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September 2020

House Democrats Poised to Trim Big Tech’s Sails

Democratic lawmakers are expected to call on Congress to blunt the power of big technology companies, possibly through forced separation of online platforms. The House Antitrust Subcommittee is nearing completion of a report wrapping up its 15-month investigation of Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook. The report follows the committee’s collection of more than one million documents from the companies and competitors, as well as a July hearing with CEOs of the four tech giants.

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United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Date: 
Fri, 10/02/2020 - 14:30

Oral arguments -- Livestream at https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/home.nsf/content/Oral+Arguments 


West Virginia Quickly Builds Statewide Network for Students

With its mountainous topography and sparsely populated areas, West Virginia understands this un-ideal reality as well as any state, so it created what some might call a Band-Aid solution: the Kids Connect Initiative, a unified education network with hundreds of Wi-Fi access points. The project started in early Aug, leaving little time for implementation before Sept 8, the first day of school in West Virginia. The concept was to allow any K-12 or college student the ability to use Wi-Fi from any access point within a network spread over the entire state.

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