Facebook Says: Give Us Your Data or Pay For Facebook That is a slight paraphrase, but not much. In light of Apple’s new requirement to ask users for their permission to steal their data, Facebook and others are mounting a full assault on their users. First of all, Facebook grossed $26 billion in the first […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]France Says it is Going Ahead with Digital Tax France has been complaining that U.S. companies (mostly) have not been paying their fair share of French taxes since they are not selling widgets that delivered in France, so they came up with this digital tax, a 3% tax on digital services delivered in France. They […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The President signed an executive order a few months ago asking the FCC to look at whether social media companies like Twitter should lose their “section 230 immunity” if they are biased in their editing. It also asks the FCC to propose regulations regarding this. That was about six months ago. I suspect that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FCC to Investigate Centurylink In an example of “can you believe this”, Ajit Pai, who earlier this year said that the FCC can’t regulate Internet providers wants to investigate why Internet provider Centurylink had an outage today that affected 911 call centers across the country. Centurylink, who told people earlier today that if they had […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In general, the U.S. ranks below many third world countries in the speed, quality and cost of Internet access. If you ask your neighbors what they think about the price, speed and customer service of their internet provider , you will generally not get a positive answer. My brother lives in Europe and his internet […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last year the FCC proposed a rule requiring Internet Providers to get your permission before selling your data. The rule was set to go into effect in April. The large ISPs – AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and others – didn’t like this rule since it affected their revenue. They said that Facebook and Google didn’t need […]
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