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Pandemic Exposes Europe’s Creaking Internet for All to See
Europe’s internet infrastructure is riddled with gaps and bottlenecks, exposed over the past seven months by surging hospital admissions to the rise of home working and explosion of e-commerce.
Google, Oracle Financed Many Supporters in Supreme Court Faceoff (Bloomberg)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 10/06/2020 - 18:48Big Tech Faces Ban From Favoring Own Services Under European Union Rules
Big tech firms could be banned from preferencing their own services in search rankings or exclusively pre-installing their own applications on devices, under new regulations planned by the European Union.
President Trump to meet with Republican AGs Sept 23 to discuss conservative censorship, as Google antitrust case looms (Bloomberg)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 09/22/2020 - 15:09Facebook Needs Trump Even More Than Trump Needs Facebook
As the country’s most powerful newsmaker and the person in charge of a government that’s been aggressively pursuing antitrust cases against big tech companies, President Donald Trump does have leverage over Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. So the chief executive officer could be forgiven for flattering President Trump.