New York's law requiring ISPs to offer $15 or $20/month broadband has inspired Vermont, Massachusetts, and California to guarantee affordable internet access
We recommend targeting these affordability laws on the largest and most profitable ISPs, not small and rapidly growing ones. Mastodon: @ax6761@freeradical.zone : don't threaten me with a good time ......
The Biden admin finalizes $1.5B CHIPS Act incentives for GlobalFoundries, meaning it can start receiving federal funding for facilities in Vermont and New York
- Pact doesn't include $1.6 billion loan from proposed agreement — Biden administration has been firming up Chips Act awards
How Vermont lawmakers passed a strict online data privacy law despite significant pushback from the tech industry; GOP Gov. Phil Scott is yet to sign the bill
State lawmakers from Maine to Oklahoma say the lessons they learned from battling industry over privacy bills can provide a new playbook to fight back. Forums: r/UpliftingNews Forums: r/UpliftingNews ...
Bernie Sanders opens a Senate investigation into Amazon's warehouse safety practices and writes to Andy Jassy about “egregious health and safety violations”
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened a Senate investigation into Amazon's warehouse safety practices …
State of 5G in the US: New York had the fastest download speed at 114 Mbps, while Vermont had the slowest at 42.2 Mbps but the best 5G video experience
As U.S. carriers continue to hit new milestones in their 5G network rollouts, Opensignal has now conducted the most comprehensive analysis …
As states try to bring transparency to the data broker industry, a look at Vermont's law mandating that brokers register but has led to few accurately doing so
and at least one dead person. Our story on data brokers, a business that's being threatened by a new regulatory push: https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... David Carroll / @profc...
A list of 121 data brokers operating in the US, available due to a new Vermont law requiring companies who buy and sell third-party personal data to register
You've probably never heard of many of the data firms registered under a new law, but they've heard a lot about you. A list, and tips for opting out. Tweets: @pasternack , @carnage4life , @irinissima...
Vermont will pay up to $10K over 2 years to those who move there to work remotely for an out-of-state employer, to cover relocation and work-related expenses
here's how to do it Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : Every depopulated state or city should do this. We subsidize corporate relocations all the time. It's insane we don't do the same for remote work...
Vermont starts regulating data brokers, which now have to register in the state, notify about breaches, can be sued if data is misused for e.g. racial profiling
While Facebook and Cambridge Analytica are hogging the spotlight, data brokers that collect your information from hundreds …
PayPal drops plan to build $3.6M, 400-worker facility in Charlotte, NC, over recent discriminatory LGBT law
repeal HB2 now. https://twitter.com/... Ryan C. Gordon / @icculus : GOP in house passed it in emergency session. Dems all walked out in protest in the senate. GOP governor signed it.pic.twitter.com/Y2...