- The Privatized Internet Has Failed Us: The early promises about the utopia that the internet would bring us have proven wrong. The internet can never deliver on all it’s capable of when it’s run for profit — we need a publicly owned internet https://slatereport.com/tech/the-privatized-internet-has-failed-us/ 1383 comments futurology
- Trump’s beef with TikTok is an existential threat to the internet | Comedians like Sarah Cooper have used the Chinese-owned social video app to make fun of the president, but there’s more at stake than his bruised ego https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/16/trump-tiktok-ban-china-satire-sarah-cooper 18 comments politics
- ‘Filter Bubble’ author Eli Pariser on why we need publicly owned social networks - Private spaces can’t give us everything we need from a life online, the internet activist says https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/11/12/20959479/eli-pariser-civic-signals-filter-bubble-q-a 8 comments technology
- Net neutrality activists demand AT&T-owned CNN ask 2020 candidates where they stand on an open Internet https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2019-07-30-net-neutrality-activists-demand-att-owned-cnn-ask/ 3 comments technology
- A Hawaiian Politician Is Introducing a Bill That Would Encourage Creation of Locally Owned Broadband Networks: "One option is to reject corporate internet service providers altogether, and control the internet ourselves. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/paqd9m/hawaii-net-neutrality-broadband-bill?utm_source=reddit.com 7 comments science
- Everyday at around the same time (8~12PM) my internet stops working, while any Google-owned sites continue to work. https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/a3tp1z/everyday_at_around_the_same_time_812pm_my/ 4 comments techsupport
- NYC Mesh – community-owned network to replace your current internet connection https://nycmesh.net/ 7 comments technology
- City-owned Internet services offer cheaper and more transparent pricing https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/city-owned-internet-services-offer-cheaper-and-more-transparent-pricing/ 102 comments politics
- Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband. Community-owned internet service providers are cheaper and better. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d345pv/harvard-study-shows-why-big-telecom-is-terrified-of-community-run-broadband 6 comments technews
- ‘The front page of the internet’ says Congress is owned by Comcast, Verizon and AT&T http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/technology/article187626188.html 50 comments politics
- ‘The front page of the internet’ says Congress is owned by Comcast, Verizon and AT&T http://www.sacbee.com/news/business/technology/article187626188.html 5 comments technology
- “No one owns Internet... so, it should be open and accessible to everyone,” says the Chairman of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. http://www.thehindu.com/business/industry/internet-an-important-platform-should-be-open-and-free-r-s-sharma/article21039915.ece?homepage=true 4515 comments worldnews
- Russian ‘Troll Factory’ Owner Added to U.S. Sanctions List: Prigozhin owns the holding company behind Internet Research, a St. Petersburg-based firm which allegedly hires Russians to leave pro-government comments and memes on social media and internet forums in 12-hour shifts https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russian-troll-factory-owner-added-to-us-sanctions-list-56600 31 comments europe
- Russian ‘Troll Factory’ Owner Added to U.S. Sanctions List: Prigozhin owns the holding company behind Internet Research, a St. Petersburg-based firm which allegedly hires Russians to leave pro-government comments and memes on social media and internet forums in 12-hour shifts https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russian-troll-factory-owner-added-to-us-sanctions-list-56600 46 comments worldnews
- Publicly-owned Gigabit-per-second Fiber Internet for Chattanooga (Internet as utility) http://motherboard.vice.com/read/chattanooga-gigabit-fiber-network 4 comments technology
- Is a "private" blockchain the same as owning a PC without an internet connection? https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4zkpse/is_a_private_blockchain_the_same_as_owning_a_pc/ 9 comments ethereum
- Some cities want to offer publicly owned internet access. A new ruling makes that harder. http://www.vox.com/2016/8/10/12427462/municipal-broadband-fcc-chattanooga 3 comments technology
- Nest Thermostat Leaked Zip Codes Over the Internet - Even Google-owned Internet of Things devices suffer from common security flaws. http://motherboard.vice.com/read/nest-thermostat-leaked-home-locations-over-the-internet 8 comments privacy
- Big Cable Owns Internet Access. Here’s How to Change That. — Backchannel https://medium.com/backchannel/big-cable-owns-internet-access-here-s-how-to-change-that-131fe62cd98f#.hf8zvlreb 17 comments technews
- While governor of Florida, Jeb Bush delivered a lucrative tax break to subsidize an evangelical group’s efforts to block Internet users from learning about homosexuality or accessing pornography. The taxpayer money was directed to a company owned by the American Family Association (AFA) http://www.ibtimes.com/jeb-bush-supported-evangelical-anti-gay-group-taxpayer-money-1912790#.vuvcixbvhmm.twitter 18 comments politics
- Meet Anonymous International the hackers taking on the Kremlin: The group also released documents about how Concord a company owned by Kremlin-connected restaurant owner Evgeny Prigozhin apparently coordinates an army of pro-Putin internet trolls through an outfit called the Internet Research Agency http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/07/anonymous-international-hackers-kremlin 15 comments europe
- Who Owns the Internet of Things? https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/who-will-own-internet-things-hint-not-users 20 comments technology
- Chattanooga has the only taxpayer-owned public internet. 50 times faster speed than the rest of the country: Tennessee's fiber-optic network, "The Gig", is a taxpayer-owned public utility that boasts internet speeds 50 times faster than the rest of the country. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/technology/fast-internet-service-speeds-business-development-in-chattanooga.html?_r=1 42 comments business
- Netflix to FCC: Allow government-owned Internet services http://thehill.com/policy/technology/216441-netflix-voices-support-for-government-owned-internet-services 535 comments politics
- Chattanooga's super-fast, publicly-owned Internet http://money.cnn.com/2014/05/20/technology/innovation/chattanooga-internet/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 8 comments technology
- Chattanooga's taxpayer-owned public internet is 50 times faster than anywhere else in the country. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/04/technology/fast-internet-service-speeds-business-development-in-chattanooga.html?_r=1 330 comments politics
- Is There A Media Blackout on the Net Neutrality Story? We Might Find Out Today: "If the FCC’s ties to the telecom industry becomes the biggest story on the Internet for 24 hours, wouldn’t it be conspicuous if major cable networks—ones that are owned by Internet service providers—still avoided it?" http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/net-neutrality-blackout 3 comments technology
- The Internet is Owned--Act Accordingly http://threatpost.com/the-internet-is-broken-act-accordingly/104141 3 comments technology
- Hey remember how we built an open source internet to prevent the dystopian future of an information superhighway owned exclusively by big corporations? Well, it's time to do the same thing with cars. http://boingboing.net/2013/11/13/renault-ships-a-brickable-car.html 15 comments opensource
- Mass piracy lawsuits are back in Australia: A law firm is requesting major Australian ISPs hand over the details of users who have allegedly used peer to peer Internet file sharing platforms to pirate content owned by the firm’s clients http://delimiter.com.au/2013/05/23/mass-piracy-lawsuits-are-back-in-australia-law-firm-targets-end-users-details/ 7 comments worldnews
- The Politics of Shitstorms: Is the Pirate Party Its Own Worst Enemy? --- Germany's political establishment doesn't know how to react to the Pirate Party, which now has seats in two state parliaments and owns the debate on Internet issues. http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,823993,00.html 55 comments worldnews
- Boeing-owned Narus has sold Egypt "Deep Packet Inspection" (DPI) equipment that can be used by the regime to track, target and crush political dissent over the Internet and mobile phones. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/timothy-karr/one-us-corporations-role-_b_815281.html 14 comments worldnews
- so is this meta-trolling? Psytek is not a CIA owned wikileaks mirror, but a spectacular example of the internet arousing itself with itself. http://breakingthecalm.blogspot.com/2010/12/musing-on-misinformation-morons.html 35 comments reddit.com
- Swiss host Switch (Owned by Swiss Govt) says there is 'no reason' why WikiLeaks should be forced off internet, despite French and US demands http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/dec/04/wikileaks-site-swiss-host-switch#start-of-comments 22 comments politics
- Why Amazon Caved - Harvard researcher discusses Amazon's decision to boot Wikileaks. Highlights contradiction that, whereas we think of internet as public space, it's owned by private companies, who can do what they like http://www.cjr.org/the_news_frontier/why_amazon_caved_and_what_it_m.php?page=all 15 comments worldnews
- Eighteen states in the U.S. have enacted barriers to either make it difficult or impossible for communities to build publicly-owned (municipal) internet networks. The article has a nice image summarizing which states have enacted barriers or bans and which states have no restrictions. http://www.muninetworks.org/content/community-broadband-preemption-map 57 comments technology
- City offers 10/10Mbps internet, 81 channel TV, and phone for $99/month. Instead of competing, Time Warner lobbies the state to outlaw municipal owned fiber networks. http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14934 526 comments technology
- A Trip Down Memory Lane, The Internet in 1981. This guy even 'Owns Home Computer'! [Vintage News Video Footage] http://tinyurl.com/ctt4jr 3 comments technology
- RedState: "The Left owns the Internet" http://www.redstate.com/diaries/redstate/2008/nov/30/the-left-owns-the-internet/ 13 comments politics
- The man who owns the Internet http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2007/06/01/100050989/index.htm?cnn=yes 4 comments reddit.com