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Despite Facebook’s attempts, pro-Trump events, groups still flourish (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 16:25Big ISPs pause donations to 147 Republicans who tried to reverse Biden’s win (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 13:17Jared Mauch didn’t have good broadband—so he built his own fiber ISP (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/12/2021 - 12:13Republican state lawmaker livestreamed himself in mob storming US Capitol (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 12:18Twitter appends “violence” warning to Trump tweets as insurrectionists storm Capitol (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/06/2021 - 16:15WhatsApp gives users an ultimatum: Share data with Facebook or stop using the app (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/06/2021 - 15:14Frontier agrees to fiber-network expansion in plan to exit bankruptcy
Frontier Communications has agreed to expand its fiber-to-the-premises network and improve its poor service quality as part of a bankruptcy settlement in California. Frontier committed to deploy fiber to 350,000 homes and businesses within six years on a schedule that would require the first 100,000 by the end of 2022, 250,000 by the end of 2024, and the full 350,000 by year-end 2026. The settlement, filed in late December, is pending approval by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
Upcoming Apple privacy update has developers desperately seeking dodges (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/06/2021 - 13:59Comcast data cap blasted by Massachusetts state lawmakers as it expands into 12 more states
Dozens of state lawmakers from Massachusetts urged Comcast to halt enforcement of its 1.2TB monthly data cap, saying the cap hurts low-income people during the pandemic and is unnecessary because of Comcast's healthy network capacity. The letter to Comcast Senior VP Mark Reilly, spearheaded by MA State Reps Andy Vargas and Dave Rogers, disputed Comcast's claim that a 1.2TB cap only affects a very small subset of customers it calls "super users." The lawmakers also wrote that "Massachusetts has experienced the largest relative increase of food-insecure individuals in the nation due to COVID-