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It has been suggested that Apple products wear down over time which cause people to always buy new products yearly.
It’s not too late to stop the FCC’s rule change from going into effect. Poll after poll show that Americans overwhelmingly support net neutrality, and Congress has already been inundated with calls for them to take action. We need to keep up the pressure, and we will. You can help: call your members of Congress and urge them to use the Congressional Review Act to save the Open Internet Order.
Once the clamping down on individual expression and creation on the internet reaches a breaking point, the population will seek a better alternative. With the growth of peer-to-peer, open-source technology, it is only a matter of time before the internet expands into a number of different, competing webs of information.
Just hours after the FCC’s vote, the coalition of activist groups behind Team Internet and BattlefortheNet.com announced the launch of “a massive internet-wide campaign” calling on members of Congress to overturn the FCC’s move by passing a Resolution of Disapproval under the Congressional Review Act (CRA), which only requires a simple majority in the House and Senate.
Kazakh singer Daneliya Tuleshova is earning a love of the world thanks to her incredible singing talent. She is a contestant of the fourth season of Ukraine’s ‘The Voice Kids’. She is getting more and more popular every day. Her blind audition performance of ‘Stone Cold’ has over 6.7 million views on YouTube and over 9000 comments within a month.
“I feel tremendous guilt… I think in the back deep, deep recesses of our minds, we kind of knew something bad could happen… It literally is a point now where I think we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works… The short-term, dopamine-driven feedback loops we’ve created are destroying how society works” ~ Chamath Palihapitiya, former vice-president of user growth for Facebook.
Net neutrality defenders have planned a massive online demonstration this week ahead of the FCC’s scheduled vote on chairman Ajit Pai’s deeply unpopular plan to kill the open internet, which critics have denounced as “naked corporatism.” Slated to begin Tuesday—and continue through to the scheduled vote by the Republican-controlled FCC on Thursday—the “Break the Internet” protest is aimed at showing “the world what the web will look like without net neutrality.”
With new Star Wars movie “The Last Jedi” approaching release next week, fan theories abound about the possibility of Luke Skywalker becoming a so-called “Grey Jedi,” a knight who rejects dogmatic views about good and evil and strives to balance the Light and Dark sides of the Force.
Protesters targeted Verizon because the FCC’s Chair Pai is a former lobbyist for the company, which has—along with major internet service providers (ISPs) Comcast and AT&T—invested heavily in pressuring lawmakers to support policies that benefit telecom companies at the expense of consumers.
The budding friendship between a young black man from New York and an 80-year-old Caucasian woman from Florida was exactly what the Internet needed at the end of a long week. The tweet racked up more than 403,000 likes and 96,000 retweets just hours after the two met in person for the first time during the man’s first ever trip to the Sunshine State.
The incredible bitcoin rally over the past seven years has professional investors and novices alike scratching their heads.
I have a notebook full of words I will only read once. It’s dedicated to my River Writing practice. River Writing is a beautifully generative writing group that my good friend, Nan Seymour, hosts. She does so in intimate groups around a warm, wooden table, at her writing studio, in Salt Lake City, Utah. I teach Yoga Nidra, a […]
Just a few dozen years ago, there were only a few TV channels to watch – and Pac Man. Now, the choices are endless. Here’s how to handle them.
The optimist will say that this glass is half full while the pessimist will say that it’s half empty. Others may say that it’s completely full of the atoms that make up water and air. Others may say that atoms are made up of 99.99% empty space so the glass is therefore mostly empty. Asap SCIENCE explains how science relates people’s emotional perspective and outlook on life.
Simply put, the web is becoming Orwellian. There’s plenty of approved “diversity of opinion,” but dissent is being sidelined to the fringes as a risk to the perfection of managed content.
