Wall Street Journal
Op-ed: Small Sites Need Section 230 to Compete (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/26/2021 - 06:23Google Pursues Plan to Remove Third-Party 'Cookies' Tracking Tech (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 01/25/2021 - 15:05Andy Kessler: Both left and right want to regulate social media, but their ‘fixes’ would break the web (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 01/25/2021 - 06:26Op-ed: Biden should keep Trump’s last-minute executive order making regulation more accountable. (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 01/25/2021 - 06:26Who Is Running Government Agencies While Senate Considers Biden’s Cabinet Nominees? (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/21/2021 - 06:39Democrats Officially Take Control of the US Senate (Wall Street Journal)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/21/2021 - 06:38Net Neutrality and Big Tech’s Speech Hypocrisy
Social-media giants are under attack for censorship, but a few years ago they positioned themselves as champions of free speech. At issue was “net neutrality,” the Obama-era policy that treated internet service providers like Comcast and AT&T as common carriers—akin to the old Ma Bell monopoly—by prohibiting them from discriminating among content providers, including the social-media sites. Facebook and Twitter turned out to be more threatening than under threat.
5G’s Huge Upfront Bill Will Come Due
Wireless carriers clearly believe their own press about 5G. And they are wagering a huge sum to prove it. The latest auction of wireless spectrum licenses by the Federal Communications Commission ended on January 15 with a total of $80.9 billion.