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Jeff Orlowski: We need to rethink social media before it's too late. We've accepted a Faustian bargain (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 09/27/2020 - 10:04John Naughton: Can democracies stand up to Facebook? Ireland may have the answer (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 09/27/2020 - 10:03Facebook's long-awaited oversight board to launch before 2020 election (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 09/24/2020 - 12:36Facebook says it may quit Europe over ban on sharing data with US (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 09/22/2020 - 14:57Australia's National Broadband Network To Receive $3.5 Billion Upgrade to Roll Out Fiber (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 09/22/2020 - 14:56Twitter apologises for 'racist' image-cropping algorithm (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 09/21/2020 - 10:33Facebook suffers blow in Australia legal fight over Cambridge Analytica (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 09/14/2020 - 06:32Twenty years after the dotcom crash, is tech’s bubble about to burst again? (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Sat, 09/12/2020 - 14:06UK broadband speeds among slowest in Europe, study finds
The United Kingdom has plummeted down the global broadband speed rankings to rate as one of the slowest countries in Europe, with a typical household taking more than twice as long to download a movie than the average home in western Europe. Britain has dropped 13 places in an annual study ranking the average broadband speeds of 221 countries and territories, placing it 47th fastest in the world. In 2019, the UK ranked 34th for average broadband speed.