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Trump’s latest misleading attack on Google, explained (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 06:24Republican fury about ‘bias’ on the internet is just a distraction, ThinkProgress founder Judd Legum says (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 08/30/2018 - 06:23Telecom-backed group defends anti-net neutrality robocalls to seniors (Vox)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 16:29President Trump keeps threatening tech companies, but he’s terrible at following through (Vox)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 08/29/2018 - 13:08Excerpt: The Internet of Garbage -- The Intersection of Copyright and Harassment (Vox)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 08/28/2018 - 12:30President Trump claims Google is suppressing positive news about him and ‘will be addressed’
President Donald Trump took to Twitter Aug 28 to write:
Google search results for “Trump News” shows only the viewing/reporting of Fake New Media. In other words, they have it RIGGED, for me & others, so that almost all stories & news is BAD. Fake CNN is prominent. Republican/Conservative & Fair Media is shut out. Illegal? 96% of...
Tumblr is explicitly banning hate speech, posts that celebrate school shootings, and revenge porn
Tumblr is changing its community guidelines to more explicitly ban hate speech, glorifying violence, and revenge porn. The new rules go into effect on September 10th. “It’s on all of us to create a safe, constructive, and empowering environment,” Tumblr writes in its blog post.
Members of Congress demand FTC investigation into Verizon’s throttling of firefighters’ data connections (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 08/26/2018 - 11:28Verizon says throttling firefighters wasn’t about net neutrality — was it?
Verizon slowing California firefighters’ data speeds during a wildfire crisis, but was quick to say, “This situation has nothing to do with net neutrality or the current proceeding in court.” Verizon was throttling “unlimited” customers in less extreme circumstances who hit certain data thresholds well before the Federal Communications Commission repealed net neutrality rules in 2017. But under the rules adopted in 2015, customers had a path to complain to the FCC when they believed throttling was unfair.