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Thursday, February 20, 2025
February 2025
In-office work at highest level since 2020, as companies pull back on remote (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/20/2025 - 06:30These feds took Trump’s ‘fork’ deal. Then they got fired — creating a government ‘mess.’ (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/20/2025 - 06:30Opinion | DOGE isn’t the powerhouse Elon Musk thinks it is (Washington Post)
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Are AI services telephone companies’ magic revenue bullet? (Fierce)
Submitted by zwalker@benton.org on Wed, 02/19/2025 - 16:28Silicon Valley workers learn to worry about their politics
For years, as the social-media and startup world exploded, the tech industry was known for the outspokenness of its employees — largely liberal-skewing young technologists on the West Coast, who pushed their companies hard to build policies that then became models for a new kind of American workplace. This is changing faster than anyone expected.
Telecommunications Policy
In an age of platforms, apps, and streaming services, telecommunications policy has a distinctly antiquated ring. Conventionally associated with POTS—plain old telephone systems—telecommunications policy, some might say, is decidedly not about PANS—pretty awesome new stuff. However, both POTS and PANS depend on a global infrastructural backbone of fiber optic cables, satellites, spectrum, and networks to bring the digital age to people’s homes, offices, and mobile phones.
President Trump’s CBS lawsuit ties media freedom to FCC’s regulatory power
In the first hours of his presidency, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14149, “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.” The Order prohibits any “federal department, agency, entity, officer, employee, or agent” from acting “in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate.”
Rep Buchanan Introduces Bills to Expand Access to Telehealth
Rep Vern Buchanan (R-FL) introduced two bills to extend flexible health care options to Americans in need of timely care. Rep Buchanan introduced the Permanent Telehealth from Home Act (H.R. 1407) to remove obstructive geographic limitations to telehealth services and the Lung Cancer Screening and Prevention Act (H.R.