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With Perspective From Both Sides of His Desk, F.C.C. Chairman Ponders Net Neutrality
As a lobbyist for the cable and wireless industries, Tom Wheeler played a role in shaping almost every major telecommunications policy and innovation over the last three decades.
Cable and telephone deregulation. Internet service in schools and libraries. C-SPAN.
None of them, though, have generated as much public interest as net neutrality, the policy most likely to define his time as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
In the last few months, Mr. Wheeler’s guidelines for net neutrality, the concept that users should have equal access to any legal online content, have become a lightning rod for criticism. More than 3.7 million comments about the policy have flowed to the commission. Many of them argue that Mr. Wheeler’s plan does not go far enough to protect an open Internet.
With Perspective From Both Sides of His Desk, F.C.C. Chairman Ponders Net Neutrality – NYTimes.com.
Introducing the World’s First National Digital Currency
Ecuador is on track to become the world’s first nation to create its own digital currency. The country’s central bank announced last week (link in Spanish) that it would begin distributing the yet-to-be-named currency in December.
Backed by liquid assets, the currency will initially rely on demand to dictate how much will enter the marketplace, the bank explained.
Introducing the World’s First National Digital Currency – CityLab.
What Happens to #Ferguson Affects Ferguson: Net Neutrality, Algorithmic Filtering and Ferguson
Algorithms have consequences.
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But I’m not quite sure that without the neutral side of the Internet—the livestreams whose “packets†were fast as commercial, corporate and moneyed speech that travels on our networks, Twitter feeds which are not determined by an opaque corporate algorithms but my own choices,—we’d be having this conversation.
-Zeynep Tufekci (University of North Carolina)