March 2022
Vice President Kamala Harris isn’t trending. (Politico)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/04/2022 - 16:45Last month, following the signing of the bipartisan infrastructure law in November, the White House released an infrastructure law guidebook. The guidebook is meant to provide information to American communities, so they know what to apply for, who to contact, and how to get ready to rebuild.
This guidebook is a roadmap to the funding available under the law, as well as an explanatory document that shows direct federal spending at the program level.
Russia blocks access to Facebook (National Public Radio)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/04/2022 - 15:08Verizon CTO: We’ve already converted 4.5 Million copper circuits to fiber (Fierce)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/04/2022 - 15:03Russia’s Internet censor says it will block access to Facebook (Washington Post)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Fri, 03/04/2022 - 13:47Report for America's Steve Waldman: Our local-news situation is even worse than we think (Columbia Journalism Review)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 03/04/2022 - 13:30Democratic infighting on Section 230 reform spreads
Democrats reintroduced in both chambers a bill to examine the impact the first-ever law revamping Section 230 has had on marginalized sex workers, suggesting new efforts to reform the tech industry’s liability shield may face sustained headwinds from progressives. The reintroduced bill comes less than a month after senators advanced the EARN IT Act (
2021 Network Report
After hitting historic peaks in 2020, traffic on the Comcast network grew again in 2021. Data show a gradual shift throughout the year toward pre-pandemic traffic patterns. This included peak downstream traffic once again increasing faster than upstream traffic, and peak usage times shifting from earlier in the day to later in the evening. Peak downstream (download) traffic increased 11 percent over 2020 levels, while peak upstream (upload) traffic increased 5 percent.