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President Biden asks for pause in Trump’s effort to ban WeChat (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 02/11/2021 - 14:20Big Russian hack used a technique experts had warned about for years. Why wasn’t the U.S. government ready? (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 02/09/2021 - 12:04Lacking a Lifeline: How a federal effort to help low-income Americans pay their phone bills failed amid the pandemic
The coronavirus has reinforced the Internet as the fabric of modern American life, a luxury-turned-necessity for a generation now forced to work, learn and communicate primarily through the Web. But it also has laid bare the country’s inequalities — and the role Washington has played in exacerbating these long-known divides.
Dominion Voting tells Facebook, Parler and other social media sites to preserve posts for lawsuits (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 02/04/2021 - 19:23Victor Pickard | The Fairness Doctrine won’t solve our problems — but it can foster needed debate (Washington Post)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Thu, 02/04/2021 - 15:53Comcast suspends Internet data limits, fees for Northeast customers
Comcast will suspend its new fees on heavy home Internet users in more than a dozen Northeastern states, reversing course on a policy that threatened higher bills for some families amid the coronavirus pandemic. Comcast will postpone the new charges after Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro (D-PA) raised concerns that Comcast’s policy threatened to disproportionately harm cash-strapped Americans who are learning, working, and communicating primarily online.
Editorial: Facebook and Twitter can do something about deceptive news. So why don’t they? (Washington Post)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 02/02/2021 - 16:52Russia is trying to set the rules for the Internet. The UN saw through the ruse.
Russia asked the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) to have the group’s 193 member states “discuss the status of global governance system for … Internet domain names, addresses, and critical Internet infrastructure.” In a curt statement, the ITU said simply that it had “noted the contribution” of Russia.