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Opinion: Disney's purchase of Fox will make it more expensive to dump cable TV (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 12/15/2017 - 06:26Editorial: The FCC sacrifices the free and open Internet on the altar of deregulation (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 12/14/2017 - 06:27Wary of Trump, some foreign-born tech workers are choosing Canada instead of Silicon Valley (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 12/14/2017 - 06:25Net neutrality's repeal means fast lanes could be coming to the internet. Is that a good thing?
Paid prioritization involves a telecommunications company charging an additional fee to transport a video stream or other content at a higher speed through its network. The fee would most likely come from deals struck with websites such as Netflix willing to pay for a competitive advantage over an online rival.
Michael Hiltzik: FCC chairman jokes about being Verizon shill, days before forcing FCC vote that would be a boon for Verizon (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 12/13/2017 - 06:42Op-Ed: Journalists are at war with their critics — and they're losing badly (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 12/13/2017 - 06:29
Get set: Your internet bill is about to soar, thanks to Trump's FCC
[Commentary] Dec 14's the day that the Trump administration will overturn former President Obama’s rules protecting consumers from greedy telecom companies manipulating internet access and pricing. I got a preview of what’s to come over the weekend as my Spectrum internet bill soared by 20% — and as I encountered the take-it-or-leave-it policy imposed by Spectrum’s owner, Charter Communications, which purchased Time Warner Cable in 2016.