An Engineer’s View of the Department of Justice’s T-Mobile/Sprint/DISH Strategy
From an engineering perspective, DOJ’s approach to enabling DISH’s deployment is not guaranteed to prove adequate to maintain competition
From an engineering perspective, DOJ’s approach to enabling DISH’s deployment is not guaranteed to prove adequate to maintain competition
Sen Joe Manchin (D-WV) sent eight letters to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, with results from speed tests across WV to highlight incorrect broadband coverage maps of WV and support the need for the formation of a public feedback system to better assess broadband coverage across rural states like WV.
Apparently, to satisfy regulators, YouTube officials are finalizing plans to end “targeted” advertisements on videos kids are likely to watch.
The DOJ is forging ahead with its review of online platforms for potential antitrust violations, coordinating with state attorneys general while signaling it could send demands for documents to Silicon Valley companies and their critics, said DOJ antitrust chief Makan Delrahim.
“The LameStream Media is far beyond Fake News, they are treading in very dangerous territory," the President tweeted.
On average, right-leaning pages consistently get more weekly interactions than left-leaning pages
For a typical household, the benefits of paying for more than 100 megabits a second are marginal at best, according to the researchers. That means many households are paying a premium for services they don’t need.
A years-long legal battle between Domino's Pizza and a man who is blind named Guillermo Robles over whether the pizza chain is required by law to make its website accessible to the disabled could make it all the way up to the Supreme Court in 2019. Should the case go that far, its outcome could forever change the way the internet is regulated — and determine how accessible the internet will be in the future for the roughly 20% of Americans with a disability.
Facebook unveiled its long-awaited feature allowing users to limit businesses, apps, and other groups that collect data about them on the Web and pass that information to the tech giant — a move that may disappoint people who thought they would be able to delete that information from Facebook in full.
My independent team of investigators looked into the complaints, and the company has taken action.
Chairman Ajit Pai has a new proposal to ensure everyone enrolled in the subsidy program for the poor is actually alive
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