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So I called to get a Samsung S1 to replace my son’s current iphone because it does not maintain a bluetooth connection with a critical app that we need to monitor his blood sugar. Over the course of a conversation that has so far taken 2hrs, 25min, &...
by speechclass
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on Sun Oct 10, 2021 at 03:03 PM PDT
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Ohio has at least 90 things going against it: Gov. Mike DeWine, 25 state senators, and 64 state representatives are Republican officials with a majority control of the state. That isn’t simply a facetious bit of business. These legislators seem...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Jun 17, 2021 at 11:46 AM PDT
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One of the many great things inside of the American Rescue Plan passed into law by Democrats and Joe Biden this past week is billions of dollars in funds for infrastructure investments for state, local, and tribal governments that include...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Mar 16, 2021 at 12:59 PM PDT
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After Trump’s FCC, under corporate shill Ajit Pai, did away with net neutrality consumer protections, many states and municipalities began looking into what could be done to protect their citizens from unregulated monopolies. California lawmakers and...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Feb 24, 2021 at 11:18 AM PST
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Devin Nunes, a man who has sued Twitter to stop freedom of speech, went on Fox News Sunday to tell the world that Republicans—like Devin Nunes—have lost their freedom to communicate with one another. He said this on Maria Bartiromo’s Sunday Fox news...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Mon Jan 11, 2021 at 10:11 AM PST
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Not surprising anyone, Federal Communications Commission chair Ajit Pai announced that he plans on leaving his post on Jan. 20 in the coming year. What Pai will do after leaving his government post is anyone’s guess, but I would put all of my money...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Dec 01, 2020 at 01:52 PM PST
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The only thing more American holiday season than conservatives pretending that liberals want to destroy them, is telecommunication companies telling consumers that right around the holiday season they are going to raise the prices of their...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Nov 25, 2020 at 01:33 PM PST
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One of the things that the FCC and FTC have not done effectively over the last few decades is hold telecommunications companies like AT&T and Verizon accountable for their tax-subsidized infrastructure obligations. In fact, the FCC under Trump’s...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Sun Oct 04, 2020 at 10:43 AM PDT
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A new report released by Common Sense Media and the Boston Consulting Group shows that the digital divide between children that have sufficient internet access and those that do not have access is ...
by Walter Einenkel
54 comments
on Fri Jul 03, 2020 at 02:00 PM PDT
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One of the grand tricks the telecom industry was able to achieve by getting its henchman, Ajit Pai, into the majority chairman position in the FCC was to kill net neutrality protections. The most ...
by Walter Einenkel
79 comments
on Fri Jul 03, 2020 at 07:30 PM PDT
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This is not a diary I wanted to post. (I haven’t seen anything on it here, but if there is, believe me, I will GLADLY delete it, and we can all get on with our day.) You see, I’ve been fervently arguing with someone for the past several days who thinks...
by skralyx
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on Sat Apr 04, 2020 at 05:28 PM PDT
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At the end of 2019, telecommunications giant AT&T had a little under 250,000 employees. The previous year, it had had about 20,420 more employees than that. This means that AT&T downsized, or shed, or cut 20,000 jobs in 2019—about 7.6% of its...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri Mar 13, 2020 at 12:12 PM PDT
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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: "Rail, mail, water, and energy into public ownership"-The UK Labour Manifesto The BBC identified 12 key issues for the Labour party’s manifesto in preparation for the December General Election. Not wishing to take anything away from NY Brit Expat’s cogent analyses, I wanted to reflect on one item, the potential for...
by annieli
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on Sun Nov 24, 2019 at 03:00 PM PST
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Democratic leaders in Congress tells FCC's Ajit Pai to buckle up: It's time for a performance review Ajit Pai’s tenure as chair of Trump’s FCC has been smooth sailing, in that he has had a corrupt Republican majority in the legislative branch of our government. Meanwhile, America has had a very rocky experience, as Pai has used his position to...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Feb 05, 2019 at 12:27 PM PST
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When Republican telecom shill Ajit Pai became the head of the FCC, he began lying about the need to free big telecom business from the chains of net neutrality regulations in order to encourage their investment in infrastructure such as wireless. Pai...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Nov 14, 2018 at 09:25 AM PST
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Since last summer, it has become very clear that while the Republican Party is willing to add trillions of dollars to our national deficit in order to pay off the rich, they will pretend to be “fiscally responsible” when it comes to slashing the meager...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Sep 04, 2018 at 10:32 AM PDT
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While it was it a natural disaster in the form of Hurricane Maria that devastated Puerto Rico, it is the Trump administration that is unnecessarily making the situation into a catastrophe. For nearly eight months after the storm, the island has...
by Kelly Macias
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on Tue May 15, 2018 at 12:47 PM PDT
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Judging by his big Reese's mug, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai seems to like, as do many, chocolate, peanut butter and coffee. But, he seems to hate, as do only a very few, internet freedom. In 2015, the FCC issued an order,...
by hungeski
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on Thu Nov 30, 2017 at 10:40 AM PST
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This is called "conservative math" because it all adds up until you have nothing left. 10 comments
on Thu Feb 09, 2017 at 08:11 AM PST
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Tennessee’s crazy insane lady Rep. Marsha Blackburn just got a new responsibility. She’s going to be the chairperson of the congressional telecommunications subcommittee.
Blackburn has consistently tried to unravel FCC attempts to regulate...
by Walter Einenkel
75 comments
on Fri Jan 06, 2017 at 01:22 PM PST
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