The Republican tax bill is an abomination. It gives hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks over the next decade to the country’s richest people. The Trump family alone stands to … Continue reading Can We Cut the Crap on the Debt from the Tax Bill Hurting Our Kids? That’s the wrong argument.

As Twitter tries to figure out how to lock down the parts of its platform that enable harassment, as well as the spread of misleading information and illicit content, there have been … Continue reading Meet the man who deactivated Trump’s Twitter account

Internet providers seized a tool built at public expense, privatized it, and sold it back to us for profit. Repealing net neutrality will only make it worse This article is correct. We … Continue reading It’s time to take the internet off the free market – and make it a basic right

The FCC’s argument for repealing net neutrality is based on an assertion that investment in broadband has decreased. But the data doesn’t back up that claim. The whole basis behind him destroying … Continue reading There’s a big math problem with the FCC chairman’s main argument for repealing net neutrality

Network’s estimated power use also exceeds that of 19 other European countries, consuming more than five times output of continent’s largest windfarm This is worrisome as bitcoin power consumption is nowhere near … Continue reading Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity a year than Ireland

I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the Key Findings: One pro-repeal spam campaign used mail-merge to disguise 1.3 million comments as unique grassroots submissions. There were likely multiple other campaigns aimed at injecting what may total several million pro-repeal … Continue reading More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked

As we noted yesterday, the FCC is trying to use the Thanksgiving holiday to distract the press and public from its blatant handout to one of the least liked and least competitive … Continue reading FCC Releases Net Neutrality Killing Order, Hopes You’re Too Busy Cooking Turkey To Read It

  Nothing good — but we can keep fighting for it. Right now, there are regulations in place that, for the most part, force your ISP (Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, etc) to treat every megabyte of data the same. A megabyte from Facebook gets treated the same way as one from Instagram, a … Continue reading What Happens Without Net Neutrality? – Emma Lindsay

Do we really need corporate taxation? This paper looks into it. Source: Corporate Taxation in a Modern Monetary Economy: Legal History, Theory, Prospects – Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity Continue reading Corporate Taxation in a Modern Monetary Economy: Legal History, Theory, Prospects – Binzagr Institute for Sustainable Prosperity

Want more Netflix? You’ll pay extra for that. Excuse me, does the government work for us the people or the corporations? Source: If you want to see what America would be like … Continue reading If you want to see what America would be like if it ditched net neutrality, just look at Portugal

Twenty states suspend people’s professional or driver’s licenses if they fall behind on loan payments, according to records obtained by The New York Times. Makes perfect sense… not! Source: When Unpaid Student … Continue reading When Unpaid Student Loan Bills Mean You Can No Longer Work

We can use a Green Job Guarantee program to ensure full-employment and environmental stability in the long run. Might be the thing that saves the planet. Actually, probably the only thing that … Continue reading A Green Job Program Will Help Workers, the Economy, and the Planet