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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItAt long last, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for your broadband experiences. , you will let the FCC know whether you have been adequately served by your internet service provider (ISP). The feedback you provide informs future broadband availability as well as funding, standards, and federal policy.Traditionally, the FCC credulously , which allowed these giant businesses to paint a where everything was generally just fine. It was not fine. It is not fine. The pandemic demonstrated how . Just look at from Frontier’s recent bankruptcy and see how . It's not just Frontier, either: of ISPs or even demonstrate that ISPs don't think of us as customers, but rather as .Last Wednesday, the White House announced a plan to . It's overdue. Last February, Consumer Reports released a survey which found that 75% of Americans say . EFF&nbsp;has&nbsp; , and today we are part of a mass movement demanding universal and affordable access for all people so that they may be full participants in twenty-first century society.Trump's FCC, under the chairmanship of former Verizon executive Ajit Pai, opposing the 2017 net neutrality repeal. It's taken years to ., and to demand an end to the long, miserable decades when the monopolistic ISPs got away with charging sky-high rates for some of the worse service among the advanced broadband markets. We all deserve better.&nbsp;Share ItIn response to the very real pressures that online news outlets are facing, Congress continues to believe the very flawed Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is a magic solution. It is not. In fact, it is actively dangerous. And there’s a available....In May, Senators Mike Lee, Amy Klobuchar, Ted Cruz, and Richard Blumenthal introduced the “.” The bill, also called the “Digital Advertising Act” or just “DAA” for short, is an ambitious attempt to regulate, and even break up, the biggest online advertising companies...Westlaw, the world’s largest legal research service, is very likely to face antitrust liability. A federal court has ruled that ROSS Intelligence, a tiny rival offering new research tools (which Westlaw forced out of business with a copyright infringement suit) could proceed with claims that Westlaw uses exclusionary and anticompetitive...In December, 2020, Apple did something insanely great. They changed how iOS, their mobile operating system, handled users’ privacy preferences, so that owners of iPhones and other iOS devices could indicate that they don’t want to be tracked by any of the apps on their devices. If they did, Apple...The California Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee will soon be the first to consider new and terrible amendments to Assemblymember Quirk-Silva’s A.B. 2749—which is backed by AT&amp;T and other telecommunications interests. The legislation would prohibit the state from implementing affordable broadband rules for broadband companies receiving state subsidies as...The state of California is primed to bring 21st-century fiber access at affordable rates to every Californian. Last year’s means every California community has the resources available to chart a long-term course toward building fiber networks. The Department...There is a lot to appreciate in the recently published “Notice of Funding Opportunity” (NOFO) by the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications Information Administration (NTIA). It is arguably the first federal government proposal that seeks to promote infrastructure policies focused on the future, rather than the usual subsidizing “good enough...Imagine if your boss made up hundreds of petty rules and refused to disclose them, but every week, your pay was docked based on how many of those rules you broke. When you’re an online creator and your “boss” is a giant social media platform, that’s exactly how your compensation...The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a proposal for bringing competition and fairness back to online platform markets. It just cleared a major hurdle on the way to becoming law in the EU as the European Parliament and the Council, representing the member states, reached a ...The European Union’s (DMA) allows new messaging services to demand interoperability (the ability to exchange messages) from the internet's largest messaging services (like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and iMessage). Interoperability is an to promote competition and prevent monopolists from shutting down user-empowering innovation. But...Share It

Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItAt long last, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is asking for your broadband experiences. , you will let the FCC know whether you have been adequately served by your internet service provider (ISP). The feedback you provide informs future broadband availability as well as funding, standards, and federal policy.Traditionally, the FCC credulously , which allowed these giant businesses to paint a where everything was generally just fine. It was not fine. It is not fine. The pandemic demonstrated how . Just...

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