Pluralistic: Big Telco's fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts (10 Nov 2023)

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Big Telco's fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts: Dickey Amendments for everything.
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Pluralistic: 07 Mar 2022

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Podcasting "All (Broadband) Politics Are Local": A chance for individuals to make a difference.
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Pluralistic: 01 Jun 2021

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Canadian telco monopolists run the show: The CRTC just put Teksavvy out of business.
Google cheats on location privacy: Part of the attribution con.
The antitrust case against Prime: The dotted line to higher prices.
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Pluralistic: 06 May 2021

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Scammers recycled covid nose-swabs: Indonesia had 1.6m infections and these supervillains helped export them.
Ed-tech apps spy on kids: Disciplinary Technology, SDKs, censorware, and education.
NY AG attributes Net Neutrality fraud to telcos: 18 million fraudulent comments filed in the FCC docket.
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Pluralistic: 16 Apr 2021

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Mass-action lawsuit against Facebook: Digital Rights Ireland wants to make the other GDPR shoe drop.
$100m deli made $35k in 2019/20: What the fuck is going on with Your Hometown Deli?
"Anti-voter-suppression" companies are lobbying to kill HR1: Keep your eyes on the prize.
People's Choice Communications: An ISP owned by striking Charter workers that diverts profits to its customers.
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Pluralistic: 14 Apr 2021

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The FCC wants your broadband measurements: Big Cable doesn't want us to confuse the issue with relevant facts.
Murder Offsets: Greenwashing will kill us all.
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Pluralistic: 31 Mar 2021

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AT&T will lay off thousands more: After promising that Trump's $20B tax-break would create jobs.
Cuba is a vaccine powerhouse: A vaccine for the Global South.
Sacklers to use Purdue bankruptcy to escape justice: Crime pays.
AI has a GIGO problem: Bias-laundering at mass scale.
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Pluralistic: 05 Feb 2021

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The Open Courts Act isn't open enough: America's laws should be free.
AT&T customer complains…via WSJ ad: 90-year-old Aaron Epstein has had it.
Amazon's brutal warehouse "megacycle": Take a 10-hour graveyard shift or lose your job.
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