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FCC Chairman Pai's Plan Will Take Broadband Away From Poor People
[Commentary] Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has portrayed the Lifeline program and the people who benefit from it as hopelessly corrupt. Now he is proposing to make changes that will, for all intents and purposes, destroy the program. He aims to severely reduce both the supply of and demand for Lifeline-supported services.
Some of the Most Popular Websites Share Your Data With Over 1,500 Companies (Wired)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 03/21/2024 - 10:28Apple Pulls Popular Movie Piracy App Kimi From the App Store (Wired)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 02/13/2024 - 17:09Most Top News Sites Block AI Bots. Right-Wing Media Welcomes Them (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/24/2024 - 06:29Comcast’s Xfinity Stores Your Sensitive Data. You Can Kind of Opt Out
Your internet service provider could have a good idea of who you’re planning to vote for in the 2024 election as well as the gender of the last person you slept with—and it’s saving that information for later. Major internet providers, like Comcast’s Xfinity, stockpile more revealing data than users might initially realize. For example, Xfinity customers are automatically opted in to allow the company to store sensitive personal information.
Wht Tech Workers Are Ditching Big Cities for Boise (Wired)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/17/2024 - 06:34Congress Wants Tech Companies to Pay Up for AI Training Data (Wired)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Thu, 01/11/2024 - 11:27How Not to Be Stupid About AI, According to Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun (Wired)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Tue, 12/26/2023 - 14:07Inside America’s School Internet Censorship Machine
Thanks in large part to a two-decade-old federal law, school districts across the US restrict what students see online using a patchwork of commercial web filters that block vast and often random swathes of the internet. Companies like GoGuardian and Blocksi govern students’ internet use in thousands of US school districts.