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Rulings in Facebook, Apple antitrust cases show how tough it is to define a monopoly in the age of Big Tech (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 09/12/2021 - 16:09Pentagon ends mysterious program, Defense Department retakes control of 175 million IP addresses
A Pentagon program that delegated management of a huge swath of the Internet to a Florida company in January 2021 — just minutes before President Trump left office — has ended as mysteriously as it began, with the Defense Department retaking control of 175 million IP addresses. At its peak, the company, Global Resource Systems, controlled almost 6 percent of a section of the Internet called IPv4.
Cristiano Lima: Amazon enters Democrats’ crosshairs over Covid-19 misinformation (Washington Post)
Submitted by Grace Tepper on Fri, 09/10/2021 - 10:59Texas governor signs bill prohibiting social media giants from blocking users based on viewpoint
Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed a bill that would prohibit large tech companies from blocking or restricting people or their posts based on their viewpoint, setting the stage for a legal battle with the tech industry.
Where are President Biden’s telecommunications picks?
President Biden has been historically slow to appoint officials to the federal government’s top telecommunications agencies, and advocacy groups say the vacancies are preventing the administration from carrying out key agenda items, such as reinstating net neutrality rules killed during the Trump administration. Nearly eight months into his presidency, Biden has yet to pick permanent leaders for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which together oversee and set policy for the broadcast and Internet service in