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Facebook Founder Chris Hughes Says Facebook Should Pay Us For Our Data (Quartz)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 15:11Facebook’s problems can be solved with design (Quartz)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 04/30/2018 - 15:05Net neutrality officially dies any day now. It may get a second life.
Network neutrality is dead. The rules governing today’s internet, known as the 2015 Open Internet Order, will be lifted any day now. It will mark the first time the US has gone without some form of net neutrality since the 1990s. What happens to net neutrality now? Despite the Federal Communications Commission giving internet providers free reign, immediate changes aren’t likely.
Facebook is changing the way it handles your data—here’s how (Quartz)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 04/05/2018 - 12:26Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg are fighting over whether we rule technology—or it rules us (Quartz)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 04/02/2018 - 13:30Forget fixing NAFTA. Give rural Americans broadband internet and clean water
US negotiators will push for a series of protectionist measures at negotiations over the North American Free Trade Agreement the week of Feb 26. The Rust Belt needs a better connection to the rest of the world. To make it in the digital economy, the first step is to plug in. Nearly 40 percent of residents in the rural US remain without access to broadband.
Op-Ed: Net Neutrality Ins't the Problem -- It's the Internet Itself (Quartz)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 02/13/2018 - 17:40What inclusivity really means, from the woman who held the highest tech job in America
A Q&A with former US Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith.
Statehouses are the new arena in the battle for net neutrality
A consortium of public interest groups including Free Press report that at least 14 states have signed or introduced orders and bills seeking to enforce network neutrality, while seven states are considering them. Their first tactic has been to block Internet serivce providers wishing to do business with state governments. The governors of New York and Montana signed such executive orders this month blocking any ISPs that don’t meet net neutrality principles from publicly-funded contracts. Legislators in statehouses are drafting similar rules.