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'It's time for significant changes': civil rights groups call for Facebook leaders to step down (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 12/18/2018 - 06:34France pushes forward alone with new tax on big tech companies (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 12/17/2018 - 12:42Google and Facebook to push hard against Australian proposal for regulatory body (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 12/13/2018 - 11:51Journalists paid to help fix Facebook’s fake news problem say they have lost trust in the platform (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 12/13/2018 - 05:37Broadband too slow in more than a quarter of UK homes
More than a quarter of UK homes do not have fast enough broadband to cope with a typical family’s internet needs. Just over 26% of the UK’s estimated 28 million households are getting by on speeds of less than 10Mbps, the level the media regulator, Ofcom, says is the bare minimum requirement for a modern household. “This research lays bare the extent of the UK’s digital divide,” said Dani Warner, a broadband expert at uSwitch. “Streets that are relatively close geographically can be light years apart when it comes to the download speeds they are getting.”