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Democratic House Commerce Committee Leaders voiced concern that Facebook’s new Oversight Board does not have the power it needs to change Facebook’s harmful policies.
“Affordability is a big issue right now as many people are forced to be at home and get online, and a lot of people are also losing their jobs.”
Apparent violations occurred more than one year prior to the issuance of the NAL
The identifiers collected by TikTok, called MAC addresses, are most commonly used for advertising purposes.
Consumers are continuing to increase reliance on upstream bandwidth and are opting for faster speeds to meet dramatically changed usage habits.
Lawmakers acknowledge it won’t fully address the scope of the problem in rural Kansas
Push for remote learning could translate to EdTech companies capturing more children's data, crowd teachers out of education budgets, and subject kids to "relentless marketing efforts."
Support for the Expanding Opportunities for Broadband Development Act and the Rural Broadband Acceleration Act
Ahead of the 2020 election, big-money political groups have been exploiting the huge gaps in local news in America by propping up fake local news websites that are disguised as non-partisan
We still don't know exactly how much local control the internet can handle
The end of Paramount could eventually make your local theater a Disneyplex.
The FCC approved the company’s 3,236-satellite constellation, which aims to provide high-speed internet service around the world.
Conservatives interested in reform understand full well the purpose of the First Amendment. We simply don’t believe that gigantic and massively powerful social-media platforms deserve special statutory protection, as is laid out in Section 230.
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