November 2022

As the 2022 campaign draws to a close, here’s how federal, state and local candidates have used Twitter (Pew Research Center)

Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Wed, 11/02/2022 - 11:51

Jim Harper: Twitter Should Moderate Communities, Not Content (American Enterprise Institute)

Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Wed, 11/02/2022 - 11:51

Is Your WiFi Limiting Your Home Internet Performance?

If you’re frustrated with the speed of your home Internet, what can you do to improve it? Before making the leap to a new provider or absorbing the often difficult-to-swallow costs of a high-speed service plan, you might want to consider another culprit of slow Internet: your WiFi connection. WiFi connection performance is determined by factors independent of your access connection, while the access connection performance is (primarily) determined by the specific service contract you purchase from a service provider (ISP).

New hot job: State high-speed internet network director

Ensuring that more than $40 billion in new funding connects every American to high-speed internet service is a job that's falling to the states — and they need help. Of all the job openings posted for states' burgeoning broadband offices, the "director" position is the most common vacancy, according to data from The Pew Charitable Trusts. Directors are often responsible for crafting state broadband plans and overseeing hundreds of millions in funding from multiple state and federal programs. The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment Program (BEAD) will provide $42.45 billion to expand hi

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November 2022

As the 2022 campaign draws to a close, here’s how federal, state and local candidates have used Twitter (Pew Research Center)

Jim Harper: Twitter Should Moderate Communities, Not Content (American Enterprise Institute)

Is Your WiFi Limiting Your Home Internet Performance?

New hot job: State high-speed internet network director

Report: Screened & Scored in the District of Columbia (Electronic Privacy Information Center)

Op-ed: America's Ring doorbell camera obsession highlights the scourge of mass surveillance (NBC)

China-based accounts stoke division (Washington Post)

Twitter Limits Content-Enforcement Work as US Election Looms (Bloomberg)

Ransomware costs top $1 billion as White House inks new threat-sharing initiative (CyberScoop)

FCC Commissioner Carr Visits Taiwan for Bilateral Meetings (Federal Communications Commission)