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Here's how you can apply to the FCC for the $50 discount on your broadband bill
You may be eligible for a $50 monthly coronavirus pandemic discount on your home broadband bill starting May 12.
A digital book ban? High schoolers describe dangers, frustrations of censored web access
There’s a common complaint among high school students across the country, and it has nothing to do with curfews or allowances: Internet filters are preventing them from doing online research at school. School districts must block obscene or harmful images to qualify for federally-subsidized internet access under the Children’s Internet Protection Act, passed by Congress nearly 25 years ago. But the records, from 16 districts across 11 states, show they go much further. Some of the censorship inhibits students’ ability to do basic research on sites like Wikipedia and Quora.
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Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/31/2023 - 06:33FTC fines Experian for littering inboxes with spam, giving customers no way to unsubscribe (USA Today)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Thu, 08/17/2023 - 17:25Anti-Defamation League and Tech Transparency Project find social media platforms pushing antisemitic recommendations (USA Today)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/17/2023 - 06:46Apple agrees to pay up to $500 million in settlement over slowed-down iPhones: What to know
Years after a lawsuit alleged Apple was adding software that slowed down older iPhones, the tech giant has agreed to pay a settlement worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Cotchett, Pitre & McCarty, one of the firms representing Apple customers in the suit, announced Aug. 9, 2023, that the 9th Circuit US Court of Appeals dismissed two appeals from people challenging the settlement.