Los Angeles Times
Get set: Your internet bill is about to soar, thanks to Trump's FCC
[Commentary] Dec 14's the day that the Trump administration will overturn former President Obama’s rules protecting consumers from greedy telecom companies manipulating internet access and pricing. I got a preview of what’s to come over the weekend as my Spectrum internet bill soared by 20% — and as I encountered the take-it-or-leave-it policy imposed by Spectrum’s owner, Charter Communications, which purchased Time Warner Cable in 2016.
Netflix's 'creepy' tweet is a reminder of how closely it's watching us (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 12/11/2017 - 15:38Broadcomm goes hostile, seeks to replace Qualcomm's board in takeover bid (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 12/04/2017 - 12:49LA Weekly's new owners are still a mystery, and people are demanding transparency (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 11/30/2017 - 17:16FCC Chairman Pai defends his attack on net neutrality by substituting ideology for history
The world of the internet, as seen by Federal Communications Chairman Ajit Pai, is a simple one. Regulation is bad, deregulation is good. Conservatives are victims, and liberals reign supreme. And history doesn’t matter. In defending his campaign to repeal FCC regulations governing network neutrality, Pai got the history of regulation and the history of internet technology wrong, repeated his cherry-picked version of internet economics, and took irrelevant potshots at some of his critics in the information industry.