Daily Digest 10/2/2019 (Inside The Movement To Improve Broadband)

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Broadband

Inside The Movement To Improve Access To High-Speed Internet In Rural Areas  |  Read below  |  Paul Flahive  |  National Public Radio
Editorial: Is net neutrality alive or dead? It’s hard to tell  |  Los Angeles Times
Analysis: Silver Linings to Today's Net Neutrality Court Loss  |  Free Press
Daniel Lyons -- The FCC wins big on net neutrality: What it means, and what’s next  |  American Enterprise Institute
Statistical Negligence in Title II Impact Analysis  |  Read below  |  George Ford  |  Analysis  |  Phoenix Center
Broadband Is Cable’s Booster Rocket  |  Multichannel News

Wireless

Sprint’s 5G network extends to mobile virtual network operators  |  Fierce

Platforms

In two hours of leaked audio, Mark Zuckerberg rallies Facebook employees against critics, competitors, and the US government  |  Vox
Sen Elizabeth Warren says Facebook has ‘repeatedly fumbled’ its responsibility to democracy  |  Vox
Comcast Emerges as New Google Antitrust Foe  |  US News and World Report

Security/Privacy

Congress and President Trump Agreed They Want a National Privacy Law. It Is Nowhere in Sight.  |  New York Times
How to Set Your Google Data to Self-Destruct  |  New York Times
Google will warn you when your passwords are too simple to guess and used too often  |  USA Today
Google is making it easier to check if your passwords have been compromised in a data breach  |  Vox
Google announces three new ways to hide your personal activity from Google  |  Vox
Over 500 US schools were hit by ransomware in 2019  |  ZDNet
Engineer admits hacking Yahoo accounts searching for images  |  Associated Press
America’s Answer to Huawei  |  Foreign Policy

Diversity

Rewrite Her Story: How film and media stereotypes affect the lives and leadership ambitions of girls and young women  |  Plan International

Communications & Democracy

Kara Swisher: President Trump Is Too Dangerous for Twitter  |  New York Times
America's most polarizing brands: News media companies  |  Axios

Stories From Abroad

The Ukraine scandal is testing the limits of the conservative media spin operation  |  Mic
European Court of Justice: Active consent’ required for cookie storage  |  Associated Press
Today's Top Stories

Broadband

Inside The Movement To Improve Access To High-Speed Internet In Rural Areas

Paul Flahive  |  National Public Radio

Like clean water or electricity, the Internet is now a must in most people's lives, but the federal government says more than 21 million people can't get broadband. Many of them live in rural areas. Now, if they had Internet access, it might slow the brain drain, spur innovation in farming and breathe new life into local economies. Paul Flahive of Texas Public Radio visited one rural community that's turned to an old playbook to connect the disconnected.

Statistical Negligence in Title II Impact Analysis

George Ford  |  Analysis  |  Phoenix Center

Recently a new study seeking to rebut the Federal Communications Commission’s conclusion on investment was made public. The author of the study is Christopher Hooton, Chief Economist of the Internet Association (a proponent of Title II regulation) and a scholar at George Washington University’s Institute of Public Policy. This new paper is not Hooton’s first attempt at an empirical analysis of investment and Net Neutrality, the first being an unskilled effort in 2017. In that work, Hooton fabricated large portions of his data and failed to understand what sort of investments he was studying, including one case where he analyzed the effect of Net Neutrality on investment in ports, canals, and other transportation infrastructure and, unsurprisingly, the paper was thoroughly dismissed by the FCC in its Restoring Internet Freedom Order. Hooton’s latest paper is, once again, an exhibition in statistical negligence. While Hooton claims he has found the Holy Grail of investment data, Hooton’s chosen measure of capital spending is not capital spending at all.

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