The Goals of Antitrust: The Legislative Perspective
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
November 2018
Analysis
Analysis
Stop Fanning The Flames
The power of communication and the exchange of ideas were starkly brought home recently as news of bombs being delivered to Americans’ homes and businesses, and the murder of worshipers in Pittsburgh dominated headlines everywhere. President Donald Trump and some of his Republican allies appear to be actively engaged in a feedback loop with extremists who participate in the darkest online forums.
How San Jose is Closing the Digital Divide
Equity drives San Jose’s (CA) approach to bringing new technologies to the city, and the deployment of municipal broadband and municipal fiber lines are no exception. Located in Silicon Valley, San Jose city officials are acutely aware of the technology boom happening on their doorstep and are eager to welcome these advances, provided they can do so in a way that speaks to the needs of all residents.
Twitter Says It Is Ready for the Midterms, but Rogue Accounts Aren’t Letting Up (New York Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 11/05/2018 - 17:22Benton Editorial
Benton Editorial
Stop Fanning The Flames
Monday, November 5, 2018
Alex Jones banned from Facebook? His videos are still there — and so are his followers
Infowars is gone from Facebook after a high-profile showdown over the summer between Silicon Valley and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. But another Facebook page he controls, NewsWars, has taken its place — and Jones’s many fans have followed. In the three months since Facebook removed four of Jones’s pages over allegations of hate speech, his NewsWars page has remained intact and surged in posts and page views.
Chairman Pai Demands Industry Adopt Protocols To End Illegal Spoofing
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai demanded that the phone industry adopt a robust call authentication system to combat illegal caller ID spoofing and launch that system no later than 2019. Such a system is critical to protecting Americans from scam robocalls. A robust call authentication framework would erode the ability of callers to illegally spoof their Caller ID, which scam artists use to trick Americans into answering their phones when they shouldn’t.
How 'net neutrality' became a hot-button issue
Though network neutrality started off more than a decade ago as an insight into how to make networks work most efficiently, it has taken on much larger social and political dimensions lately. The issue has emerged as an anti-monopoly rallying point and even a focus for "resistance" to the Trump Administration.