A look at Gigi Sohn's unsuccessful FCC confirmation: Joe Biden nominated her in October 2021 and she withdrew 497 days later after a fierce opposition campaign
‘Dark money’ and the never-ending election cycle kept a qualified consumer advocate out of the Federal Communications Commission. Twitter: @kellymakena Twitter: Makena Kelly / @kellymakena : I profile...
TikTok's playbook to win DC's trust, like touring its Transparency and Accountability Center in California, echoes Huawei's unsuccessful US and Europe strategy
and Some Want to Ban It Entirely Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times : Democrat Senator Michael Bennet calls on Apple and Google to ban TikTok from their app stores Makena Kelly / The Verge : Apple and ...
Congress leaves out the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act from the US defense spending bill, after intense pushback from industry and advocacy groups
but this version of the legislation was a total trash fire. Good riddance. https://twitter.com/... @evan_greer : BREAKING: Bloomberg, NBC & others reporting that #JCPA is now OUT of the #NDAA. That's ...
The US FEC approves Google's proposal to keep campaign emails from being marked as spam, after GOP lawmakers said Gmail was censoring right-wing emails
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The US House passes the Chips and Science Act, which includes $52B+ for US chipmakers and tax credits to encourage investment; Biden must now sign it into law
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The US FCC approves “nutrition labels” forcing ISPs to show prices, speed, and more, plus network management practices like throttling, starting on November 15
so we can compare price, speed & data. No more fees in fine print. That's why the FCC is kicking off an effort to develop #broadbandnutritionlabels. Makena Kelly / @kellymakena : Nutrition-like labels...
Biden signs $1T+ infrastructure bill into law, with $65B to boost broadband access, $475M in grants to help low-income Americans acquire computing devices, more
here's what $1T infrastructure bill means for Washington state Turner Wright / Cointelegraph : President Biden signs infrastructure bill into law, mandating broker reporting requirements Wall Street J...
Twitter says it will start removing tweets that spread harmful COVID-19 vaccine misinformation starting next week and will label conspiracies starting in 2021
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Biden campaign releases official yard signs for Animal Crossing that players can use to decorate their virtual homes, as politicians try to reach voters online
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Amazon says it will not ask employees to remove TikTok from their mobile devices, and an internal email asking them to delete the app was sent in error
then walked back the policy and said it was an ‘error’ Rachel Lerman / Washington Post : TikTok users fear app shutdown as security concerns grow David Matthews / TechSpot : Amazon bans TikTok citing ...