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Minnesota AG to sue FCC over net neutrality repeal (The Hill)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 12/27/2017 - 11:26President Trump offers pens to media after tax bill signing (The Hill)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 12/22/2017 - 11:33Philanthropist Mark Ein to purchase Washington City Paper (The Hill)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 12/22/2017 - 11:33German watchdog: Facebook abused dominant position in data collection (The Hill)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 16:17Uncertainty high after repeal of net neutrality rules
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) vote to scrap net neutrality rules has sparked a vigorous debate about what comes next. The effects of the FCC’s policy change will not be clear for some time, experts say. “In the short term, little to nothing is going to be changing,” said Doug Brake, a policy analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, a nonpartisan technology focused think-tank. Gigi Sohn, a former policy adviser to past FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler and current fellow at Georgetown Law’s New Institute for Technology Law and Policy, has been a vocal critic
Google Chrome browser to start blocking ads in February (The Hill)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 14:26Sen Merkley (D-OR): Someone used my identity to file a fake anti-net neutrality comment (The Hill)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 12/19/2017 - 11:33'Harlem Shake' creators threaten to sue over Chairman Pai's anti-net neutrality video (The Hill)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 12/15/2017 - 13:51President Trump: 30 percent of journalists are 'fine people'
President Donald Trump declared that "about 30 percent" of journalists are good people. Breaking from his prepared remarks at the FBI's National Academy graduation ceremony, President Trump joked that many Americans were watching at home through the cameras of the "fake news" media. "As I look out on the audience today I see many young, bright faces," President Trump said. "To them and to many other young Americans watching at home, of which there are many — you see the fake news back there," he added, pointing to the line of news cameras.