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For fifty years or so, U.S. media academics warned anybody who would listen about the perils of letting your media companies consolidate in the hands of a bunch of rich assholes and giant, amoral c ...

Cory Gardner, who spent a decade as a Republican senator, has been freshly announced as the CEO of the NCTA-The Internet & Television Association-the cable industry's biggest ...

New data from the UK's age verification rollout provides hard evidence of what internet governance experts have been warning about for years: these laws don't protect children--they syst ...

Good lord, here comes another act of preemptive cowardice in service of ensuring the most powerful man in the world enjoys his appearance before a crowd he can't control or doesn't own.

A longtime open internet activist recently asked me whether I'd reversed my position on internet openness and copyright because of AI. The question caught me off guard--until I realized what h ...

Achieve picture perfection with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2025. You can create with stylish effects and templates, and be creative on the go. With the magic of AI and automation behind the scenes, i ...

I, for one, cannot wait for the commenters to show up to call this headline hyperbole. mfers please. Why don't you just read it for yourselves, in your own god-king's words and images:

Last year Trump Republicans killed a popular program that provided poor people with $30 off of their monthly broadband bill. The FCC's Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) had broad, bipartisan su ...

Five Years Ago This week in 2020, AT&T was hypocritically calling for Section 230 reform and astroturfing the FCC in support of Trump's attack on social media, while we submitted FCC comm ...

For years, scientific researchers have warned that Elon Musk's Starlink low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite broadband constellations are harming scientific research. Simply put, the light pollutio ...