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Big Tech steals from news, but it doesn't steal *content* - it steals *money*. In my @EFF series "Saving News From Big Tech," I show how #AdTech and #AppStore monopolies yield vast transfers from news to tech, starving newsrooms and gutting reporting:
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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Now we've published the final part, describing how social media platforms hold audiences hostage, charging media companies to reach the subscribers who asked to see what they have to say.
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"End to End," is my new column for @LocusMag, proposing a policy for a better internet: the "#EndToEnd" principle (#E2E), a bedrock of the original design for the internet, updated for the modern, monopolized web, as a way of #disenshittifying it:
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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The original E2E marked the turning point from telco-based systems where power was gathered at the center, controlled by carriers, to the packet-switched internet, where power moved to the edges. Under the old model, only the network operator could add new features. 3/
"I call on all of us to work together to bring digital opportunities to all people of the region." - Ajit Pai, @fcc Chairman at #CANTO2018 in Panama
3 follow-up questions from Chair's keynote at last night's formal opening, please.
1. Mr Pai said, "No matter what you do for a living or where you do it, broadband is critical."
Describe what makes broadband "critical" for countries like those of the Caribbean?
1. Mr Pai said, "No matter what you do for a living or where you do it, broadband is critical."
Describe what makes broadband "critical" for countries like those of the Caribbean?
2. In his keynote, Mr Pai said his upbringing in a rural US community gave him a unique appreciation of the importance of connecting communities that are in danger of being left behind. What role should a regulator play in ensuring that communities are "not left behind?"
