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AT&T Preps for New Layoffs Despite Billions in Tax Breaks and Regulatory Favors (Vice)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/08/2019 - 15:06Major wireless companies are selling access to their customers’ location data -- its ending up in the hands of bounty hunters (Vice)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 01/08/2019 - 12:50The Future of American Broadband Is a Comcast Monopoly
The Federal Communications Commission released a new, 182-page Communications Marketplace Report it claims proves the US broadband industry is awash with vibrant competition. In reality, consumer groups, third-party data and the report itself paint a starkly different picture; one where consumers increasingly only have access to just one Internet service provider: Comcast.
Facebook’s Arms Race with Adblockers Continues to Escalate (Vice)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 12/10/2018 - 12:27Editorial: This Is a Dark Day for Press Freedom -- Response to Nov 30 Supreme Court of Canada ruling (Vice)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 11/30/2018 - 14:05Democratic Reps Who Haven't Supported Net Neutrality Yet Have All Taken Money from Telecoms
The Democratic Reps staying mum on network neutrality have all taken campaign contributions from major telecommunication companies, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Democratic Reps have until Dec 10 to get 218 signatures for the Congressional Review Act that would overturn Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai's Restoring Internet Freedom order. This would require every Democratic Rep and a few Republican Reps.
Prisons Want Cell Phone Jammers to Stop Inmates from Communicating With the Outside World
In June the Department of Justice released a report that declared a solution to prevent criminal activity from happening within prisons: it successfully tested a jammer that would block mobile signals from smuggled cell phones inside a Maryland prison. Throughout the corrections world the news spread fast.