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Trump’s threat to veto defense bill over social-media protections is heading to a showdown with Congress (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 12/03/2020 - 06:37ACLU sues DHS over purchase of cellphone location data used to track immigrants (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 12/02/2020 - 14:06Failing grades spike in Virginia’s largest school system as online learning gap emerges nationwide (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 12/01/2020 - 18:04U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission says Congress should work to push U.S. tech standards (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 12/01/2020 - 18:02Biden could face a deadlocked Federal Communications Commission
It’s looking increasingly likely that the incoming Biden administration will face a deadlocked Federal Communications Commission. There are increasing odds that the Biden administration’s FCC initially will have two Democrats and two Republicans — potentially complicating the president-elect's efforts to follow through on some of his key Internet policy promises. The future balance of the agency largely hinges on a Republican push to confirm Trump’s nominee, Nathan Simington, a Commerce Department aide who was very involved with the president’s efforts to crack down on tech companies to add
Facebook's Nick Clegg: American leadership could save what is left of the global Internet (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/30/2020 - 15:23Editorial: If Facebook wants to be ‘good for the world,’ here’s what it needs to do (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/30/2020 - 15:23Defense officials lukewarm on 5G spectrum-leasing plan pushed by the White House
The White House has pushed the Pentagon to set up a controversial spectrum-leasing plan matching one being proposed by a politically connected company called Rivada Networks, which wants the lucrative job of using that spectrum to create a nationwide 5G network. Rivada proposing that it create a 5G network and rent out that spectrum to private companies such as Netflix, Facebook or Tesla. Some of the revenue would be sent back to the federal government. If the arrangement moved forward, a formal procurement process would determine what sort of fees Rivada could collect.