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California can finally enforce its landmark net neutrality law, judge rules

The Verge

Net neutrality died a horrible death in 2017, but things have just turned around: California’s landmark net neutrality law — erected in 2018 but immediately blocked by lawsuits from Trump’s Department of Justice and the telecom industry — can finally be enforced. California can now fully protect an open internet.

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Tim Wu, the ‘father of net neutrality,’ is joining the Biden administration

The Verge

Tim Wu — the Columbia law professor who coined the term “net neutrality” — is joining the Biden administration , where he’ll be working on technology and competition policy at the National Economic Council. Wu is a prominent voice online, as one of the most well-known advocates for a free and open internet. Photo: New America / Flickr.

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Streaming HBO Max will now count toward data limits for AT&T customers

The Verge

California’s new net neutrality law includes banning sponsored data services, known as zero-rating, which previously allowed companies like AT&T to cover data usage of certain platforms (like HBO Max) for customers who use other offerings like internet plans. AT&T bought Time Warner in 2018 for $85 billion.

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How much longer can Google own the internet?

Vox

“This lack of competition in digital advertising means that monopoly rents are being imposed upon every website that is ad-supported and every company — small, medium, or large — that relies on internet advertising to grow its business,” Sen. Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks before the House Judiciary Committee in 2018.

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How to Prevent ISP Spying with a VPN Service

Galido

In 2018, the US officially ended net neutrality. An ISP or Internet Service Provider is the local service that handles your network connection. How they regulate the internet? Not only is this unethical but it puts a lot of the internet users at risk. What is an ISP? Moreover, this is just one danger of ISP spying.

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Seattle-based Bloccelerate raises $12M for first fund to invest in blockchain startups

GeekWire

Kate Mitselmakher , a former executive with Gartner Invest, launched Bloccelerate in 2018. He likened it to how email was the first use case for the internet and led to e-commerce, remote data storage, and other applications. It has already made five investments in startups including Blockapps , Symbiont , and MakerDAO.

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The War in Technology: A Digital Iron Curtain Goes Up

SecureWorld News

Many threats that have until now been theoretical—like creation of a "Ru-net" as an alternative to the Internet—are becoming a reality. Cutting off Internet access to a country the size of Texas is not as simple as cutting a few cables or bombing a few cell towers. There are many tech angles to the war in Ukraine.