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President Joe Biden wanted Gigi Sohn to fix America’s internet — what went wrong?
Nearly 500 days had passed since President Joe Biden first picked Gigi Sohn [Senior Fellow and Public Advocate at the Benton Institute for Broadband & Society] to become the third Democrat to the nation’s top telecommunications regulator, and she was nowhere closer to confirmation than when her name was first announced in October 2021.
Something odd is happening when you try and search Twitter for Threads links (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 07/11/2023 - 06:27Instagram’s Threads surpasses 100 million users (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 07/10/2023 - 06:37Telegram has become a window into war (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Sun, 07/09/2023 - 15:18Twitter is being sued by its ex-employees again (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 07/06/2023 - 06:45Satellite internet is on the way after Arctic fiber cut unplugs part of Alaska
Satellite internet competitors OneWeb and SpaceX are in the running to reconnect Alaskans after ice damaged a sub-sea fiber-optic cable in the Arctic Ocean. While repairs are expected to take an additional six to eight weeks, satellites could help locals weather the widespread outage.
Meta is yanking news from Facebook and Instagram in Canada (Vox)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 06/23/2023 - 06:19AST SpaceMobile, an AT&T-backed cellular satellite company, sent a 4G LTE signal from space (Vox)
Submitted by dclay@benton.org on Wed, 06/21/2023 - 14:19The government is helping Big Telecom squeeze out city-run broadband
In Ammon, Idaho, every home has access to a fiber optic connection with 1 gigabit per second download and upload speeds. It costs roughly $30 per month. And it’s not controlled by a single big company. Nine different providers can offer you that connection.