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Meet The Eccentric Billionaire Who’s Negotiating To Buy The LA Times (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 02/07/2018 - 06:23Op-Ed: Could False Alerts and Fake News Start A Nuclear War? (Fast Company)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 02/01/2018 - 13:06With press freedom under threat, the Freedom of the Press Foundation wants to archive endangered clips (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 14:18Local news outlets are suddenly big fans of Facebook again (Fast Company)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 01/31/2018 - 14:17Comcast may force us to rethink the definition of “cord-cutting” (Fast Company)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 01/24/2018 - 10:52Want To Topple Telecom Oligopolies? Support Locally Owned Broadband
[Commentary] This past August, the residents of the Republican-leaning Michigan town of Lyndon Township overwhelmingly voted to raise their property taxes. What spurred this rural community to violate the core Republican tenant of minimal taxation? Lack of high-speed internet access. Speedy internet connections are easy to come by in cities and sprawling suburbs where big cable and telephone monopolies can expect a large return on their investment. But in many rural areas of the country, high-speed internet access is sparse–39% of rural Americans flat-out do not have broadband access.