The 3 loopholes that keep President Trump’s tweets on Twitter
In recent months, Twitter has started to explain why it disagrees with calls for banning President Donald Trump’s account or deleting some of his tweets.
January 2018
Roombas will soon build a Wi-Fi coverage map while they clean (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 14:34Heritage op-ed: Repealing net neutrality is actually good for the internet (The Press-Enterprise)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 14:34Op-ed: The Punishing End Of Net Neutrality (Forbes)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 01/03/2018 - 14:34
After beating cable lobby, Colorado city moves ahead with muni broadband
The city council in Fort Collins (CO) on Jan 2 voted to move ahead with a municipal fiber broadband network providing gigabit speeds, two months after the cable industry failed to stop the project. The city council vote came after residents of Fort Collins approved a ballot question that authorized the city to build a broadband network. The ballot question, passed in November, didn't guarantee that the network would be built because city council approval was still required, but that hurdle is now cleared.
In Theory: Would an end to net neutrality stifle religious speech online?
[Commentary] Does the elimination of network neutrality threaten religious speech? Should Congress cement into law the right to equal access on the World Wide Web?
No, The Death Of Net Neutrality Will Not Be Subtle
[Commentary] Even among folks that support network neutrality, there's pretty clearly a contingent that still believes the damage caused by the repeal of the rules will somehow be subtle. Because the net neutrality debate in recent years wandered into more nuanced and quirky areas like interconnection and zero rating, they believe the ultimate impact of the repeal will likely be modest.
Frontier reaches over 275K broadband customers in California with CAF-II help
Frontier has extended broadband service to over 275,000 households across CA, using a mix of its own capital and the Federal Communications Commission's Connect America Fund Phase II program funding.
Net Neutrality Group 'Fight for the Future' Targets Democrats and Republicans
Fight for the Future is taking the gloves off in its effort to battle the Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission's party line vote to roll back network neutrality rules and deed primary Internet regulatory authority to the Federal Trade Commission and Justice Department. It has launched the VoteForNetNeutrality.com website, which asks its Internet followers to vote out lawmakers--Republicans and Democrats--who do not join a Democrat-led effort to use the Congressional Review Act to nullify that rule rollback, saying holdouts are "betraying" the public. Fight For the Future