americans. As often happens with crucial... |
| Dec 22, 2020 | The new stimulus bill makes illegal streaming a felony | We’ve already written several stories about the new pandemic stimulus package that Congress approved yesterday, including funding to increase broadband access and for new energy initiatives.
There are, however, other provisions that could a... |
| Dec 10, 2020 | Tillis Release Details Of His Felony Streaming Bill; A Weird Gift To Hollywood At The Expense Of Taxpayers | Earlier today, we wrote about reports detailing the latest attempt to push through a bill to make streaming copyright-covered works online a possible felony, this time being pushed by Senator Thom Tillis, who wanted to attach it to the fede... |
| Dec 6, 2020 | DMCA Review Triggers Opposition Against Site Blocking and Staydown Requirements | When the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was introduced in 1998, file-sharing was a fringe activity, and online streaming a futuristic idea.
The developments over the past two decades have transformed the way people consume media, b... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Ajit Pai's FCC Does Something Good, Frees Wireless Spectrum The Auto Industry Had Done Little With | While we've had no shortage of criticism for Ajit Pai's facts-optional, relentless ass kissing of entrenched telecom monopolies, or his wholesale demolition of U.S. consumer protection, his agency has done a good job bringing more wireless ... |
| Nov 25, 2020 | Ajit Pai's FCC Does Something Good, Frees Wireless Spectrum The Auto Industry Had Done Little With | While we’ve had no shortage of criticism for Ajit Pai’s facts-optional, relentless ass kissing of entrenched telecom monopolies, or his wholesale demolition of U.S. consumer protection, his agency has done a good job bringing more wireless ... |
| Nov 18, 2020 | FCC takes spectrum from auto industry in plan to “supersize” Wi-Fi | Enlarge
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| Oct 26, 2020 | Safety in Name, Commercial in Fact: The Auto Industry Spectrum Squatting Campaign on 5.9 GHz Widens the Digital Divide | Here’s an idea for a business model. Instead of using valuable spectrum to close the digital divide by opening it for everyone to use, get the FCC to give us exclusive use for free. Next, convince states and the federal government that rath... |
| Oct 21, 2020 | What the FCC can and can’t do to Section 230 | The Trump administration is once again trying to force social media platforms to do its bidding. This time, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has been tapped to use a law called Section 230 to prevent websites from moderating cont... |
| Oct 1, 2020 | The Most Interesting Thing Happening In Competition Policy | The U.S. Department of Justice is set to announce its long-awaiting antitrust case against Google, and the House Antitrust Subcommittee is poised to reveal its proposals to break up some tech companies. But new reports from the Shorenstein ... |
| Sep 9, 2020 | If Lawmakers Don't Like Platforms' Speech Rules, Here's What They Can Do About It. Spoiler: The Options Aren't Great. | What should platforms like Facebook or YouTube do when users post speech that is technically legal, but widely abhorred? In the U.S. that has included things like the horrific video of the 2019 massacre in Christchurch. What about harder ca... |
| Jul 28, 2020 | Here’s Trump’s Plan To Regulate Social Media | WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 28: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office before signing an ... [+] executive order related to regulating social media on May 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump's executive order could lead to attempts to... |
| Jul 21, 2020 | Reflections On Special Data Rules For Electronic Marketplaces | Harold Feld at Public Knowledge recently published a thoughtful proposal to impose special data rules on digital platforms, modeled after the telecommunications privacy rules established in the 1996 Telecommunications Act. His aim is to pre... |
| Jul 2, 2020 | House OKs $100B broadband plan with $50 monthly discounts for poor people | Enlarge
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| Jun 26, 2020 | The Justice Department’s Good Ideas for Platforms Needn’t Be Done Through Section 230 Reform | The Justice Department’s recently released plan to reform Section 230 has drawn predictably partisan reactions. Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, for instance, rejected it, saying, “I have no interest in being an agent of Bill Barr’s spee... |
| Jun 18, 2020 | FCC's O'Rielly Musters A Tiny Bit Of Courage To Almost Acknowledge Trump's Executive Order Is Unenforceable Gibberish | So we’ve already noted how Trump’s executive order governing social media is a load of fluff and nonsense. Like most brain farts that stumble out of the head of the current president, there’s been a lot of breathless hyperventilation about ... |
| Jun 18, 2020 | FCC's O'Rielly Musters A Tiny Bit Of Courage To Almost Acknowledge Trump's Executive Order Is Unenforceable Gibberish | So we've already noted how Trump's executive order governing social media is a load of fluff and nonsense. Like most brain farts that stumble out of the head of the current president, there's been a lot of breathless hyperventilation about ... |
| Jun 5, 2020 | Coronavirus Surveillance Is Far Too Important, And Far Too Dangerous, To Be Left Up To The Private Sector | Months into the global pandemic, governments, think tanks, and companies have begun releasing comprehensive plans to reopen the economy, while the world will have to wait a year or longer for the universal deployment of an effective vaccine... |
| Jun 1, 2020 | Will Trump’s Executive Order Harm Online Speech? It Already Did. | President Trump’s executive order on social media did its damage before he even put pen to paper.
The order comes just days after Twitter applied its fact-checking policy to a presidential tweet that contained misinformation about mail-in v... |
| May 29, 2020 | Fighting The Free Speech Digital Divide Requires Interoperability and Privacy Protection | When people mention the digital divide, often they?re referring to the divide between people who have access to the internet and those who do not. However, we can also visualize it as the divide between those who benefit from free expressio... |
| May 29, 2020 | US Copyright Office’s DMCA Tweaks Trigger ‘Internet Disconnection’ Concerns | After several years of public consultations and stakeholder meetings, the US Copyright Office issued its review of the DMCA’s safe harbor provisions.
The report doesn’t propose any major overhauls of the DMCA. Instead, it aims to fine-tune ... |
| May 29, 2020 | Fighting The Free Speech Digital Divide Requires Interoperability and Privacy Protection | When people mention the digital divide, often they’re referring to the divide between people who have access to the internet and those who do not. However, we can also visualize it as the divide between those who benefit from free expressio... |
| May 23, 2020 | AI proves it’s a poor substitute for human content checkers during lockdown | The spread of the novel coronavirus around the world has been unprecedented and rapid. In response, tech companies have scrambled to ensure their services are still available to their users, while also transitioning thousands of their emplo... |
| May 23, 2020 | Making Internet service a utility—what’s the worst that could happen? | The cable industry takes a subtle approach to anti-Title II advertising.
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| May 23, 2020 | AI proves it’s a poor substitute for human content checkers during lockdown | 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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| Apr 20, 2020 | FCC approves 5G network despite military saying it will harm GPS [Updated] | Enlarge
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| Apr 11, 2020 | When school is online, the digital divide grows greater | Enlarge / A student studying on his laptop with two friends after classes were cancelled.
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| Mar 24, 2020 | Comcast wins Supreme Court case over interpretation of civil rights law | Enlarge / Byron Allen onstage during his 4th Annual Oscar Gala to Benefit Children's Hospital Los Angeles at the Beverly Wilshire on February 9, 2020.
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| Jan 31, 2020 | Ajit Pai’s “surprise” change makes it harder to get FCC broadband funding | Enlarge / Ajit Pai, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, during an interview in New York, on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2019.
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| Nov 28, 2019 | Antitrust Probe over Carrier-Switching Tech Closed by the U.S. Justice Department | Olive Marie, Tech Times 28 November 2019, 10:11 am
The United States Justice Department has closed an antitrust probe into a trade group including AT&T and Verizon, among its members criticized for giving the consumers a hard time to sw... |
| Nov 20, 2019 | Ajit Pai Does a Good Thing As He Pushes For Public C Band Auction | You may have read something of late about the battle over so-called “C Band spectrum,” the wireless frequencies that lie between 3.7 GHz and 4.2 GHz. This spectrum will be hugely beneficial for deploying 5G wireless, and wireless carriers a... |
| Nov 20, 2019 | Ajit Pai Does a Good Thing As He Pushes For Public C Band Auction | You may have read something of late about the battle over so-called "C Band spectrum," the wireless frequencies that lie between 3.7 GHz and 4.2 GHz. This spectrum will be hugely beneficial for deploying 5G wireless, and wireless ... |
| Oct 23, 2019 | U.S. House Passes Copyright “Small Claims” Bill with Overwhelming Majority | In May, new legislation was tabled in the U.S. House and Senate that introduces the creation of a “small claims” process for copyright disputes.
The CASE Act, short for “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement,” proposes to establ... |
| Oct 8, 2019 | New Ookla Speedtest Data Shows Deep Disparities on Tribal Lands | The web service company Ookla, owners of Speedtest.net, has published a detailed report on internet speeds across tribal lands in North America. (Disclosure: ExtremeTech and Ookla are both owned by Ziff Davis). Mobile and wireline performan... |
| Aug 15, 2019 | The Pai FCC Is Oddly Quiet About Trump's Plan To Have The Agency Police Speech | So last week, you probably saw the leaked plan by the Trump administration to try and “fix” the nonexistent censorship of Conservatives on social media. According to the leak, a large part of the plan would involve having the FCC, which has... |
| Aug 15, 2019 | The Pai FCC Is Oddly Quiet About Trump's Plan To Have The Agency Police Speech | So last week, you probably saw the leaked plan by the Trump administration to try and "fix" the nonexistent censorship of Conservatives on social media. According to the leak, a large part of the plan would involve having the FCC,... |
| Aug 1, 2019 | Pai’s FCC orders cities and towns to stop regulating cable broadband | Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai on December 14, 2017, in Washington, DC, the day of the FCC's vote to repeal net neutrality rules.
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| Jul 15, 2019 | Road to Adequacy, Part II: Can California Apply Under the U.S. Constitution? | Since it took effect in 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has become one of the toughest data privacy regimes in the world. The regulation imposes strict obligations on how entities process, control and transfer personal d... |
| May 20, 2019 | Ajit Pai OKs T-Mobile/Sprint merger, “requires” 5G rollout that’ll happen anyway | Enlarge / FCC Chairman Ajit Pai with his oversized coffee mug in November 2017.
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| May 2, 2019 | New “Small Claims” Bill Welcomed by Rightsholders, Feared by Copyright Troll Fighters | This week, new legislation was tabled in the U.S. House and Senate that introduces the creation of a “small claims” process for copyright offenses.
The CASE Act, short for “Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement,” proposes to est... |
| Mar 21, 2019 | T-Mobile’s $50 home Internet service has no data cap, but plenty of limits | Enlarge
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| Mar 8, 2019 | Justin Tabb’s Vision for A Censorship Free Internet | Share
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Human rights advocates around the world agree that internet censorship is a huge problem. Whether we are talking about mainland China, where a “Great Firewall” keeps over a billion people from accessing vast sw... |
