FCC To End Broadband Discounts For Poor People After Republicans Undermine...
The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), part of the 2021 infrastructure bill, currently provides 23 million low-income Americans a $30 broadband discount. While it didn’t get much hype, that’s...
View ArticleWas The NO AI FRAUD Act Written By A Fraudulent AI? Because Whoever Wrote It...
A couple of weeks ago, a friend sent me Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar’s and Rep. Madeleine Dean’s proposed NO AI FRAUD Act, which purports to “protect Americans’ individual right to their likeness and...
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Daily Deal: Nix Mini 2 Color-Matching Sensor
Color is everywhere and, with the innovative Nix Mini 2, you can now capture and recreate it anywhere you go. This compact, portable, and highly sophisticated device is designed for those who find...
View ArticleDOJ Report Calls Botched Uvalde School Shooting Response A Series Of...
Any school shooting is horrific. But the Uvalde school shooting went far beyond the usual nightmarish levels of something that happens so often in the United States, we can actually use the modifier...
View ArticleFreshman State Lawmaker Wants To Ban Porn In Oklahoma
A far-right state lawmaker in the Oklahoma state legislature has started his first term on the civil liberties shortbus. Sen. Dusty Deevers, a Republican lawmaker and Southern Baptist pastor,...
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Streisand Effect Still Applies Even If You Steal Every Copy Of A Newspaper To...
I don’t think I’ve ever had so many people send me a “Streisand Effect” story as the one about a small town having nearly every copy of a newspaper stolen. Many people assumed that the culprit who...
View ArticleJudge Reminds Deputies They Can’t Arrest Someone Just Because They Don’t Like...
It shouldn’t need to be said, but it bears repeating: the First Amendment definitely protects speech the listener doesn’t like. This holds true even if the one doing the speaking is personally and...
View ArticleFractured Streaming Services Don’t Suck Enough To Keep The NFL’s Peacock...
There can’t really be much doubting the fact that the fracturing of streaming content and the silos that are being built around that content are not a good thing. Examples of what was an ecosystem that...
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