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DC Court of Appeals Requires Environmental Review for Implementation of 5G
A federal appeals court has vacated and remanded the “arbitrary and capricious” Federal Communications Commission’s decision to allow AT&T Inc., Verizon, and other wireless carriers, cell phone facilities owners and operators to bypass historic preservation and environmental reviews for 5G networks. Continue reading
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Net neutrality and the drive to censor the internet
Under the current law, upheld by numerous court decisions and reaffirmed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in 2015, companies that provide internet access to users, known as internet service providers (ISPs), cannot block or impede their users’ access to any website or service. But the draft proposal published by FCC chairman Ajit Pai Wednesday,… Continue reading
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Video: The Internet is under attack!
The FCC wants to let companies like Verizon and Comcast censor and throttle the Internet. This is how we fight back. Continue reading
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Privatizing the Internet: US telecoms seek to make internet enhanced form of cable TV’
On Tuesday, January 14, the DC Court of Appeals struck down the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) “net neutrality” rules. This is one of the fundamental principles of the internet, meaning equal access to everything online. The initiative was pushed by Verizon, the largest mobile phone operator among telecom providers, which demanded that high-speed broadband providers… Continue reading
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US: The Monitoring of Our Phone Calls? Government Spooks May Be Listening
The American government is in fact collecting and storing virtually every phone call, purchases, email, text message, internet searches, social media communications, health information, employment history, travel and student records, and virtually all other information of every American. Continue reading
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Corpwatch: Six Telecom Companies Face Formal Complaint for Collusion With UK Spy Agency
Six global telecommunications companies – British Telecom, Interoute, Level Three, Verizon Enterprise, Viatel and Vodafone Cable – are the subject of a formal complaint by Privacy International for potential violation of human rights such as the right to privacy and freedom of expression. Continue reading
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Video: "A Massive Surveillance State": Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails
The National Security Agency has obtained access to the central servers of nine major Internet companies — including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! and Facebook. The Guardian and The Washington Post revealed the top-secret program, codenamed PRISM, after they obtained several slides from a 41-page training presentation for senior intelligence analysts. It explains how PRISM allows… Continue reading
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Video: “A Massive Surveillance State”: Glenn Greenwald Exposes Covert NSA Program Collecting Calls, Emails
The National Security Agency has obtained access to the central servers of nine major Internet companies — including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo! and Facebook. The Guardian and The Washington Post revealed the top-secret program, codenamed PRISM, after they obtained several slides from a 41-page training presentation for senior intelligence analysts. It explains how PRISM allows… Continue reading
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Verizon (and Google) Helped U.S. Government to Spy on Reporters By Pratap Chatterjee
Technology companies willingly provided information to U.S. government agencies to help the Obama administration snoop on reporters from the Associated Press (AP) and Fox news in order to ostensibly crack down on leaks that pose a “threat” to national security. Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 24 August 2011: Impotent Black Caucus / Corporate MLK Memorial / Heroic Libyan Soldiers
24 August 2011 — Black Agenda Report – News, commentary and analysis from the black left CBC: Impotent, Irrelevant, and Tied to the President in 2012, Even If Obama is the Black Herbert Hoover by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon Why does the Congressional Black Caucus, forty of the most senior members of the Continue reading
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What Should the Verizon Strikers Do? By Dave Stratman
Billionaire Warren Buffett said, “There is a class war in this country, and my class is winning.” These 45,000 Verizon employees, members of the CWA and IBEW, are on the front lines of the class war. They are fighting for us all. Continue reading
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Evil Inequality In the Works for the Web
The Internet and telecom giants Verizon and Google have reportedly reached an agreement that sells out net neutrality. They make it sound like a victory for fairness — they’ll stand by equal access for everyone on the wired web. But the arrangement, not yet public and arrived at in closed door meetings between the behemoths,… Continue reading
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A Roundup of Net Neutrality Stories 6 May – 7 August, 2010
7 August, 2010 — Net Neutrality 7/8/10 – Verizon & Google Enter Reported Deal for Tiered Internet Use, Is Net Neutrality in Jeopardy? 6/8/10 – Has the internet just sold its soul? By Stephen Foley 6/8/10 – Net neutrality talks stall in US 6/8/10 – Has the internet just sold its soul? 5/8/10 – Under Continue reading
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Has the internet just sold its soul? By Stephen Foley
Google stood accused last night of betraying the founding principles of the internet, as it readied a deal that will abandon key parts of its support for ‘net neutrality’, which has guaranteed equal access to the worldwide web since its inception. In what one internet freedom campaigner called a ‘doomsday scenario’ that will change the… Continue reading
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We Need To Put Our Foot Down On Net Neutrality By Justine Bateman
The list of restrictions…is currently the plan of the United States telecom companies, who are trying to erode a long-standing Internet principle — Net Neutrality — which keeps the Internet as an open platform. As it stands now, anyone can create and distribute content on the Web and anyone can access any number of sites… Continue reading
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