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Twitter bans Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell in QAnon account purge (NBC)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 01/10/2021 - 10:29Frustrated by internet service providers, cities and schools push for more data
Months into the school year, the one thing many families have learned is how much they rely on a functioning internet connection to access remote classrooms. So education equality experts who are trying to chip away at the many challenges families are struggling with through the pandemic are starting by simply trying to identify which students aren't connected to make sure those households have access to affordable packages. But even though most internet service providers, or ISPs, offer affordable packages, they refuse to say how many customers they have signed up for the programs.
Twitter launches 'pre-bunks' to get ahead of voting misinformation (NBC)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 10/26/2020 - 15:45Democracy activists stranded after Trump administration pulls funding for anti-censorship tools
The Trump administration has undercut democracy activists in Belarus and Hong Kong by abruptly ending funding to a US internet freedom organization that provides technological tools to evade censorship and surveillance, according to cyber experts and lawmakers.