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The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has a new Chair, Brendan Carr, and his priorities are quickly taking shape. The FCC is responsible for universal access to communications. Hear from former FCC Chair, Tom Wheeler, on the power of the chairmanship to shape the future priorities for American consumers and businesses, and what's in store for the independent agency under the Trump administration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Brendan Carr, the head of Trump’s FCC which regulates networks like ABC News — producer of ‘The View’ — just sent a strong message to Whoopi Goldberg. Plus, Trump responds to reporters after kicking Zelensky out of the White House as Zelensky refuses to apologize on Fox News. Those stories and more in today’s second live edition of The Trish Regan Show. SUBSCRIBE https://Youtube.com/TrishReganChannel

The Trump Administration's FCC Chair, Brendan Carr, has already made some moves when it comes to media.Only two days on the job, Carr reinstated complaints against ABC, CBS, and NBC for bias against Trump during the 2024 election. Last Thursday, he ordered an investigation into NPR and PBS for allegedly running advertisements.We discuss how the FCC regulates media and protects free speech. Want to support 1A? Give to your local public radio station and subscribe to this podcast. Have questions? Connect with us. Listen to 1A sponsor-free by signing up for 1A+ at plus.npr.org/the1a.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

Incompetence is the problem. Must have high standards. FCC Chair orders investigation into NPR and PBS. more Trump cabinet hearing with Tulsi and Patel.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Incompetence is the problem. Must have high standards. FCC Chair orders investigation into NPR and PBS. more Trump cabinet hearing with Tulsi and Patel.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Incompetence is the problem. Must have high standards. FCC Chair orders investigation into NPR and PBS. more Trump cabinet hearing with Tulsi and Patel.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Trump wins standoff with Colombia over illegal aliens, Kash Patel, RFK Jr, and Tulsi Gabbard to testify before the Senate this week, FCC Chair Brendan Carr and Senator Eric Schmitt joins the show Check Out Our Partners: American Financing: Save with https://www.americanfinancing.net/benny NMLS: 182334, http://www.nmlsconsumeraccess.org Blackout Coffee: http://www.blackoutcoffee.com/benny and use coupon code BENNY for 20% OFF your first order Patriot Mobile: Go to https://www.PatriotMobile.com/Benny and get A FREE MONTH Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pags unpacks President-elect Trump's strategy to overhaul the DOJ and revisit the 2020 election. Plus, Brendan Carr, newly appointed FCC Chair, joins to tackle George Soros's rumored radio station buyout, the future of Section 230, and his plans to reshape legacy media. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The new appointee for the head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has stated plans to dismantle the “censorship cartel.” President-elect Donald Trump has appointed Brendan Carr as the incoming FCC chairman. His appointment could include actions against Big Tech companies and the network that has been used to facilitate censorship of news outlets, independent voices, and online speech. We'll discuss this topic and others, in this episode of Crossroads. Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.     ⭕️

Plus, Trump picks Brendan Carr as FCC Chair. And Roblox adds parental controls. Belle Lin hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Roblox rolls out new parental controls, Casio launches smart ring in Japan, Google reportedly working on new “shielded email” option. MP3 Please SUBSCRIBE HERE. You can get an ad-free feed of Daily Tech Headlines for $3 a month here. A special thanks to all our supporters–without you, none of this would be possible. Big thanksContinue reading "FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr Tapped For FCC Chair -DTH"

Brendan Carr has been tapped by President-elect Trump to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Carr, a current FCC commissioner, has pledged to dismantle what he calls the "censorship cartel" and overhaul how broadcast and tech media are regulated. Carr also co-authored the FCC section of the right-wing "Project 2025," which aims to target big tech, cut diversity and equity efforts, and consider pulling TV licenses for content deemed not in the public interest. Critics warn that this agenda, coupled with Carr's ties to Elon Musk, could open doors to punishing media voices and stifling speech that challenges Trump's narrative. By scaling back diversity efforts and potentially revoking TV and radio licenses based on content, his policies could restrict platforms and even suppress Black voices or dissenting perspectives, also threatening hard-won progress in media representation and equitable access. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler joins Lawfare Tarbell Fellow Kevin Frazier and Lawfare Senior Editor Alan Rozenshtein to discuss the latest developments in AI governance. Building off his book, “Techlash: Who Makes the Rules in the Digital Gilded Age?” Wheeler makes the case for a more agile approach to regulating AI and other emerging technology. This approach would likely require the creation of a new agency. Wheeler points out that current agencies lack the culture, structure, and personnel required to move at the speed of new technologies. He also explores the pros and cons of the Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group's roadmap for AI policy. While Wheeler praises the collaboration that went into the roadmap, he acknowledges that it may lack sufficient focus on the spillover effects of more AI development and deployment. To receive ad-free podcasts, become a Lawfare Material Supporter at www.patreon.com/lawfare. You can also support Lawfare by making a one-time donation at https://givebutter.com/c/trumptrials.Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/lawfare. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel talked about the agency's efforts to address the broadband gap with "precision" and why she's "optimistic" about the prospect for progress. Then, Brookings Institution's Nicol Turner Lee and CareJourney CEO Aneesh Chopra discuss ways to ensure that the rapidly changing digital era does not leave underserved communities behind. Conversation recorded on Friday, April 26, 2024.

The Federal Communications Commission will vote tomorrow to re-impose net neutrality, controversial regulations that require internet service providers to treat all websites equally. Ajit Pai is the former Republican FCC chair who took them away back in 2017. And he joins POLITICO Tech host Steven Overly to challenge Democrats' reasons for bringing the rules back -- even as he says most Americans have moved on. 

The Federal Communications Commission will vote next week to restore regulations that require internet service providers to treat websites equally, otherwise known as net neutrality. Tom Wheeler was the chair of the FCC the last time those rules were put in place. He joins POLITICO Tech host Steven Overly to talk about how artificial intelligence gives new life to this old policy battle.

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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 2: Phil Kerpen—President of American Commitment—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his most recent editorial, “FCC Chair's Bad Wi-Fi is Not a Reason to Regulate the Internet.” Kerpen writes: “For two years, starting in 2015, the FCC regulated Internet service providers as public utilities in the name of net neutrality. When the Trump FCC under Chairman Ajit Pai proposed to repeal those Obama-era regulations, the media and other Democrats unleashed a series of apocalyptic predictions.” Disturbingly, earlier this month, “[FCC chair Jessica] Rosenworcel announced a new proposed rule almost identical to the short-lived Obama rule…The new proposal even explicitly reserves the right to engage in ex-post rate regulation, deciding after the fact that a company charged too much for a service.” You can read Kerpen's editorial here: https://www.americancommitment.org/fcc-chairs-bad-wi-fi-is-not-a-reason-to-regulate-the-internet/ Has Governor Phil Murphy (D-NJ) actually done something good? According to a report from Brady Knox of The Washington Examiner: “Earlier in October, Dr. Ronald G. Taylor, superintendent of schools for the South Orange-Maplewood School District, sent a letter to parents announcing that no Halloween celebrations would be held by the school district, claiming that doing so may ‘violate the dignity of some of our students and families, either culturally or religiously.' The cancellation of the holiday was bashed by the governor.” You can read the full article here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/new-jersey-murphy-slams-school-canceling-halloween Dave McCormick—Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania & former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs during the George W. Bush Administration—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to talk about his campaign to unseat Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA). During the interview, he emphasizes the need for continued U.S. support for Israel as the country wages war against Hamas terrorists. McCormick also reacts to news that Rep. Mike Johnson has been elected Speaker of the House. You can learn more about his campaign here: https://www.davemccormickpa.com

The Rich Zeoli Show- Full Episode (10/25/2023): 3:05pm- On Wednesday, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) became the 56th Speaker of the House of Representatives with a 220 to 209 floor vote—ending three-weeks of Republican infighting with unanimous support for his candidacy. In his first speech as Speaker from the House floor, Johnson vowed to “ensure that our republic remains standing as the great beacon of hope, light, and freedom in a world that desperately needs it.” 3:15pm- During civil-fraud trial proceedings on Wednesday, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron fined Donald Trump $10,000 for comments that violated a previously established gag order. Earlier this month, Judge Engoron barred Trump from criticizing members of the court after the former president jokingly referred to a law clerk as Chuck Schumer's girlfriend in a social media post. You can read more about the story here: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/trump-called-to-witness-stand-fined-for-out-of-court-comments-30a3f1ea?mod=hp_lead_pos8 3:35pm- While accepting the House Republican nomination to be Speaker of the House, following an internal vote on Tuesday night, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) told the press that “democracy is messy sometimes” but ensured that House Republicans are once again “united.” On Wednesday, he earned all 220 House Republican votes to become the 56th Speaker of the House of Representatives. 3:50pm- While leaving a New York City courthouse, former President Donald Trump congratulated Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA)—telling reporters Johnson “will be a great Speaker of the House.” 4:05pm- Phil Kerpen—President of American Commitment—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss his most recent editorial, “FCC Chair's Bad Wi-Fi is Not a Reason to Regulate the Internet.” Kerpen writes: “For two years, starting in 2015, the FCC regulated Internet service providers as public utilities in the name of net neutrality. When the Trump FCC under Chairman Ajit Pai proposed to repeal those Obama-era regulations, the media and other Democrats unleashed a series of apocalyptic predictions.” Disturbingly, earlier this month, “[FCC chair Jessica] Rosenworcel announced a new proposed rule almost identical to the short-lived Obama rule…The new proposal even explicitly reserves the right to engage in ex-post rate regulation, deciding after the fact that a company charged too much for a service.” You can read Kerpen's editorial here: https://www.americancommitment.org/fcc-chairs-bad-wi-fi-is-not-a-reason-to-regulate-the-internet/ 4:25pm- Has Governor Phil Murphy (D-NJ) actually done something good? According to a report from Brady Knox of The Washington Examiner: “Earlier in October, Dr. Ronald G. Taylor, superintendent of schools for the South Orange-Maplewood School District, sent a letter to parents announcing that no Halloween celebrations would be held by the school district, claiming that doing so may ‘violate the dignity of some of our students and families, either culturally or religiously.' The cancellation of the holiday was bashed by the governor.” You can read the full article here: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/education/new-jersey-murphy-slams-school-canceling-halloween 4:40pm- Dave McCormick—Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania & former Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs during the George W. Bush Administration—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to talk about his campaign to unseat Sen. Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA). During the interview, he emphasizes the need for continued U.S. support for Israel as the country wages war against Hamas terrorists. McCormick also reacts to news that Rep. Mike Johnson has been elected Speaker of the House. You can learn more about his campaign here: https://www.davemccormickpa.com 5:00pm- Bryan Clark—Senior Fellow and Director at the Center for Defense Concepts and Technology at the Hudson Institute & former U.S. Navy Submariner—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss the Pentagon's decision to move the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier, and its strike group, to the Middle East in support of the USS Gerald Ford as a deterrent to Iranian aggression. Will this be enough to dissuade Iranian proxies, like Hezbollah, from asserting themselves into the war between Israel and Hamas? 5:30pm- Rich notices something new at Wegmans—preferred pronouns prominently displayed on employee name tags. PLUS, did Matt unknowingly eat sheep cheese while vacationing in Italy? Speaking of Italy, Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has separated from her boyfriend of 10-years after he was caught on tape propositioning another woman for a “threesome or foursome.” 5:40pm- During civil-fraud trial proceedings on Wednesday, New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron fined Donald Trump $10,000 for comments that violated a previously established gag order. Earlier this month, Judge Engoron barred Trump from criticizing members of the court after the former president jokingly referred to a law clerk as Chuck Schumer's girlfriend in a social media post. You can read more about the story here: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/trump-called-to-witness-stand-fined-for-out-of-court-comments-30a3f1ea?mod=hp_lead_pos8 6:05pm- On Wednesday, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) became the 56th Speaker of the House of Representatives with a 220 to 209 floor vote—ending three-weeks of Republican infighting with unanimous support for his candidacy. In his first speech as Speaker from the House floor, Johnson vowed to “ensure that our republic remains standing as the great beacon of hope, light, and freedom in a world that desperately needs it.” MSNBC condemned the selection of Johnson citing his expressed doubts about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. However, didn't MSNBC spend years expressing similar doubts about the legitimacy of Donald Trump's election victory in 2016—baselessly blaming Russian interference? 6:10pm- Many progressive media outlets and politicians, including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, have denounced Mike Johnson's speakership—referring to him as an “election denier.” On X, President of American Commitment Phil Kerpen highlights the hypocrisy, noting that following the 2016 election Jeffries' tweeted: “The more we learn about 2016 election the more illegitimate it becomes. America deserves to know whether we have a fake president in the Oval Office #RussianInterference.” 6:15pm- While accepting the House Republican nomination to be Speaker of the House, following an internal vote on Tuesday night, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) told the press that “democracy is messy sometimes” but ensured that House Republicans are once again “united.” On Wednesday, he earned all 220 House Republican votes to become the 56thSpeaker of the House of Representatives. 6:20pm- Brooke Singman of Fox News reports: “The FBI maintained more than 40 confidential human sources on various criminal matters related to the Biden family, including Joe Biden, dating back to his time as vice president, according to information obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley…Grassley learned that an FBI task force within the Washington Field Office sought to, and in some cases, successfully, shut down reporting and information from those sources by falsely discrediting the information as foreign disinformation. That effort ‘caused investigative activity to cease.'” You can read the full report here: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fbi-received-criminal-information-40-confidential-sources-joe-biden-hunter-jim-grassley 6:25pm- During a campaign in Derry, New Hampshire, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump recalled when Joe Biden threatened to “take [Trump] behind a barn.” In response to the comment, Trump joked that Biden had a fake nose and that if the two ever fought there “would be plastic everywhere.” 6:40pm- In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday, more than forty states allege that Meta—parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has harmed children, fueling a national mental health crisis in the process. The lawsuit accuses Meta of violating state consumer protections. You can read more here: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/24/states-sue-meta-addictive-features-kids-00123217

President Biden joins UAW picket line Michigan, House and Senate taking different approaches on federal spending four days before a possible government shutdown, FCC Chair moves to reinstate net neutrality rules, more Democratic Senators call for Sen. Menendez to resign over federal bribery charges. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Closing the digital divide. It's a topic that the FCC under Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel has put front-and-center, but getting to where the U.S. is today with respect to broadband infrastructure involved former acting Chair Mignon Clyburn and ex-Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein.What they had to say on the subject, along with key topics impacting multicultural and minority radio and television broadcasters, was the focus of this year's annual Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council (MMTC) Former FCC Chairs' Symposium.Former Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate served as moderator for the discussion, hosted by President/CEO Robert Branson.What did Adelstein and Clyburn have to share? They offered their thoughts alongside the pioneering former FCC Chair Dick Wiley during the July 25 Zoom event, which saw Rep. Steven Horsford (D-Nev.) skillfully ignore a "bomber" who interrupted his address with expletives and a death threat.In this InFOCUS Podcast, presented by dot.FM, RBR+TVBR is pleased to offer excerpts from the conversation.

Another day in the United States of Serfs and Lords. Dems are silent and still haven't confirmed Gigi Sohn as FCC Chair amid filthy fascist attacks. Ron DeSantis's Attack on Black Studies Is Textbook Proto-Fascism Stop cowering before half-wit fascist Ron Desantis George Santos cries "victim" of course. We discuss the madness! ______________________________________ Frustrated enough about government policy to want to do something about it? Join "Shaping Progress," the organization founded by Tarabuster's millennial corresponded Mark Middlestaedt: Check out Shaping Progress here: https://shapingprogress.online/ _________ Join Rokfin to access exclusive tarabuster content as well as Ron Placone, Lee Camp, and more! https://rokfin.com/tarabuster BECOME A "TARABUSTER" PATRON: www.patreon.com/taradevlin Join the Tarabuster community on Discord too!! https://discord.gg/PRYDBx8 Buy some Resistance Merch and help support our progressive work! http://tarabustermerch.com/ Donate to Tarabuster: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/taradacktyl We discuss the madness. __________

Stocks kicking off a new month in the red after more evidence the labor market remains resilient, which could force the Federal Reserve to maintain its hawkish stance to curb inflation. Macropolicy Perspectives' Julia Coronado says investors will be disappointed if they are expecting an outright dovish message from the Fed when it announces its interest rate decision tomorrow. Elon Musk announcing the new pricing for Twitter Blue. Evercore ISI's Mark Mahaney reacts to that news as well as how social media stocks are being impacted by the FCC Chair's call to ban TikTok in the U.S. Kindred Ventures Founder Steve Jang, who was an early investor in Uber, discusses the company's revenue beat and what he thinks will be the next Uber. JMP Securities CEO Mark Lehmann discusses why he is now so bullish on software stocks. And Hologic CEO Steve MacMillan breaks down the medical technology company's strong earnings and what is driving unprecedented strength across its core businesses.

Your entire life is an open book of information collected by tech companies. According to Tom Wheeler, former head of the Federal Communications Commission, the privacy problem is shockingly large, getting bigger, and has frightening consequences. What, if anything, can be done? Listen and find out.

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FCC Chair is looking to reclassify “high speed” broadband, but are the new speeds actually competitive? Google is playing another dumb game with app names. Texas is struggle to support crypto mining. Elon Musk faces a tough judge on the Twitter case. Uber faces a scary number of assault claims. The James Webb Space Telescope’s … Continue reading "#SGGQA 259: FCC and Broadband Ratings, Google Duo Becomes Meet, M2 Macbook and Nothing Phone Reactions, Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 Performance roundup!"

Last week, The Buzz explored some of the complexities of ensuring affordable, reliable internet access to all Americans - as well as how the 2021 Investment Infrastructure and Jobs Act looks to improve this. This week, The Buzz gets some perspective from someone who played a key role at the federal level in overseeing the regulation and development of modern broadband infrastructure - Tom Wheeler. Wheeler is a businessman, author, and was Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) from 2013 to 2017. Subscribe on your favorite podcast platform to never miss an episode! For more from ACT-IAC, follow us on Twitter @ACTIAC or visit http://www.actiac.org.

In honor of Mr. Minow's birthday (01/17), we're re-releasing our interview with the former FCC Chair. Joining us from his office in Chicago, we discuss the role of television in presidential debates, his decisions that supported the rise of PBS, and of course, his famous “vast wasteland” speech.

Andy and John discuss the intersection between cryptocurrency and telecom, the new FCC chair, and government 5G projects conducted by Verizon and Lockheed Martin. 

Five decades is a long time for any television series to air, but when a show hits 50, it's possible some people might start asking questions about where it all started. That's where this podcast comes in. Fifty years ago, a group of public television producers in Boston had the inspired idea to import British costume drama for American audiences. But they didn't come up with the idea on their own — there's a former FCC Chair, a popular soap opera, and a Polaroid exec with Julia Child's The French Chef on his mind involved, too. For three episodes, Making MASTERPIECE will show how the most unexpected and unlikely of series — Masterpiece Theatre — grew into one of the longest-running primetime television icons of all time. What are its origins? What actors, writers, and executives shaped its trajectory? How has it overcome numerous challenges? And what does it have in store for its future, 50 years on? In this first episode, that origin story, featuring interviews with the series’ original executive producer, Sir Derek Jacobi, Glenda Jackson, former FCC Chairman Newton Minow and dozens more besides. See our website, pbs.org/makingmasterpiece, for a full transcript with links.

Facebook and Australia, Android vs iOS updates, Twitter's Super Follow. Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology Podcast talks about how Facebook and Australia have made amends in the News Feed dust-up. Karl Bode wrote for VICE about the changes that are imminent in the California courts to bring Net Neutrality back into the limelight. Jason and Mikah discuss some changes hitting Android and how updates differ between iOS and Android. Mikah details Twitter's breaking news of a paid subscription model for followers called Super Follow. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Karl Bode Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit hover.com/twit nureva.com/twit

Facebook and Australia, Android vs iOS updates, Twitter's Super Follow. Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology Podcast talks about how Facebook and Australia have made amends in the News Feed dust-up. Karl Bode wrote for VICE about the changes that are imminent in the California courts to bring Net Neutrality back into the limelight. Jason and Mikah discuss some changes hitting Android and how updates differ between iOS and Android. Mikah details Twitter's breaking news of a paid subscription model for followers called Super Follow. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Karl Bode Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit hover.com/twit nureva.com/twit

Facebook and Australia, Android vs iOS updates, Twitter's Super Follow. Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology Podcast talks about how Facebook and Australia have made amends in the News Feed dust-up. Karl Bode wrote for VICE about the changes that are imminent in the California courts to bring Net Neutrality back into the limelight. Jason and Mikah discuss some changes hitting Android and how updates differ between iOS and Android. Mikah details Twitter's breaking news of a paid subscription model for followers called Super Follow. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Karl Bode Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit hover.com/twit nureva.com/twit

Facebook and Australia, Android vs iOS updates, Twitter's Super Follow. Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology Podcast talks about how Facebook and Australia have made amends in the News Feed dust-up. Karl Bode wrote for VICE about the changes that are imminent in the California courts to bring Net Neutrality back into the limelight. Jason and Mikah discuss some changes hitting Android and how updates differ between iOS and Android. Mikah details Twitter's breaking news of a paid subscription model for followers called Super Follow. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Karl Bode Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit hover.com/twit nureva.com/twit

Facebook and Australia, Android vs iOS updates, Twitter's Super Follow. Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology Podcast talks about how Facebook and Australia have made amends in the News Feed dust-up. Karl Bode wrote for VICE about the changes that are imminent in the California courts to bring Net Neutrality back into the limelight. Jason and Mikah discuss some changes hitting Android and how updates differ between iOS and Android. Mikah details Twitter's breaking news of a paid subscription model for followers called Super Follow. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Karl Bode Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit hover.com/twit nureva.com/twit

Facebook and Australia, Android vs iOS updates, Twitter's Super Follow. Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology Podcast talks about how Facebook and Australia have made amends in the News Feed dust-up. Karl Bode wrote for VICE about the changes that are imminent in the California courts to bring Net Neutrality back into the limelight. Jason and Mikah discuss some changes hitting Android and how updates differ between iOS and Android. Mikah details Twitter's breaking news of a paid subscription model for followers called Super Follow. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Karl Bode Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit hover.com/twit nureva.com/twit

Facebook and Australia, Android vs iOS updates, Twitter's Super Follow. Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology Podcast talks about how Facebook and Australia have made amends in the News Feed dust-up. Karl Bode wrote for VICE about the changes that are imminent in the California courts to bring Net Neutrality back into the limelight. Jason and Mikah discuss some changes hitting Android and how updates differ between iOS and Android. Mikah details Twitter's breaking news of a paid subscription model for followers called Super Follow. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Karl Bode Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit hover.com/twit nureva.com/twit

Facebook and Australia, Android vs iOS updates, Twitter's Super Follow. Alex Kantrowitz from Big Technology Podcast talks about how Facebook and Australia have made amends in the News Feed dust-up. Karl Bode wrote for VICE about the changes that are imminent in the California courts to bring Net Neutrality back into the limelight. Jason and Mikah discuss some changes hitting Android and how updates differ between iOS and Android. Mikah details Twitter's breaking news of a paid subscription model for followers called Super Follow. Hosts: Jason Howell and Mikah Sargent Guests: Alex Kantrowitz and Karl Bode Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/tech-news-weekly. Sponsors: Melissa.com/twit hover.com/twit nureva.com/twit

President Biden has named Jessica Rosenworcel as acting chair of the FCC, following Trump-appointee Ajit Pai’s departure. Recode’s Sara Morrison explains what this might mean for the future of the agency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The FCC has been busy for the last several years. Now longtime chairman Ajit Pai is getting ready to make his exit. For an assessment and what might lie ahead, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to Commissioner Brendan Carr.

This week it's Just The Boys! This was an essentially the Daniecae Show feat. commentary from the other two. Danie kicked off this episode with discussing an interesting card game called Trash Pandas and the Dark Fracture: Prologue, Green discusses some issues with modding Assassin's Creed Valhalla. The Boys then went on to discuss the DOJ preparing antitrust suits against Facebook and Google. We talked about how the Nvidia Shortage was caused by Crypto Miners, then we rounded out the show by discussing Ajit Pai stepping down as FCC Chair.Bingo Card: https://twitter.com/Daniecae/status/1329454385647276042?s=20(https://www.twitch.tv/daniecae) (https://www.twitch.tv/mrgreenelite) (https://www.twitch.tv/revsven) Our intro music: Lou - Quarantine Life (https://soundcloud.com/blacktreesc) (https://www.twitch.tv/loumurk) (https://twitter.com/LouMurk)#DarkFracture #TrashPandas #Nvidia

In this segment of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Chris Garaffa, Editor of Tech for the People, to discuss how newly-announced data caps that Comcast is set to impose on its customers show why the telecom giant is frequently labeled 'the most hated company in America', how longstanding issues of racism and misogyny online came to light in public statements by former employees of Coinbase, and the significance of Ajit Pai's resignation as FCC Chair.

Welcome to Majority.FM's AM QUICKIE! Brought to you by justcoffee.coop TODAY'S HEADLINES: Scientists and federal experts predict a long, brutal winter of coronavirus devastation, even with a vaccine on the horizon. On the bright side, Trump’s chief stooge on the coronavirus task force, Dr. Scott Atlas, has finally resigned. Meanwhile, a new report by NBC News shows that Uber’s predatory, gig-economy policies wreaked havoc on a generation of struggling working-class drivers in Kenya, using the same cut-throat tactics they perfected in the U.S. And lastly, new research shows that evictions massively exacerbated the pandemic, contributing to as many as 10,000 preventable deaths. THESE ARE THE STORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW: The holiday season is going to be a mess. After Thanksgiving, the nations doctors and disease experts are predicting a grim, overwhelming surge in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, which might not let up until we finally have a vaccine. The numbers are staggering: we’re now at about a million new cases a week, and some epidemiologists think we could double the current 250,000 person death toll by March. Hospitals are overwhelmed: in California, Governor Newsom warned that the state’s ICU beds could be full by the middle of December, particularly in hard-hit areas like the central valley. In New York, meanwhile, Governor Andrew Cuomo fears a similar fate as New York City and other areas of the state weather yet another surge. Cuomo said as well that hospital space is the metric we should be paying attention to, even more so than the positive test rate in a given area. It’s an absolute travesty we even have to do this kind of math, but that’s where we’re at. The one good sign is that Scott Atlas, Trump’s go-to liar on the coronavirus task force, has formally resigned from his temporary post in the government. Atlas was the driving force behind the Trump administration’s downplaying of the virus and encouragement of misinformation. Also, there is a vaccine on the horizon. Moderna’s first shots could be given out as early as December 21, but that will only be to a small sliver of the population. Until everyone gets them, we’re in for a rough winter. Stay home if you can, and take care when you can’t. Uber Wreaks Havoc on Nigerian Drivers We’ve known that Uber was a soulless, predatory company for years now, since the drama back in 2017 with ex-CEO Travis Kalanick’s pursuit of market domination by any means, legal or illegal. But some of the tactics that Kalanick’s cutthroats perfected are now having ripple effects across the world. A new investigation by NBC news shows one of those case, in Nairobi, Kenya, where the company lured in massive influx of labor and then did everything they could to undercut their new drivers’ profits. In one case, NBC describes how Uber originally forced drivers to use larger, more expensive four-door cars. Then after many were locked into leases, they slashed the rates and started allowing smaller compacts to use the service, effectively undercutting everyone who was driving for the app before the change. This sent many drivers into a spiral of debt that their dwindling fares couldn’t keep up with, all because they were trying to play by the company’s rules. Uber employs over 12,000 drivers in Kenya, many of them in the capitol of Nairobi. NBC spoke to over 80 of them, and every one said they were struggling to make ends meet. This isn’t new: In 2017, Uber had to pay the U.S. Federal Trade Commission $20 million to resolve the fact that it exaggerated the amount drivers could earn and provided incorrect vehicle financing information to its workers. This is the exact same thing, just in a country with less regulatory protections and an even larger workforce of vulnerable people. There’s little to stop them taking this predatory capitalism show on the road all over the world. Study Shows Evictions Cost Lives We now have solid evidence that the government’s failure to ensure a nationwide eviction moratorium cost lives during the pandemic. A new study by Wake Forest University found that the premature expiration of state eviction bans led to more than 433,000 excess Covid-19 cases and 10,700 preventable deaths in the United States between March and September. The study specifically focused on the spread of the disease and its relationship to evictions in that period because it was before Trump’s loophole-filled CDC order barring evictions went into place. The CDC order provided some measure of relief, but if you remember a couple weeks back we discussed how some corporate landlords bypassed it by just not telling their tenants that they could stop their evictions by citing hardship from the pandemic. And before this system went into place, statewide eviction moratoriums often expired. After controlling for a bunch of other factors like mask mandates and other social restrictions, the researchers found that lifting eviction moratoriums were associated with significant increases in coronavirus infections and deaths. We’ll of course need further research on the matter, but what this says is that history will not look kindly on the people who failed to protect their constituents from this pandemic. AND NOW FOR SOME QUICKER QUICKIES: After pushing to go ahead with federal executions even through the lame-duck period, the Trump administration is now seeking for even more ways to kill people: this time entering a change in the federal record that would let executions be carried out by firing squad. It goes into effect on December 24, which means there’s a non-zero chance Trump could actually use one to execute someone before he leaves office. Ajit Pai, the former Verizon lawyer turned FCC Chair, will leave his seat on January 20, which should give the Biden administration a chance to undo some of the destruction he wrought in that seat. It won’t turn back the massive Sprint/TMobile monopoly, but it should give net neutrality advocates some light at the end of the tunnel. In oral arguments on Monday, the Supreme Court did not seem immediately disposed to let the Trump administration exclude undocumented immigrants from the numbers that allocate House seats, a move the GOP desperately wants as it would drastically shift the balance of power their way. Per the New York Times, various justices were skeptical and confused by the Trump administration’s legal argument. Arizona joined Wisconsin on Monday and finalized its vote count for the 2020 election, checking off basically the last box to make the election results earlier this month final. Still 50 days until Trump leaves office though, so we’ll see how it goes! DEC 1, 2020 - AM QUICKIE HOSTS - Sam Seder & Lucie Steiner WRITER - Jack Crosbie PRODUCER - Dorsey Shaw EXECUTIVE PRODUCER - Brendan Finn

In this episode of By Any Means Necessary, hosts Sean Blackmon and Jacquie Luqman are joined by Dr. Jack Rasmus, economist, radio show host, & author of 'The Scourge of Neoliberalism,' to discuss the numerous economic posts in the Biden administration set to be filled by neoliberal figures, the recent statement by US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell that the outlook for the United States economy is "extraordinarily uncertain," and why the $908B stimulus package just announced by a bipartisan group of Senators represents a "desperate move" by Congress.In the second segment, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Chris Garaffa, Editor of Tech for the People, to discuss how newly-announced data caps that Comcast is set to impose on its customers show why the telecom giant is frequently labeled 'the most hated company in America', how longstanding issues of racism and misogyny online came to light in public statements by former employees of Coinbase, and the significance of Ajit Pai's resignation as FCC Chair.Later in the show, Sean and Jacquie are joined by Kristine Hendrix, President to the University City School Board, Junior Bayard Rustin Fellow with the Fellowship for Reconciliation and contributor to the Truth-Telling Project and "We Stay Woke" podcast, to discuss how the long-simmering frictions between establishment Democrats and the party's more progressive-leaning base are increasingly spilling over into public view, why the removal of Donald Trump from the White House doesn't mean the fight for liberation is over, and how organizing on a local level empowers communities to extract policy demands from the power structure.

On this National Radio Day and the day WWJ celebrates its 100th birthday, the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai talked about radio with morning anchors Roberta Jasina and Tom Jordan.  Listen to what he says about local news and giving AM radio a chance to thrive.  See omnystudio.com/policies/listener for privacy information.

Take a Network Break! Aruba targets the enterprise edge with Aruba ESP and AI, Intel grapples with new attacks against secure enclaves in its chips, and MIT walks away from negotiations with an academic publisher over open access to journals. Three tech companies rethink the sale of facial recognition technology to U.S. police forces, the Wi-Fi Alliance praises the FCC Chair, and more tech news and commentary.

Take a Network Break! Aruba targets the enterprise edge with Aruba ESP and AI, Intel grapples with new attacks against secure enclaves in its chips, and MIT walks away from negotiations with an academic publisher over open access to journals. Three tech companies rethink the sale of facial recognition technology to U.S. police forces, the Wi-Fi Alliance praises the FCC Chair, and more tech news and commentary.

Take a Network Break! Aruba targets the enterprise edge with Aruba ESP and AI, Intel grapples with new attacks against secure enclaves in its chips, and MIT walks away from negotiations with an academic publisher over open access to journals. Three tech companies rethink the sale of facial recognition technology to U.S. police forces, the Wi-Fi Alliance praises the FCC Chair, and more tech news and commentary.

Take a Network Break! Aruba targets the enterprise edge with Aruba ESP and AI, Intel grapples with new attacks against secure enclaves in its chips, and MIT walks away from negotiations with an academic publisher over open access to journals. Three tech companies rethink the sale of facial recognition technology to U.S. police forces, the Wi-Fi Alliance praises the FCC Chair, and more tech news and commentary. The post Network Break 288: Aruba ESP Senses Opportunity At The Edge; Intel Wrestles With New Chip Attacks appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Take a Network Break! Aruba targets the enterprise edge with Aruba ESP and AI, Intel grapples with new attacks against secure enclaves in its chips, and MIT walks away from negotiations with an academic publisher over open access to journals. Three tech companies rethink the sale of facial recognition technology to U.S. police forces, the Wi-Fi Alliance praises the FCC Chair, and more tech news and commentary. The post Network Break 288: Aruba ESP Senses Opportunity At The Edge; Intel Wrestles With New Chip Attacks appeared first on Packet Pushers.

Take a Network Break! Aruba targets the enterprise edge with Aruba ESP and AI, Intel grapples with new attacks against secure enclaves in its chips, and MIT walks away from negotiations with an academic publisher over open access to journals. Three tech companies rethink the sale of facial recognition technology to U.S. police forces, the Wi-Fi Alliance praises the FCC Chair, and more tech news and commentary. The post Network Break 288: Aruba ESP Senses Opportunity At The Edge; Intel Wrestles With New Chip Attacks appeared first on Packet Pushers.

On the May 13th landmark order of the Federal Communications Commission, enabling private LTE networks for utilities air-gapped from the public Internet, FCC Chair Ajit Pai and U.S. Senator Mark Warner talked with the PUF team, including on the cybersecurity benefits that are so important to the resilience of electric utility service. Steve Mitnick and Alex Revel of the PUF team read some excerpts from PUF's May 14 Extra Edition, with some of the most important things that the FCC Chair and Senator told us.

Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report talks to FCC Chairman Ajit Paiabout his role in leading the FCC. So what exactly is net neutrality? Should we fear 5G? Does Yoda really influence his regulatory decisions? Ajit answers these questions and breaks down what the FCC does, and how his trust of markets guides his decision making process. He explains how markets have been proven to be the best course for tech and his bigger concern is that rules are too burdensome and that they stifle innovation and competition. Ajit explains what net neutrality is and why he did away with net neutrality rules that had been in place three years prior to his decision. Ajit discusses why he thinks a lot of the public and media were in hysterics over the impending repeal of net neutrality and what misunderstandings led to this reaction. He also shares some of his favorite net neutrality doomsday predictions. Will it cost $5 per Tweet? Is it the end of the internet? Will armageddon ensue? It’s been over a year since net neutrality was repealed… and nothing much changed.  Chairman Pai also explains why 5Gnetworks are going to increase broadband speeds and help bridge the digital divide as well as the FCC’s role in regulating space.  He also gives his thoughts on the publisher vs. platform debate, if the government is even capable of regulating Big Tech, and much more.

The FCC voted to allocate more than $500 million over 10 years in fixed broadband support and more than $250 million over three years in mobile broadband support.

The Federal Communications Commission today approved $950 million in funding to improve, expand, and harden communications networks in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Chairman Ajit Pai, who has been front and center of the telecom recovery efforts for Puerto Rico and the USVI since day one after Hurricanes Irma and María hit in September 2017, discusses the historic vote in an exclusive interview with News is my Business.

In this Episode: UK's first 5G deployment from EE (0:49) FCC Chair Endorses T-Mobile / Sprint Deal (4:27) Qualcomm Antitrust Suit (6:49) Senate Bill to support providers affected by Huawei Ban (11:12) Q&A   Why are telephone calls still the preferred method of communication when we now have free video calls? (15:46)   How should a business use social media as a tool for customer service? (19:38)   If I want to disconnect my landline (finally!) but want to keep the number (for ID purposes with various companies including credit card companies) can I transfer my Verizon landline to a Google number? (22:21)   Show Notes:   EE 5G Press Release -  https://newsroom.ee.co.uk/ee-launching-uks-first-5g-service-in-six-cities-bringing-a-new-era-in-faster-more-reliable-connectivity/   FCC endorsement -  https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-statement-t-mobilesprint-transaction

T-Mobile's proposed $26.5 billion merger with Sprint just cleared its first legal hurdle. Federal Communications Commission Chair Ajit Pai says he will recommend the agency approve the deal. The agency will most likely follow his lead. But the deal still needs approval from the Department of Justice, where antitrust enforcement staffers have expressed concerns, Bloomberg reports.

Friday morning on the Angie Austin and Mike Opelka Show, the FCC Chair called to discuss some important issues.

It was hard not to fear the worst when President Barack Obama appointed Tom Wheeler as chair of the Federal Communications Commission in 2013. Wheeler was the CEO of the wireless industry group CTIA from 1992 to 2004, and the CEO of the National Cable Television Association from 1979 to 1984. As the agency drafted its net neutrality rules, comedian John Oliver famously compared putting Wheeler in charge of the FCC to hiring a dingo to babysit your kids. But Wheeler wasn't a dingo.

  Bio Betsy Cooper (@BetsOnTech) is the founding Director of the Aspen Tech Policy Hub. A cybersecurity expert, Ms. Cooper joined Aspen’s Cybersecurity & Technology Program after serving as the Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, she served at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as an attorney advisor to the Deputy General Counsel and as a policy counselor in the Office of Policy. She has worked for over a decade in homeland security consulting, managing projects for Atlantic Philanthropies in Dublin, the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit in London, and the World Bank, and other organizations. In addition, Ms. Cooper has clerked for Berkeley Law professor and Judge William Fletcher on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation (where she currently is a nonresident affiliate), as well as a Yale Public Interest Fellowship. Ms. Cooper has written more than twenty manuscripts and articles on U.S. and European homeland security policy. She is also a Senior Advisor at Albright Stonebridge Group. Ms. Cooper earned a J.D. from Yale University, a D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University, an M.Sc. in Forced Migration from Oxford University, and a B.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She speaks advanced French. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Resources Aspen Tech Policy Hub Aspen Tech Policy Hub Fellowship Application News Roundup Coates tells Senate committee that Russia and China are working together to undermine the 2020 election In his annual threat assessment report, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coates told the Senate intelligence committee that Russia and China will try and interfere with the 2020 presidential election. The report lists social media threats as second on a list of several threats to U.S. national security. DC Circuit Appeals panel hears net neutrality oral arguments A three-judge panel of the DC Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments from the government and consumer advocates last week as consumer advocates’ lawsuit against the FCC for repealing the 2015 open internet rules presses on. Two of the judges—Particia Millett and Robert Wilkins—both Obama appointees—seemed to side with the consumer advocates as the FCC struggled to persuade the court that the agency had the authority to reclassify broadband as an information service. Report: FamilyTreeDNA works with the FBI BuzzFeed reported that popular home DNA testing company Family Tree DNA is working with the FBI, allowing agents to access its database to investigate violent crimes.  Privacy advocates object to the partnership. But others say that as more people sign up for genetic tests, the data has become increasingly valuable to solve cold cases, with the arrest last year of the suspected Golden State Killer being a prime example. Feds charge second Chinese Apple car worker with data theft The feds have charged a second Apple engineer with stealing company trade secrets with a plan to bring them back to China. Another Apple employee spotted Jizhong Chen taking snapshots of his workspace with a wide angle lens even though he was working under an NDA.  Apparently Chen had some 2,000 files on his hard drive, including manuals and schematics.  He says he was going to China to see family. But the feds allege he was actually planning to bring the files back to a Chinese car manufacturer he’d applied for a job with. It’s the second Apple employee charged with stealing trade secrets from the company’s self-driving car unit. Apple reports Group FaceTime bug Apple reported a bug with Group FaceTime that allowed callers to hear the people they were calling before they answered. The company took down Group Facetime when it learned of the bug, apologized, and announced that it would release a fix for the problem this week. Facebook hires three leading privacy critics from Access Now, EFF, and OTI The Information reports that Facebook has hired three leading privacy critics from Access Now, EFF, and OTI as the company tries to deal with the onslaught of backlash around its privacy woes. Robyn Greene, Nathan White, and Nate Cardozo have been critical of Facebook and all joined the company within the last month. Mignon Clyburn to advise TMobile/Sprint TMobile and Sprint have tapped former FCC Chair and Commissioner Mignon Clyburn to help advise them on their $26 billion merger. Clyburn said in a statement that she will be advising the two companies as a continuation of her work to ensure vulnerable populations have affordable access to 5G.

Ronan Farrow's new piece on CBS and harassment; Story alleges a darker side of '60 Minutes'; What Trump and NYT's publisher talked about; New signs of solidarity among W.H. reporters; Trump v. Cohen is TV's newest drama; Trump angry with FCC chair over Sinclair deal; S.E. Cupp on the bloodbath at NY Daily News

Chairman Ajit Pai of the Federal Communications Commission discusses the funds dedicated to helping restore the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico communications networks, action taken against robocallers, initiatives against cramming and slamming, and efforts to deploy broadband to rural areas.

This is Episode 66 of the Tech Narratives Podcast, for September 28, 2017. If you're enjoying the podcast, you might also enjoy a subscription to the Tech Narratives site just as much (or possibly even more). There's a 30-day free trial, and after that it's $10/month. You can read more about what a subscription gets you at www.technarratives.com/become-a-subscriber/ Below is a listing of the news stories covered, the Tech Narratives item, and the source for each: 1. Google is Reportedly Working on a Premium Google Home Max TN Link: https://wp.me/p8ecZ5-2LZ Source Link at 9to5Google: https://9to5google.com/2017/09/27/exclusive-google-is-developing-a-higher-end-google-home-max-w-stereo-speakers/ 2. Toshiba Agrees to Sell Memory Group to Bain for $18bn, with Funding from Apple TN Link: https://wp.me/p8ecZ5-2Ma Source Link at Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/toshiba-seals-18-billion-deal-to-sell-chip-arm-to-bain-group 3. GoPro Announces Latest Hero Camera, Details Fusion VR Camera Announced Earlier TN Link: https://wp.me/p8ecZ5-2Mh Source Links at TechCrunch and The Verge: https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/28/gopros-hero6-black-launches-today-for-499/ and https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/9/28/16374210/gopro-fusion-360-camera-price-release-date 4. Roku IPO Sees Stock Rise Over 50% on First Day TN Link: https://wp.me/p8ecZ5-2Mz Source Link at Variety: http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/roku-ipo-stock-debut-1202575285/ 5. FCC Chair and Others Call on Apple to “Activate FM Chip” in iPhones TN Link: https://wp.me/p8ecZ5-2MJ Source Link at Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2017-09-28/apple-urged-to-activate-iphone-s-fm-radio-chip-after-hurricanes 6. Twitter Discloses Information About 2016 Election-Related Ad Buying, Bots TN Link: https://wp.me/p8ecZ5-2MP Source Link at Twitter: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/company/2017/Update-Russian-Interference-in-2016--Election-Bots-and-Misinformation.html 7. Facebook’s News Sub Offering Won’t Have NYT, FT, WSJ, Will Have Tronc, WaPo TN Link: https://wp.me/p8ecZ5-2N0 Source Link at The Street: https://www.thestreet.com/story/14322723/1/facebook-subscriptions-tokenism-or-a-real-test-.html 8. Google Announces Assistant is Coming to Android TV Starting with Nvidia Shield TN Link: https://wp.me/p8ecZ5-2Nb Source Link at Google: https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/your-google-assistant-now-on-android-tv/ Five additional news items mentioned on the podcast: 5000 Working on Alexa: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/27/amazon-has-5000-people-on-echo-and-alexa-more-than-fitbit-and-gopro.html Uber London Backgrounder: https://www.ft.com/content/41a0ff40-a383-11e7-9e4f-7f5e6a7c98a2 2-Second Video Ads: http://adage.com/article/digital/changing-minds-videos-work-facebook/310560/ Apple Music Interviews: http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7980919/jimmy-iovine-zane-lowe-larry-jackson-interview-billboard-cover-story-2017 iPhone Futurology: https://medium.com/@flyosity/iphone-xx-futurology-a44d06b3c8c4 I welcome your feedback. You can find me on Twitter at @jandawson or @technarratives, or email me at jan@jackdawresearch.com.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is serving up a big cup of you-know-what for net neutrality, declaring his intent to decimate the 2 year-old Open Internet Order and the Title II protections it bestows on the internet. Prof. Christopher Terry from the University of Minnesota joins to help us understand what Chairman Pai intends to do, […] The post Podcast #90 – FCC Chair Declares War on the Open Internet appeared first on Radio Survivor.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is serving up a big cup of you-know-what for net neutrality, declaring his intent to decimate the 2 year-old Open Internet Order and the Title II protections it bestows on the internet. Prof. Christopher Terry from the University of Minnesota joins to help us understand what Chairman Pai intends to do, […] The post Podcast #90 – FCC Chair Declares War on the Open Internet appeared first on Radio Survivor.

Thanks for listening to the POC podcast. Show notes for Episode 8 below! Weekly Recap Monday April 24 State Department blog post touts Mar-a-lago. CNN Russia-linked hackers that went after Clinton have now targeted Macron Axios Tuesday April 25 Sally Yates to testify! White House Denies House oversight committee's request for documents tied to Michael Flynn. Chaffetz on Flynn German crowd boos Ivanka Trump for calling her father a â??championâ?? for families Judge Blocks Trump Effort to Withhold Money From Sanctuary Cities NYT Wednesday April 26 FCC Chair unveils plan to roll back net neutrality CNN Trump Tax Plans Here is a look at some of the major changes that could affect you: Most tax deductions are going away. Fewer tax brackets. Bigger tax breaks for parents. Reduced taxes on the wealthy. Lower tax rate for business owners. Trump's immigrant crime hotline trolled with calls about aliens and UFOs BBC Chaffetz to miss 3-4 weeks for surgery Instagram James Comey to testify in the Senate Trump Tells Foreign Leaders That NAFTA Can Stay for Now NYT Thursday April 27 New documents show Flynn was warned to not take foreign funds as he entered retirement. CNN Trump's Reuters Interview Friday April 28 Trump signs order looking to reverse Obama's ban on off-shore drilling North Korea's missile test fails, US military says Government Shutdown? Saturday April 29 Peopleâ??s Climate March Trump rallies his base on his 100th day White House Correspondent Dinner Sunday April 30 Spending bill through September $1.5 billion for border security -- technology and repairing existing infrastructure with language saying no new border wall construction No money for deportation force or federal cuts to sanctuary cities Billions in new defense spending, including the global war on terrorism No funding cut for Planned Parenthood National Institute of Health funding increase of $2 billion Increase clean energy and science funding Energy Efficiency And Renewable Energy is up $17 million over Fiscal Year 2016 Department of Energy Office of Science is up $42 million over Fiscal Year 2016 Provide permanent fix for miners health insurance $295 million for Puerto Rico Medicaid Disaster package including funding for California, West Virginia, Louisiana and North Carolina, increased funding for transit infrastructure grants and opioid epidemic Restored year round Pell Grants Refunds for West Palm and NYC for Trump security. End Game Trumps 100 Days You can also email us: info[at]ProgressiveChat.com You can leave us feedback by calling (347) 709-3247

Early this week, the White House confirmed that President Trump picked FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai to chair the agency. This means that Republicans have a 2-1 majority until the vacancies can be filled by candidates confirmed by the Senate. While some of his more hysterical critics pull their hair out over the impending “death of the Open Internet,” others are looking forward to a new direction at the FCC. Hopefully this is characterized by a renewed spirit of bipartisanship on a wide range of telecom issues, including net neutrality and broadband deployment. Pai has proposed “Gigabit Opportunity Zones” to jumpstart broadband in both urban and rural low-income communities. What else can we expect from the new FCC? Evan and Berin discuss.

In this episode, we discussed: how traditional and social media platforms perpetuate stereotypes. the role of the advertising industry in promoting accurate portrayals of underrepresented groups in the media Resources: Reality TV: Entertaining But No Laughing Matter (AAF, 2015) American Advertising Federation (AAF) American Advertising Federation's Mosaic Council Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison NEWS ROUNDUP The tech sector and tech-related progressive thinks tanks are reeling following the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. At Benton.org, Robbie McBeath discusses the totally changed political landscape in which Republicans will now control all three branches of government. South Dakota Senator John Thune is expected to continue to Chair the Senate Commerce Committee. Three Congressmen--Greg Walden, John Shimkus and Joe Barton are expected to pursue the House Energy and Commerce Chairmanship, with Walden being the favorite since House speaker Paul Ryan credits Walden, who served as Republican Congressional Committee Chair, with helping Republicans maintain control of Congress. Anticipated legislative initiatives include rewriting the Communications Act and an effort to override the FCC's net neutrality rules, as well as expanding mobile and internet access to rural areas and capping Lifeline expenditures to $1.5 billion. President-elect Trump will of course nominate a new FCC Chair to replace Tom Wheeler who is expected to leave before the inauguration on January 20th. Tech sector stocks declined following last week's election, as investors anticipated a new administration that would be less friendly to tech than Obama. The tech sector opposed Trump vigorously during the campaign, contributing barely anything to his campaign, outside of PayPal founder Peter Thiel who contributed $1.25 million late in the election season. Companies like Apple are concerned about what a new Trump administration will mean for encryption and the company's resistance to law enforcement requests for access to iPhone data during criminal investigations. Almost all of the Valley is concerned about what the new administration will mean not just for things like net neutrality and science-based policymaking, but also the sector's influence in Washington, which had grown exponentially during the Obama era. ---- Facebook announced that it will no longer allow advertisers to exclude audiences based on their race and ethnicity for ads related to housing, credit or employment. The company will also require advertisers to pledge not to place any discriminatory ads on Facebook. The company had come under fire from civil rights activists, the Congressional Black and Hispanic Caucuses, as well as several attorneys general after Pro Publica released a report showing how Facebook allowed advertisers selling real estate to exclude racial and ethnic groups. Two plaintiffs also sued Facebook under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ---- Following the 2016 presidential election, Facebook executives are now evaluating the role the platform plays in the dissemination of fake news, and the extent to which misinformation on the social network led to the election of Donald Trump. One piece of fake news shared over 1 million times falsely claimed that Pope Francis endorsed Donald Trump. Facebook has been under fire for bias in its newsfeed over the past year, and earlier this year was accused of suressing conservative news from its trending news results. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg denies fake news on Facebook impacted the election in any way.  Mike Isaac has the story in the New York Times. ---- John Wagner reported in the Washington Post on Hillary Clinton's data driven campaign, one that was far more sophisticated than both Romney and Obama's, but which ultimate failed. It appears that both the Democratic establishment and the complex algorithm they used known as Ada, completely missed opportunities to campaign in Rust Belt states like Michigan and Minnesota, which Clinton lost. Campaign managers will look at this as a case study for many years to come into both how biases are reflected in algorithms and the extent to which campaigns should continue to rely on alogrithms to determine which states they should campaign in. --- A group of hackers known as Fancy Bear and Cozy Bear, widely believed to be affiliated with Russia, launched an attack on the servers of several NGOs, think tanks, universities, government agencies and other institutions on Wednesday, shortly after Trump claimed victory in Tuesday's election. The hackers sent phishing emails to the targets containing malicious links and zip files. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai at Motherboard has the story. ---- Finally, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit blocked the FCC's prison phone rate cap last week, granting a petition for stay by a company called Securus technologies. The rate caps were set at 13 cents to 31 cents per minute. The Court stated that these caps were significantly below what prison phone providers need to fulfill their contractual obligations to prisons. John Brodkin has the story in Ars Technica.  

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler asks telcos to develop a plan to allow consumer controlled RoboCall management.

FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler asks telcos to develop a plan to allow consumer controlled RoboCall management.

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Coming to you live deep in the Heart of America.Welcome back to The Live Show!First headline of the day: Investigator of the Secret Service prostitution scandal resigns.If you will remember back, there were a group of secret service agents who were on an advanced detail and they ended up going to Colombia. They were lady implicated in a prostitution scandal. And 8 of them were subsequently fired. For those of you who don’t understand how an advanced detail works, let me explain.When you’re doing close protection work, of which I have quite a bit of experience, you have on a large scale operation like you would have protecting a President or high ranking Senators or something like that, you typically have two teams. You have the actual close protection element that guards the person that you’re there to protect. And you have an advanced team that goes to the locations that the individual is going to be at prior to them arriving, does a bunch of coordination, and makes sure that things are secure.So you have a group of secret service agents who travel to Colombia as part of the advanced element. And while they were there, they got their advance work done, it was late in the night, they got an itch they got to scratch, it’s right there. It’s right in front of you, just go over there. So they ended up paying for sex and got kicked out of the Secret Service.Now, they had assigned an investigator, David Nieland, to try and figure out if a crime had been committed here. He was part of the Department of Homeland Security who was tasked with the internal review of the Secrete Service in the 2012 prostitution scandal. He quietly resigned in August after he was implicated on his own incident involving prostitution. Investigator in Secret Service prostitution scandal resigns after being implicated in own incidenthttp://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/10/29/investigator-in-secret-service-prostitution-scandal-resigns-after-implicated-in/The investigator leading the probe into the Secret Service's 2012 prostitution scandal quietly resigned in August after he was implicated in a prostitution entanglement of his own.A senior administration official confirmed to Fox News that David Nieland was observed entering and leaving a building that was under surveillance as part of a prostitution investigation by sheriff's deputies in Broward County, Fla.Authorities later interviewed a prostitute who identified Nieland in a photo and said he had paid her for sex.Nieland resigned after he refused to answer questions from a Department of Homeland Security official about the incident.What do you expect? When you give people massive amounts of authority, if you needed any validation that corruption exists everywhere and that absolute power corrupts absolutely, you need to look no further than the single man who was in charge of monitoring and reviewing the Secret Service investigation. Here’s another one:Man beheads woman & jumps in front of trainhttp://nypost.com/2014/10/29/man-possibly-beheaded-woman-jumped-in-front-of-train-cops/A man beheaded a woman at her Long Island apartment Tuesday night and dragged her out into the street where he kicked her severed head about 20 feet before jumping in front of a train, cops and witnesses said.Some of the neighbors thought the headless body in the street was a Halloween prank, only to lift the lifeless body and discover it was real, witnesses said.The man was struck and killed by a LIRR train about 25 minutes later.It’s wild and crazy times in New York. Never a dull moment.You know, I laugh a little bit about it because, if you don’t, it’s just so sad. This is a bad situation. Bad things happen all the time. With 24 hour news cycles, you tend to see more of them than you saw years ago. But it was a rarity in this country when somebody got beheaded. Not so much anymore. We have a ton of stuff in the stack today.I got so much stuff today that I want to go over with you and so many different angles that I want to present to you.We have got some folks who are inside of the Obama Administration who are just saying some absolutely atrocious things about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.We’ve got the Michael Brown case and the anonymous leaking stuff so we’ll be talking about that.As I’ve mentioned on this show before, we’re starting to see the repercussions of what happens in an economy when you make things cheap. You get a lot of people who want it and a lot of people who were providing it who don’t want to provide it anymore. Now we’ve got a report here that some doctors are wary of taking insurance exchange patients.The FCC Chair is looking to spur the online video future. It looks as though the FCC is going to help facilitate a way for consumers to cut the cord from the cable companies.And, Google, I noticed this out of the BBC, they are developing a cancer and heart attack detector. In addition, Royals taking command in game 6. It’s like a totally different team. We get back in our own turf and now we’re in very good position because in the last 7 times there has been a game 7 in the World Series, the home advantage team has won. It’s winner takes all tonight so huge day for Kansas City. -----If you would like to discuss anything with John about the show, email him at Jason@TheLiveShow.TVYou can also use the hashtag #TheLiveShowFollow Jason on Twitter: www.Twitter.com/TheLiveShowTVFollow Us on Facebook: www.Facebook.com/TheLiveShowTV-----If you are really enjoying the show and would like to support what we're doing at The Live Show, please consider donating to our cause. You can do that at www.Patreon.com/TheLiveShow-----Are you interested in advertising on The Live Show?Reach out to us at Advertising@TheLiveShow.TVWe’d love to talk with you.-----SponsorsTrade Pro Futures: http://tradeprofutures.com/The industry's top futures and forex trading platforms.Trade Empowered: http://www.tradeempowered.com/Learn how to day-trade, swing-trade, or become a profitable long term trader.Main Street Alpha: http://mainstreetalpha.com/A social site that links up professional successful traders with verifiable track records to capital.----- I was thinking about this prostitution scandal just right now. When you go to foreign countries, prostitution is legal, it’s open, they have entire houses with big signs that say ‘come here’ for your paid tail. In the United States, not so easy to come across it so I’m just curious.It’s easy to make bad decisions when bad decisions are staring at you in the face and nobody is there to say that this might be a bad idea. But this guy in Florida, man, I don’t even know where would you go in Kansas City. I can only imagine but it would be the most unsafe place in town. But it’s something you have to work for here in the U.S. right? It’s not just out in the open. And so for a guy to know that he’s the investigator, that he’s the guy that’s investigating this scandal and to still have gone to the effort, it’s just, I don’t know. He had to work for it basically. It wasn’t like it was out in the open. Anonymous Unveils Explosive ‘Leaks’ on Michael Brown Grand Jury and Ferguson Officer Darren Wilsonhttp://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/28/anonymous-unveils-explosive-leaks-on-michael-brown-grand-jury-and-ferguson-officer-darren-wilson-report/Hacker group Anonymous is claiming that officer Darren Wilson will not be indicted by a grand jury in the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, according to purported government sources.On or about November 10, 2014 the Grand Jury decision will be announced. Darren Wilson will NOT be indicted on ANY charges related to the murder of Mike Brown. All local police Chiefs and jail commanders have been notified to begin preparing for major civil unrest. Governor Nixon has been notified of the impending announcement and has ordered the Missouri National Guard to begin preparations for a possible re-enstatement of the martial law that was declared at the beginning of the Ferguson protests.It’s what we’ve been saying from the very beginning. We’ve been telling the protesters to not hitch your star to this kid. This kid is not the guy you want as the poster chid for your movement against police brutality.I am not suggesting by the way, as I’ve said many times, that they don’t have a legitimate complaint about the police force in America. I’m not suggesting that at all.They may have very valid claims against brutality, discrimination against certain police officers or police stations across the country. What I’ve been saying is, this is not the kid, this is not one of those cases.What you ought to be doing is you ought to be finding those cases that actually do have some sort of racial bias or discriminatory bias, civil rights violation, or freedom or liberty violation. This is not it. Britain ends combat role in Afghanistan, last U.S. Marines hand over basehttp://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/26/us-afghanistan-troopwithdrawal-idUSKBN0IF06I20141026British troops ended their combat operations in Afghanistan on Sunday as they and U.S. Marines handed over two huge adjacent bases to the Afghan military, 13 years after a U.S.-led invasion launched the long and costly war against the Taliban.Their coming departure leaves Afghanistan and its newly installed president, Ashraf Ghani, to deal almost unaided with an emboldened Taliban insurgency after the last foreign combat troops withdraw by year-end.At the U.S. Camp Leatherneck and Britain's Camp Bastion, which lie next to each other in the southwestern province of Helmand, troops lowered the American and British flags for the final time on Sunday and folded them away.The U.S. military is leaving behind about $230 million worth of property and equipment –- including a major airstrip at the base, plus roads and buildings -- for the Afghan military.The battles have raised concerns about whether Afghan forces are truly able to hold off the Taliban without intelligence and air support from the United States and its allies. "I'm cautiously optimistic they will be able to sustain themselves," said Brig. Gen Daniel Yoo, the commander of Regional Command (Southwest).He said the success of the Afghan security forces depended on leadership, continued development of logistics and confidence."They've got to want it more than we do," he said.What’s unfortunate is we didn’t do this sooner. There was no reason for men and women to continue to be there to be fighting and dying for nothing. Once we realized and it became apparent that they had no idea, no plan for an exit strategy of what success looked like, it became a political stunt.What they should have done was, the second they decided ‘look we’ve done what we can do. We need to get out of here’. They should have just overnight been gone. There’s no reason to be out there to be fighting and dying for nothing. What a Senior Obama Admin. Official Reportedly Called Netanyahu Signals Relations Are at a ‘Full-Blown Crisis’http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/10/28/what-a-senior-obama-admin-official-reportedly-called-netanyahu-signals-relations-are-at-a-full-blown-crisis/“The thing about Bibi is, he’s a chickens**t,” this official said.“The good thing about Netanyahu is that he’s scared to launch wars,” the official reportedly added, expanding on his “chickens**t” comment. “The bad thing about him is that he won’t do anything to reach an accommodation with the Palestinians or with the Sunni Arab states. The only thing he’s interested in is protecting himself from political defeat.”Another administration official told Goldberg that he agreed the Israeli prime minister is a “chickens**t,” but went further, calling Netanyahu a “coward” in regards to the way he has dealt with the growing Iranian nuclear threat.We have one sound relationship in the Middle East. One partner for freedom and democracy in the entire region. And Obama is going to single handedly tear that to the ground.It's absolutely unacceptable and it has to stop. And to wrap up, we cover what's happening with Obamacare and how there are case after case of it not working.Some doctors wary of taking insurance exchange patientshttp://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/27/insurers-aca-exchange-plans-lower-reimbursements-doctors/17747839/Now that many people finally have health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges, some are running into a new problem: They can't find a doctor who will take them as patients.Because these exchange plans often have lower reimbursement rates, some doctors are limiting how many new patients they take with these policies, physician groups and other experts say."The exchanges have become very much like Medicaid," says Andrew Kleinman, a plastic surgeon and president of the Medical Society of the State of New York. "Physicians who are in solo practices have to be careful to not take too many patients reimbursed at lower rates or they're not going to be in business very long." The Coming Divide Episode on The Live Show, October 8, 2014http://theliveshow.tv/the-live-show/the-coming-divide-obamacare-strikes-walmart-twitter-sues-the-doj/ The Coming Divide by Jason Stapleton: http://www.theliveshow.tv/resources/thecomingdivide.pdfEXCERPT: “If insurance premiums are going up most Americans who now have insurance are going to become more dependent on their employer to help defer some of the cost. This, in turn, will likely decrease the mobility of ourworkforce since people will be less likely to quit jobs, start new businesses, or apply for better jobs out of fear they might lose their health insurance. If you feel trapped in a job now and are afraid to quit because the company has such good benefits, just wait. In the world of ObamaCare it will be virtually impossible to leave your employer. Here’s why.In addition to a personal mandate, ObamaCare also goes after corporations. Those are the evil institutions that provide jobs and create products that produce wealth. In the eyes of many in Washington, a company exists not to make a profit for its shareholders or to create value for consumers. Rather, that company exists to provide jobs, pensions, and health insurance to its workers. In their, eyes making a profit should always come second to caring for the worker.”EXCERPT: “The new corporate mandate forces most American businesses to offer government­ approved health insurance to their employees or else pay new federal taxes for not doing so. Not all corporations fall under this new law. Right now the bar is set at 50 employees or more. So if you run a company with 50 or more employees or if you work for a company that has more than 50 employees, you’re going to be affected.Under the new mandate, if a company does not offer health insurance and has at least one employee receiving a subsidy from the government then that company must pay a $2,000 fine per employee.Even if the company does offer health insurance, if they have an employee who can get a better deal with a subsidized insurance program, that company will also be taxed at $2,000 per employee (exempting the first30 employees).”EXCERPT: “But it doesn’t stop there. Even if the employer does offer health insurance, if one person who works for them opts for an alternative, subsidized health insurance, that company is still liable to for the penalty because the company did not provide “adequate” coverage. So they’re damned if they do and damned if they don’t.Now step back for a moment and let’s contemplate what the cost of providing coverage might be to those employers. Remember, by the IRS’s own filings they expect the cheapest plan to run $20,000 year. This is several multiples higher than the current cost for health insurance. Companies that now offer insurance will now be faced with a choice. Pay double or triple what they now pay per employee or simply suck it up and pay the penalty. Which one do you think most large companies will choose?If you work for a small company (less than 50 employees) and you happen to have health insurance now, do you think they are likely to continue to provide it when premiums double or triple? The answer is no. What you will see over the next several years is companies dropping their health insurance coverage and pushing people onto the exchanges.” What it all means for you, your children, and your grandchildren?EXCERPT: “The new law will have a very damaging effect on entry­ level workers. When I turned 16, I walked across the street from my house and got a job washing dishes at a Pizza Hut for $5 an hour. Over the course of the next several years I moved from one company to the next. There was a high degree of mobility and I had the opportunity to advance at a young age. In the summer I switched from working 20 hours a week to 40 or 50, depending on who I was working for and how badly I needed money. There was a massive amount of opportunity for a kid who was willing to work hard.I also gained a great deal of work experience. I had the chance to work in a variety of industries and even tried my hand at entrepreneurship by cutting grass with a friend in the summer. Entry ­level jobs were easy to come by and a poor kid like me learned a lot about the value of hard work. Had I decided to stay at the Pizza Hut, I could have easily worked my way up to a manager and even purchased my own franchises down the line. There was upward mobility, a chance to start at the bottom and retire rich.I think that kind of opportunity is over. With the passage of ObamaCare, companies like Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, Home Depot, and a host of other companies that offer a low barrier for entry and a chance to advance, will have to drastically change the way the hire and advance employees.”As is typical with progressives, they have the best of intentions but they're never measured on the outcomes, only on the intentions. They had an intention of healthcare for all as though you could just mandate that everybody receives a certain amount of a commodity and not affect the supply and demand of that commodity at all.And this is what you get. Now people who have subsidized health programs, they don't have coverage. In fact, they can't even find a doctor. What will happen over time is fewer and fewer future students are going to get into the medical field to become doctors.It's coming, it's here now. And the longer it's here, the more it reaches it's tentacles into every part of our lives.Support the show.

This week we visit with Laffy, one of our favorite women bloggers, from Political Carnival and the Nicole SandlerShow. Laffy joins us to talk about politics, blogging and blunts... not that kind of blunt! She is a regular on the Nicole Sandler show. Be sure and follow her @Gottalaff on Twitter. Nell Minow. I met her on Twitter after I posted a link to her Dad's famous "Vast Television Wasteland" speech. You should follow her too @nminow Daughter of Newton Minow former FCC Chair who delivered the famous "Vast Wasteland of T.V. speech.   The SS Minow from Gilligan's Island was named after her father. World class movie critic writing essays and commentary at her Movie Mom blog.  Expert in corporate governance. Robert J Elisberg has surmised "I've long suspected that the seven most terrifying words to a corporate executive are, "I have Nell Minow on Line Two." given that she once recommended her own father be dismissed from a Board of Directors because he missed too many meetings. Hit the AWOP Radio Shop and help support the show!