April 2019
Costs and Benefits of Banning Huawei (Technology Policy Institute)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 04/18/2019 - 12:33We finally know why the Instagram founders really quit (Vox)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 04/18/2019 - 12:33
Daily Digest 4/18/2019
Submitted by benton on Thu, 04/18/2019 - 09:51Facebook bans far-right groups in Britain (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 04/18/2019 - 09:2722% of US broadband households have a service speed of 100-999 Mbps
New research from Parks Associates finds 22 percent of US broadband households have a service speed of 100-999 megabits per second (Mbps), the most common service tier, although 39 percent of US broadband households do not know their broadband speed. The report, Modern Broadband: Competition and Retention at Gigabit Speeds, notes only 6 percent of US broadband households have gigabit-speed services and interest in upgrading to that speed of service has declined over the past two years.
Microsoft Unveils Two Secret Data Centers Built for Classified Government Data (nextgov)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 04/18/2019 - 09:22Platforms Want Centralized Censorship. That Should Scare You.
In the aftermath of [recent horrific mass shootings], some of the responses from internet companies include ideas that point in a disturbing direction: toward increasingly centralized and opaque censorship of the global internet. Facebook, for example, describes plans for an expanded role for the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism, or GIFCT.