late stage capitalism Small business in Wisconsin cancels its unusably bad internet service from Frontier; Frontier demands $4,300 cancellation fee Cory Doctorow
telcoms Comcast's $1.2b/year modem-rental scam picks your pocket, then exposes you to hackers, stalkers and identity thieves Cory Doctorow
videos Help crowdfund the Harlem Cryptoparty and 100 unlimited, privacy-protecting wifi hotspots for Puerto Rico Cory Doctorow
Business AT&T: it's not "forced arbitration" because no one forced you to have broadband Cory Doctorow
privacy Senate votes to allow ISPs to collect and sell personal data without permission Rob Beschizza
Business Shadow Regulation: the secret laws that giant corporations cook up in back rooms Cory Doctorow
Business Time Warner Cable CEO Rob Marcus gets $92 million severance after 2.5 years on the job Xeni Jardin
web theory Sky censoring Ukrainian site, says it has "a white list of international media websites which are currently blocked" Cory Doctorow
politics Democrats propose making it illegal for telcos to shut off internet service in a pandemic Xeni Jardin
Technology Hackers say they breached Russian contractor, got details on IoT hacking project for Russia spy agency Xeni Jardin
law Trump's FCC won a terrible victory in last week's net neutrality ruling, but we're still winning the war Cory Doctorow
surveillance America's rotten ISPs object to encrypted DNS, argue that losing the ability to spy on your traffic puts them at a competitive disadvantage Cory Doctorow
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