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Email updates on news, actions,and events in your area.DEEPLINKS BLOGShare ItFrom the pandemic to to , we’ve seen &nbsp;how current broadband infrastructure . This pain is&nbsp;particularly felt in — and —where poverty and lack of choice leaves millions at the mercy of monopolistic Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who have .Tell your Senators to Support S.B. 4This is why EFF is part of a coalition of nonprofits, private-sector companies, and local governments&nbsp;in support of&nbsp;. Authored by California State Senator Lena Gonzalez, the bill would promote&nbsp;construction of the 21st century infrastructure necessary to finally put a dent in, and eventually close, the digital divide in California.S.B. 4 passed out of&nbsp;the California Senate Energy, Utilities, and Communications Committee by a vote of 11-1 on April 12. This demonstrates that lawmakers who understand these issues recognize it is vital for communities who are suffering at the hands of ISP monopolies to have greater opportunities to get the Internet access they need.If the monopolistic ISPs didn’t come to deliver adequate service during a time when&nbsp;many Californians'&nbsp;entire lives depended on the quality of their broadband, . It is high time local communities are allowed to take the future into their own hands and build out what they need. S.B. 4 is California’s path to doing so.TELL YOUR SENATORS TO SUPPORT S.B. 4Share 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 ItFrom the pandemic to to , we’ve seen &nbsp;how current broadband infrastructure . This pain is&nbsp;particularly felt in — and —where poverty and lack of choice leaves millions at the mercy of monopolistic Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who have .Tell your Senators to Support S.B. 4This is why EFF is part of a coalition of nonprofits, private-sector companies, and local governments&nbsp;in support of&nbsp;. Authored by California State Senator Lena Gonzalez, the bill would promote&nbsp;construction of the 21st...

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