December 2021

Heidi Tworek: History explains why global content moderation cannot work (Brookings)

Submitted by Grace Tepper on Fri, 12/10/2021 - 13:25

Fiber permitting process could crush digital divide dreams

President and CEO of The Permitting Institute Alex Herrgott laid out a discouraging amount of challenges to the permitting process in order to lay fiber in unserved areas. Herrgott said organizations that embark on a fiber deployment project to unserved areas may have to interact with multiple federal, state and local agencies, none of whom coordinate together, and none of whom are at all concerned about the time-value-of-money for the company that has capital on the line.

Daily Digest 12/10/2021

Submitted by Grace Tepper on Fri, 12/10/2021 - 11:25

Daily Digest 12/10/2021 (Democracy)

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Fri, 12/10/2021

BEAD Program State-by-State Tracking Project

The National Broadband Resource Hub

Access to reliable, high-speed broadband internet has become increasingly critical for full participation in educational and economic opportunities.

Combating Government and Business Impersonation Fraud is on FTC's December Agenda (Federal Trade Commission)

Submitted by benton on Fri, 12/10/2021 - 06:10

Schools Confront a Wave of Student Misbehavior, Driven by Months of Remote Learning (Wall Street Journal)

Submitted by benton on Fri, 12/10/2021 - 06:08

Chairwoman Cantwell Calls on FTC to Investigate Allegations Facebook Misled Advertising Customers, Public on Platform Safety, Ad (Senate Commerce Committee)

Submitted by benton on Fri, 12/10/2021 - 06:08

Chairwoman Rosenworcel Announces Members, First Meeting of Precision Ag Task Force

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, in consultation with Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack, has appointed members to serve on the re-chartered Task Force for Reviewing the Connectivity and Technology Needs of Precision Agriculture in the United States. In its second term, the Task Force will continue its work to provide advice and recommendations to the FCC on accelerating the deployment of broadband Internet access service on unserved agricultural land to promote precision agriculture.

Strategic Organizing Center Issues Complaint to FTC Against Amazon for Unlawful Deception

The Strategic Organizing Center (SOC) submitted a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission "alleging [Amazon] is unlawfully deceiving millions of consumers." According to the complaint, Amazon is doing so by "failing to 'clearly and conspicuously' disclose which of its search engine results are paid advertisements rather than 'organic' search results." SOC stated it has conducted an analysis of over 130,000 Amazon product search results and found that the company was "substantially or entirely out of compliance with all the FTC's specific guidelines for the visual identification of online

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