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Kevin Frazier op-ed: Congress needs to bring back the Office of Technology Assessment (San Francisco Chronicle)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/06/2021 - 12:50Op-ed: Government and industry combine to downplay the science on cell phone danger (San Francisco Chronicle)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 07/31/2020 - 06:341 in 4 Calif. kids don't have adequate internet access to learn from home (San Francisco Chronicle)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 07/02/2020 - 11:33How a farmworker town got broadband for all
If California is really the global tech capital, why is it so hard for small towns there to get the internet service they need? One answer to that question is in Gonzales, a Salinas Valley settlement of 9,000. While California’s biggest cities now struggle to provide internet access for people to work and study from home, Gonzales solved that problem a few months ago. Before the pandemic hit, the town offered broadband service, free of charge, to all its residents.
Facebook, Twitter hold evidence that could save people from prison. And they’re not giving it up. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 01/21/2020 - 21:52
How Facebook’s new ad policy helps politicians who lie
Mark Zuckerberg has rigged the rules of Facebook political advertising, making him complicit in lies and voter manipulation. The result is the most powerful propaganda amplifier in history, boosting campaigns that traffic in falsehoods. Zuckerberg’s company screens some paid political advertising for lies. But since early October, it makes an exception: When candidates pay for the ads, it will run any ad — even those with blatant lies.