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Private equity firm buys .org domain months after ICANN lifted price caps (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 11/25/2019 - 06:46Lawsuit: Comcast wants to cripple Denver sports network and take over broadcasting rights (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/18/2019 - 17:05How the FCC solves consumer problems—well, it doesn’t, really
The Federal Communications Commission's extremely hands-off approach to broadband-customer complaints has alarmed Rep Mike Quigley (D-IL). Rep Quigley wrote a letter to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai in Aug after learning of a Frontier customer who was forced to pay a $10-per-month rental fee for a router despite buying his own router. It turns out that the FCC hasn't proactively forwarded any broadband-billing complaints to the Federal Trade Commission despite the agencies' working agreement. But Chairman Pai's initial response to Rep Quigley didn't reveal that tidbit.
Comcast is trying to “dismantle” Civil Rights Act, MLK’s daughter says (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/11/2019 - 15:22AT&T switches customers to more expensive plans without asking them first (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 11/07/2019 - 17:02AT&T makes customers work to get refunds they should get automatically (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 11/06/2019 - 13:44Antitrust 101: Why everyone is probing Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google (Ars Technica)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 12:13DirecTV kept charging regional sports fee while channel was blacked out (Ars Technica)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/04/2019 - 15:14ISPs lied to Congress to spread confusion about encrypted DNS, Mozilla says
Mozilla is urging Congress to reject the broadband industry's lobbying campaign against encrypted DNS in Firefox and Chrome. The Internet providers' fight against this privacy feature raises questions about how they use broadband customers' Web-browsing data, Mozilla wrote in a letter sent to the chairs and ranking members of three House of Representatives committees.