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https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2018/fcc-chairman-boosts-telecom-companies-throws-silicon-valley-under-the-bus · 5 Sep 2018
There's absolutely a legitimate conversation to be had here in terms of what to do about privacy and speech in the Facebook and Twitter era. And that may or may not involve crafting new regulations. But it might be nice if people wised up to the fact that ...
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2018/time-to-break-up-facebook · 4 Sep 2018
...the chilling effect of Facebook and other tech giants buying up every promising startup is noticeable. 'I think if we have a tech economy entirely premised on the idea that monopolists may one day buy the underlying thing, it really limits what can happ...
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2018/california-passes-net-neutrality-bill · 3 Sep 2018
S.B. 822 bans blocking, throttling, and paid prioritization, classic ways that companies have violated net neutrality principles. It also incorporates much of what the FCC learned and incorporated into the 2015 Open Internet Order, preventing new assaults ...
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2018/ca-net-neutrality-bill-back-on-track · 10 Aug 2018
The bill enshrines not only the fundamentals of net neutrality, such as prohibiting ISPs from throttling or blocking sites, but also prohibits other telecom trickery, such as zero rating—a practice where companies provide access to certain parts of the i...
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2018/oig-report-fcc-lied-about-being-hacked · 8 Aug 2018
The OIG report shows that Pai knew from the start that the story of a hack-attack was unsupported by evidence and disputed by experts -- we knew that too, because those experts were speaking publicly at the time, but it's great to see it in official black-...
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2018/fcc-admits-its-site-was-never-hacked · 7 Aug 2018
No one seriously believed the FCC's hackers-ate-my-homework excuse, especially after the FCC refused to cooperate with law-enforcement agencies who wanted to investigate the supposed attack and stonewalling Congress on the details.
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2018/dont-pin-your-political-hopes-on-tech-giants · 2 Aug 2018
Elon Musk donates to Republicans, Facebook donates to Republicans. This doesn't excuse Musk, however. If anything, it should deepen the growing sense that Silicon Valley is concerned first and foremost with its continued survival and success, and doesn't g...
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2018/fbi-once-again-compares-creating-encryption-back-doors-to-putting-a-man-on-the-moon · 25 Jul 2018
We're a country that has unbelievable innovation. We put a man on the moon. We have the power of flight. We have autonomous vehicles… [T]he idea that we can't solve this problem as a society -- I just don't buy it.
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2018/ca-net-neutrality-bill-makes-a-comeback · 8 Jul 2018
After compromise, nation's toughest net neutrality bill back on track.
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2018/comcast-throttling-mobile-video-and-charging-extra-for-high-quality-streaming · 3 Jul 2018
Comcast's Xfinity Mobile service is imposing new speed limits on video watching and personal hotspot usage, and the company will start charging extra for high-definition video over the cellular network.