late stage capitalism Telcoms lobbyists have convinced 26 states to ban or restrict municipal broadband Cory Doctorow
Business Charter/Spectrum sold customers expensive home security systems, then killed the program and left them high and dry Cory Doctorow
kentucky One of the poorest, most desperate regions in Appalachia is experiencing an economic miracle thanks to fiber run by a New Deal-era co-op Cory Doctorow
law Trump's FCC won a terrible victory in last week's net neutrality ruling, but we're still winning the war Cory Doctorow
News 2020 Elections: Ransomware attacks on voter registration databases and systems feared by cybersecurity officials Xeni Jardin
usausausa Small town, independent and municipally owned ISPs offer America's best connectivity Cory Doctorow
web theory Traverse City, MI braves the wrath of telcoms lobbyists, pushes ahead with municipal fiber network Cory Doctorow
finance Comcast fights shareholder call for lobbying transparency, saying that it would be "burdensome" to reveal how much it spends lobbying states Cory Doctorow
corruption The government of Baltimore has been taken hostage by ransomware and may remain shut down for weeks Cory Doctorow
happy mutants America's Fiber Future: Susan Crawford on how America's wired future is slipping away Cory Doctorow
Business Comcast cranks up extra charges on cable bills, again, even for people who signed contracts promising a lower rate Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism AT&T disconnects whole families from the internet because someone in their house is accused of copyright infringement Cory Doctorow
gop After killing disaster-recovery rules, Ajit Pai can't understand why carriers aren't helping hurricane-hit Florida Cory Doctorow
cable company fuckery Everybody hates their cable company, unless the company is Google, or the city, or a tiny mom-and-pop Cory Doctorow
law Lobbyist for AT&T and Verizon publishes a threat to "aggressively" sue any states that pass net neutrality laws Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Washington State lawmaker thinks the courts will uphold state Net Neutrality law because the FCC abdicated its duty Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism Big Telco hates "regulation," but they love their billions in government handouts Cory Doctorow
videos Cable operator Fidelity Communications admits it that secretly created the fake-grassroots "Stop City-Funded Internet" campaign to kill Missouri municipal net Cory Doctorow
