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Facebook expects ad tracking problems from regulators and Apple (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 17:11Interview with Sen Klobuchar on Antitrust, Broadband Competition
A Q&A with Sen Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) about her new Antitrust book.
Q: You’ve talked a lot about big tech; when we talk about big tech, we almost always talk about the consumer companies at the edge. It feels like the internet providers, which are monopolies for most people, are not receiving this level of scrutiny. You used to be a telecom lawyer, you worked for MCI. Do you think that scrutiny is coming for the Comcasts and the AT&Ts and Spectrum Cables of the world as well?
Apple fined $12 Million by Russian regulator over App Store monopoly abuse (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 04/28/2021 - 06:24Twitter censored tweets critical of India’s handling of the pandemic at its government’s request (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 04/25/2021 - 16:32President Joe Biden is betting big on small networks to close the digital divide
The Biden administration’s ambitious infrastructure proposal, the American Jobs Plan, includes $100 billion in broadband funding, with the goal of connecting every American to high-speed broadband by the end of the decade. But with Senate Republicans set to dramatically cut total investment in their counter-proposal, the future of the package is unclear.