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Trump administration petitions FCC on social media content rules
A U.S. Commerce Department agency on Monday petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to reinterpret a 1996 law to require transparency in how social media companies moderate content, after President Donald Trump asked it to intervene in the matter.
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Here’s Trump’s Plan To Regulate Social Media
President Trump wants to make the FCC rewrite the 1996 law that made social media possible to make it difficult-to-impossible for social media to be mean to the president.
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Ajit Pai is making lots of enemies on the road to 5G
FCC chief Ajit Pai is angering a lot of powerful people as his chairmanship hits its fourth and potentially final year. The Pentagon, the Commerce Department and the Department of Transportation. Electric utilities, airlines and the auto industry. Public safety officials and weather forecasters. Top lawmakers of both parties, including an ally of President Donald Trump’s who controls the FCC’s purse strings on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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FCC commissioner: Our agency says all Americans are gaining advanced Internet access. It's wrong
The Covid-19 pandemic has us heading online for work, school, and healthcare like never before. Having reliable Internet access means having a fighting chance at maintaining some semblance of modern life.
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Verizon refuses to give DSL users its low-income deals during pandemic
Verizon is one of numerous home-Internet providers offering temporarily free service to low-income households during the pandemic. But a big restriction on Verizon's offer makes it impossible for many people to get the deal. The Verizon problem is one of several that's been pointed out by advocates for poor people at the nonprofit National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA).
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FCC will require phone carriers to authenticate calls by June 2021
The FCC announced today all carriers and phone companies must adopt the STIR/SHAKEN protocol by June 30th, 2021. The regulatory requirement is designed to combat robocalls, specifically those that try to hide their phone numbers by allowing carriers to authenticate caller IDs.
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Clarence Thomas regrets ruling that Ajit Pai used to kill net neutrality
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas wants a do-over on his 2005 decision in a case that had a major impact on the power of federal agencies and regulation of the broadband industry. In National Cable & Telecommunications Association v. Brand X Internet Services, better known as Brand X, Thomas wrote the 6-3 majority opinion that upheld a Federal Communications Commission decision to classify cable broadband as an information service.
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FCC forced to ask for public feedback on net neutrality repeal
A senior FCC Commissioner urges the public to "make some noise."
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Forcing us to get consent before selling browser histories violates our free speech, US ISPs claim
The US state of Maine is violating internet broadband providers' free speech by forcing them to ask for their customers’ permission to sell their browser history, according to a new lawsuit. The case was brought this month by four telco industry groups in response to a new state-level law aimed at providing Maine residents with privacy protections killed at the federal level by the FCC just days before they were due to take effect.
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Scientists Sue FCC for Dismissing Studies Linking Cell Phone Radiation to Cancer
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist has filed a lawsuit alleging the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) failed to update cellular phone and wireless radiofrequency (RF) radiation limits and cellular phone testing methods in over two decades. These failures, the plaintiffs contend, ignore “peer-reviewed scientific studies showing that radiation from cell phones and cell phone towers and transmitters is associated with severe health effects in humans, including cancer, DNA damage, damage to the reproductive organs, and brain damage (including memory problems).”
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FCC Confirms 'One or More' Carriers Broke the Law Selling Location Data
More than a year after a Motherboard investigation revealed that wireless carriers were collecting and selling user location data to often dubious data brokers who then sold it to bounty hunters, the head of the FCC is finally acknowledging that at least one and possibly several wireless carriers broke the law.
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Major ISPs colluded with FCC to lie about their internet speeds: report
Consumers whose internet connection speed was tested also received special treatment, WSJ reports.
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The new Mac Pro gets FCC approval ahead of launch [update: rack mounted model too]
The Mac Pro has appeared today on the FCC registry site, with its regulatory testing information publicly released. This usually means a product launch is imminent. Apple has said that the Mac Pro will be released ‘this fall’. The FCC filing indicates it has a A1991 model number. The professional workstation machine will be manufactured in Austin, Texas, like the previous trashcan iteration.
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Ajit Pai Says FCC's Investigation into Sale of Phone Location Data Nearly Complete
Motherboard previously revealed how AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon have sold real-time phone location data to middlemen companies which then provided it to third parties.
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FCC sued by dozens of cities after voting to kill local fees and rules
Cities challenge FCC vote to preempt local fees and broadband regulations.
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Why Ajit Pai’s “unhinged” net neutrality repeal was upheld by judges
Judges reluctantly accepted claim that broadband isn't "telecommunications."
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Study Proves The FCC's Core Justification for Killing Net Neutrality Was False
A new study has found the FCC’s primary justification for repealing net neutrality was indisputably false. For years, big ISPs and Trump FCC boss Ajit Pai have told anyone who’d listen that the FCC’s net neutrality rules, passed in 2015 and repealed last year in a flurry of controversy and alleged fraud, dramatically stifled broadband investment across the United States. Repeal the rules, Pai declared, and US broadband investment would explode.
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How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network for 37 hours, knackering 911 calls, VoIP, broadband
A handful of bad network packets triggered a massive chain reaction that crippled the entire network of US telco CenturyLink for roughly a day and a half. This is according to the FCC's official probe [PDF] into the December 2018 super-outage, during which CenturyLink's broadband internet and VoIP services fell over and stayed down for a total of 37 hours. This meant subscribers couldn't, among other things, call 911 over VoIP at the time – which is a violation of FCC rules, and triggered a formal investigation.
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FCC proposes new 3-digit number as Suicide Prevention Hotline
The Federal Communications Commission has proposed a three-digit number for the National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 988. The federal agency's staff made the recommendation this week in a report to Congress, finding that using a shorter and easier to remember number "would likely make it easier for Americans in crisis to access potentially life-saving resources."
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FCC Retesting iPhone And Galaxy Phones For Radiation Following Investigation
A new investigation into the radiation levels popular smartphones give off has put some smartphone makers on the defensive. The Chicago Tribune and a team of scientists conducted studies on a variety of iPhones and Samsung Galaxy devices, including the iPhones 7, 8, 8 Plus, and X, as well as a the Galaxy S8, S9, and J3. In the testing, which also included phones from Motorola and BLU, the scientists examined whether the phones were emitting more radiation than allowed by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) guidelines.
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