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Net Neutrality
The FCC is being asked to restore net neutrality rules | The Verge
# 🇺🇸✌️😆🇪🇺💻 let’s make together the trend to hop, w@rldwide ~ The Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy has a lot of asks for the FCC and FTC, including restoring net neutrality, and collecting data from ISPs on how much they charge customers. — Read on http://www.theverge.com/2021/7/9/22570567/biden-net-neutrality-competition-eo
@ElonMusk Plans to #Launch 4,425 #Satellites to #provide #Global #Internet from #Space | thehackernews.com | # ! ✌#‿@ …
Elon Musk’s SpaceX wants to Launch 4,425 Satellites to provide Global Internet Service from Space | Mohit Kumar | ______________ # ! ✌#‿@ Just #imagine a (#real, #affordable, #ubiquitous) #Internet for every@ne ~ [# ! Note: This is NOT Outernet…] ______ [Source: Elon Musk Plans to Launch 4,425 Satellites to provide Global Internet from Space]
AT&T has $80 billion deal to purchase Time Warner Inc. (and with it, HBO) | Ars Technica | # ! 8-) $$!! …
Owning Time Warner would boost AT&T media ambitions, raise competition concerns. | Jon Brodkin | _____________ # ! … 😎 $$!! .. this kind of #mergers not only #damage #customers (Pe@ple) # ! but, also, #throttles the #contents supply*… # ! They shouldn’t be allowed. [* As it already happened with the Music Labels, in … Continue reading
#Nashville #Council #Member #Admits #AT&T & #Comcast #Wrote The #AntiGoogle #Fiber #Bill She Submitted | Techdirt | # ! …
from the hired-marionettes dept We’ve been talking about how the next great battlefield in broadband is utility pole attachment reform. In many cities, the incumbent broadband provider owns the utility poles, giving them a perfect opportunity to hinder competitors. | Karl Bode | ___________ # ! … while lobbying -buying politicians- keep on been legal, … Continue reading
democracyforsale.eu | #DemocracyForSale #awards: The #hidden #powers co-writing #TTIP | # ! Let’s…
¿Cuál es el #lobby con más influencia en el #TTIP? ¡VOTA AHORA y elige al ganador! #democracyforsale | Democracy For Sale | ___________________ # ! … make ’em know that we know it. # ! And that we want (democratically demand) a Clean #Politics # ! by the people (not the big companies)’s side. … Continue reading
#Internet #wins: La #NeutralidaddelaRed #vence en #Europa | xnet-x.net | # ! ✌@‿@ …
Xnet y demás organizaciones tras la campaña SavetheInternet.eu celebran hoy la victoria de la neutralidad de la red. Con base en una primera lectura, las nuevas directrices del Organismo de Reguladores Europeos de Comunicaciones Electronicas (BEREC) confirman una protección fuerte para la neutralidad de la red, y para el internet abierto y libre, en … Continue reading
#European #Copyright Leak Exposes #Plans to #Force the #Internet to #Subsidize #Publishers | EFF.org | # ! :/ #error: …
A just-leaked draft impact assessment on the modernization of European copyright rules could spell the end for many online services in Europe as we know them. The document’s recommendations foreshadow new a EU Directive on copyright to be introduced later this year, that will ultimately bind each of the European Union’s 28 member states. If … Continue reading
#Rightscorp #Threatens #Every #ISP in the United States | TorrentFreak | # ! A #sad #precedent…
Following a court win by its client BMG over Cox Communications this week, Rightscorp has issued an unprecedented warning to every ISP in the United States today. Boasting a five-year trove of infringement data against Internet users, Rightscorp warned ISPs that they can either cooperate or face the consequences. | Andy | __________ # ! … Continue reading
Why #Tech Is #Eating the #Music #Industry | digitalmusicnews.com | # ! Perhaps…
5 out of the top 6 most powerful companies in the world are ‘tech’. Zero out of the 6 are music or media companies. Any questions? | Paul Resnikoff | ____________________ # ! … #Entertainment #Industry -as a whole- is not doing its job… (# ! Another sad chapter in the #HollywoodvsSiliconValley ‘#SoapOpera’..) ________ … Continue reading
El #brexit #empaña el #tratado #comercial entre la #UE y #EstadosUnidos | elperiodicodemexico.com | # ! Tal vez, …
VIKTORIA DENDRINOU, The Wall Street Journal BRUSELAS (EFE Dow Jones)–La decisión de Reino Unido de abandonar la Unión Europea ha arrojado más dudas sobre el futuro de un tratado comercial de gran alcance entre la UE y Estados Unidos. Los dos mayores bloques económicos del mundo han estado negociando la Asociación Transatlántica para el Comercio … Continue reading
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