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Missouri launches investigation into Google’s handling of consumer data
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley has launched an investigation into whether Google has mishandled private customer data and manipulated its search results to favor its own products and stifle competitors.
President Trump said he ‘didn’t make that decision’ to potentially force AT&T and Time Warner to sell CNN
President Donald Trump appeared to stress that he had not intervened in AT&T’s bid to buy Time Warner — nor did he seek to require that the companies sell CNN in order to obtain the US government’s approval of the deal.
The arguments behind DOJ’s looming lawsuit with AT&T
As the Justice Department prepares for a legal showdown with AT&T over its $85 billion bid for Time Warner, analysts are debating whether the acquisition has potential harms for consumers and business competition that could sink the deal in court. One central concern at Justice is that AT&T could seek to deny other providers of TV and Internet, such as Comcast and Verizon, access to Time Warner's programming, and that it could prevent the rise of new technologies aimed at delivering content to consumers. Time Warner owns a substantial library of content. Under AT&T's control, th
Op-Ed: Please, Big Media, come visit us in Trump country (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 11/10/2017 - 15:53Facebook, show us your secret recipe
[Commentary] The power of Facebook, Twitter, Google and others, and the democratic threat that they represent, comes not from the content they show but how they show it. The closed algorithms that drive their feeds and streams also shape and bound our associational spaces. These systems know who we meet with, they determine who we hear from and they decide which voices we cannot escape. As a result, these digital companies have become arbiters, managers and record keepers of our associational lives.
Opinion: Can Democrats attack Trump over the AT&T-Time Warner merger? It’s complicated. (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Fri, 11/10/2017 - 12:23Sean Parker on Facebook: ‘God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains’ (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 11/09/2017 - 18:05E.U. competition chief asks Apple for details on tax arrangements (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/07/2017 - 14:49How Verizon and Comcast are working to ensure states don’t pass their own net neutrality bills
Comcast and Verizon have both asked the Federal Communications Commission to make clear that the FCC's new policy on network neutrality — which could be put to a vote as early as Dec — will preempt state and local regulations that might read differently. The request marks the industry's latest step to weaken federal rules that regulate broadband companies like legacy telephone companies. The broadband industry fears that even if the FCC succeeds in deregulating, states could take steps “countermanding” the federal agency's decision, according to the Verizon white paper.