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FCC chairman Ajit Pai cancels CES appearance a week before show
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai has canceled plans to appear at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) the week of Jan 8, missing the show for the first time in five years and what would have been his first appearance as head of the commission.
Ad targeters are pulling data from your browser’s password manager (The Verge)
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We have Abandoned Every Principle of the Free and Open Internet
"In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face.” It was 1968, and J.C.R. Licklider, a director at ARPA, had become convinced that humanity was on the cusp of a computing revolution.
France Orders WhatsApp to stop sharing user data with Facebook (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 17:19Twitter starts enforcing new policies on violence, abuse, and hateful conduct (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 12/18/2017 - 10:58Facebook says “passively consuming” the News Feed will make you feel worse about yourself (The Verge)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 12/15/2017 - 13:48ISPs won’t promise to treat all traffic equally after net neutrality
We’re still too far out to know exactly what disclosures all the big Internet service providers are going to make — the rules (or lack thereof) don’t actually go into effect for another few months — but many internet providers have been making statements throughout the year about their stance on net neutrality, which ought to give some idea of where they’ll land. We reached out to 10 big or notable ISPs to see what their stances are on three core tenets of net neutrality: no blocking, no throttling, and no paid prioritization.
Net neutrality is dead. It’s time to fear Mickey Mouse
Disney just took control of 21st Century Fox’s media empire, and the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal net neutrality regulations that prevent internet providers from discriminatory behavior. These two industry-shaking events will set media companies on a dramatic collision course with ISPs. It is the conflict that threatens the internet.