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A new bill could finally ban predatory inmate phone costs
March 8, a bipartisan group of US Senators introduced the Inmate Calling Technical Corrections Act that aims to restore federal authority to crack down on what prison reform advocates call the “usurious,” “abusive,” and “exploitative” business practices of a small handful of companies that dominate the $1.2 billion US prison phone industry. For Sen Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), who introduced the bill, addressing the problem of predatory prison phones rates is a practical, as well as moral, imperative.
Meet the Campaign Connecting Affluent Techies with Progressive Candidates Around the Country (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 03/08/2018 - 10:51How women helped build the internet, and why it matters
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet, a new book from journalist and musician Claire L. Evans, offers a rougher and more complicated version of the history of the internet.
Chinese social media platform WeChat reaches 1 billion accounts worldwide (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 03/05/2018 - 11:33YouTube bans neo-Nazi channel after criticism over hate speech rules (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 13:03The best and worst of Mobile World Congress 2018 (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 10:50Facebook is starting to tell more users about facial recognition (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 02/27/2018 - 12:48Sprint is preparing six cities for 5G with Massive MIMO antennas (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 02/27/2018 - 11:45Reddit, Tumblr, and Others will fight for net neutrality with protests Feb 27
Along with organizations Fight for the Future, Demand Progress, and Free Press Action Fund, companies including Reddit, Tumblr, Etsy, and Medium are participating in a day of online and offline protests on February 27th. The protest — called Operation: #OneMoreVote — will call upon businesses, web users, and more to “flood lawmakers with phone calls and emails from constituents.”