October 2023

Microsoft says IRS has demanded $28.9 billion in back taxes (Financial Times)

Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 10/12/2023 - 07:28

Daily Digest 10/12/2023

Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 10/12/2023 - 07:28

Daily Digest 10/12/2023 (Consumer Protection)

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Thu, 10/12/2023

Benton Institute for Broadband & Society

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Jewish parents are being told by schools to delete social media from their children's phones in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war (BBC)

Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 10/12/2023 - 07:15

Israel’s vaunted tech sector is going to war (Washington Post)

Submitted by Grace Tepper on Thu, 10/12/2023 - 07:14

The variation in the affordability of internet access is the focus of the latest Internet Poverty Index (IPI) 2023, which projects the distribution of individuals who are priced out of a basic package of mobile internet and are thus living in internet poverty. Based on the latest IPI data, World Data Lab predicts that 1.05 billion people are currently living in internet poverty. Since 2015, the internet-poor population has decreased by 685 million or around 40 percent. The reduction in internet poverty has been driven by a universal

Results of the exploratory consultation on the future of the electronic communications sector and its infrastructure

The European Commission released the results of its consultations regarding the future of the electronic communications sector and its infrastructure.

T-Mobile Is Forcibly Moving People on Older Plans to Some of Its Newer Ones in November (CNET)

Submitted by Grace Tepper on Wed, 10/11/2023 - 19:24

How Net Neutrality Protects Consumers & Speech

A fact sheet on how net neutrality protects consumers and online freedom of speech. Open internet protections have long had widespread – upwards of 80 percent – support from the American people who have come to expect that they will be able to access all lawful content on the internet uninhibited by their broadband service provider’s business decisions. Across administrations from 2005 to 2018, it was the clear policy of the FCC to enforce open internet standards.

Welcome to the information blender

Seemingly from the first moments that members of Hamas began their attacks over the weekend, murdering and kidnapping hundreds of Israeli civilians, the internet erupted into a state of informational chaos. Different posts and platforms offered competing versions of what was happening on the ground. Horrific images and videos proliferated.

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