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Google Australia responds to government’s move to force it to pay for content by arguing it provides publishers with free advert (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 05/05/2020 - 06:28Digital divide 'isolates and endangers' millions of UK's poorest (Guardian, The)
Submitted by Jon Sallet on Tue, 04/28/2020 - 10:21How to avoid Amazon: the definitive guide to online shopping – without the retail titan (Guardian, The)
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Submitted by benton on Sun, 04/26/2020 - 13:19Facebook 'disappointed' in Australia's attempt to make tech giants pay for news content (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 04/20/2020 - 06:38Evgeny Morozov: The tech ‘solutions’ for coronavirus take the surveillance state to the next level (Guardian, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 04/16/2020 - 06:42US's digital divide 'is going to kill people' as Covid-19 exposes inequalities
The COVID-19 crisis is exposing how the cracks in the US’s creaking digital infrastructure are potentially putting lives at risk, exclusive research shows. With most of the country on lockdown and millions relying on the internet for work, healthcare, education and shopping, research by M-Lab, an open source project which monitors global internet performance, showed that internet service slowed across the country after the lockdown. “This is going to kill people,” said Sascha Meinrath, a professor at Penn State University and co-founder of M-Lab.