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‘YouTube magic dust’: How America’s second-largest social platform ducks controversies (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/26/2021 - 06:38White House hosts cybersecurity ‘call to action’ with top tech, energy and finance executives (Washington Post)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 08/25/2021 - 17:37House passes $3.5 trillion budget plan, aims to vote on infrastructure package by late September (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 08/25/2021 - 06:24Nine House Democrats: Let’s take the win. Let’s do infrastructure first. (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 08/23/2021 - 06:20Policymakers want answers from T-Mobile about massive data breach (Washington Post)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 08/19/2021 - 12:02Rural telecommunications companies want more cellular spending in infrastructure package
While the bipartisan infrastructure package may help the nation’s most remote communities get connected to the Internet through fiber-optic cables, rural telecommunications companies say even fiber links won’t fix another big communications problem in their communities — a lack of cellphone towers that leaves many residents and first-responders with extremely poor mobile service. Their concerns underscore the complexity of modern communications networks, which require steep spending to dig the ditches, lay the cable and build the cellular towers to connect far-flung communiti
Editorial: Apple’s new child safety tool comes with privacy trade-offs — just like all the others (Washington Post)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Fri, 08/13/2021 - 12:58Podcast: How Sen McConnell learned to stop worrying and love a bill (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/12/2021 - 06:18President Biden won big on broadband, but allies say municipal broadband lost out
Some of the Senate infrastructure bill's staunchest supporters say they are frustrated by what wasn’t included in the bill: provisions to encourage municipal broadband — Internet service that is partially or fully owned by local governments. Consumer advocacy and anti-monopoly groups say helping cities build their own Internet services is crucial for expanding connectivity nationwide, and they say it could also dramatically increase competition in areas where only a few major telecommunications companies dominate the market. Locally owned networks, proponents contend, aren’t driven by profi