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BENTON’S COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 2017
NET NEUTRALITY
Survey: Most Verifiable FCC Comments Favor Title II Repeal
AT&T absurdly claims that most “legitimate” net neutrality comments favor repeal[links to Benton summary]
FCC Chairman Pai Huddles Mostly With Allies Ahead of Net Neutrality Rewrite
If FCC repeals net neutrality, FTC won’t leave users unprotected – FTC Acting Chair op-ed
FCC flooded with comments before critical net neutrality vote [links to Guardian, The]
Ensuring an Open Internet while Fostering Innovation and Investment [links to AT&T]
Log in now: Here’s your last chance to weigh in on net neutrality before the FCC rolls back its rules [links to Washington Post]
IIA Survey Says: Public Uses ‘Net as Information Service [links to Benton summary]
Public Knowledge Files FCC Reply Comments to Preserve Net Neutrality Rules – press release [links to Benton summary]
NCTA: Title II Fans Are Fearmongering [links to Benton summary]
Comcast: Congress Should Lay Down Law on Net Neutrality [links to Broadcasting&Cable]
Free State to FCC: Set ISPs Free to Invest [links to Benton summary]
House Commerce Committee delays network neutrality hearing [links to Hill, The]
INTERNET/BROADBAND/TELECOM
Chairman Pai’s Response to Senator Peters and Senator Stabenow Regarding the GAO Report on the Lifeline Program – press release
Chairman Pai’s Response to Rep Hanabusa Regarding Oversight of the Universal Service Fund High-Cost Program – press release [links to Benton summary]
Sept 6 Hearing Addressing the Risk of Waste, Fraud and Abuse in the Federal Communications Commission’s Lifeline Program [links to US Senate Commerce Committee]
Kansas City Was First to Embrace Google Fiber, Now Its Broadband Future Is ‘TBD’
Redefining ‘Broadband’ Could Slow Rollout to Rural Areas [links to Benton summary]
Remarks of Chairman Pai Senior Counsel Nicholas Degani at University of Mississippi Tech Summit – speech [links to Benton summary]
State of the Internet Report [links to Akamai]
WIRELESS/SPECTRUM
AT&T Fixed 5G Network Trials Expands to Waco, Kalamzoo, and South Bend [links to telecompetitor]
EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
Will Rural Texas Ever Get Its Phone Service Back After Harvey? – Harold Feld blog
Chairman Ajit Pai to Visit Areas Impacted By Hurricane Harvey on Tuesday Sept. 5 [links to Federal Communications Commission]
Communications Status Report for Areas Impacted by Tropical Storm Harvey for Aug. 30 [links to Federal Communications Commission]
FCC: Three TV stations Off Air in Harvey’s Wake [links to Broadcasting&Cable]
After Harvey Took Out Communications, FEMA Set Up its Own [links to nextgov]
The apps that are saving Harvey victims [links to Washington Post]
Crowdsourcing Website Is Helping Volunteers Save Lives in Houston [links to nextgov]
Local TV Steps Up To Help Harvey Victims [links to TVNewsCheck]
Covering the storm itself is just the beginning [links to Radio Television Digital News Association]
Barely anyone used text-to-911 during Hurricane Harvey [links to Marketplace]
Despite Hurricane Harvey Telecom Outages, Industry Steps Up Good Will Efforts[links to telecompetitor]
Comcast Starts Assessment, Restoration Phase in Houston [links to Multichannel News]
Dish Helps Customers, Communities Impacted by Harvey [links to Broadcasting&Cable]
Alaska Joins FirstNet [links to First Responder Network Authority]
SECURITY/PRIVACY
Editorial: Collapse of California bill to protect internet users would be awful [links to San Diego Union Tribune]
What’s Up Those Baseball Sleeves? Lots Of Data, And Privacy Concerns [links to National Public Radio]
A Federal Push for Smart Cities Cybersecurity and Privacy Standards [links to nextgov]
Sec Tillerson moves to close State cyber office [links to Hill, The]
TELEVISION
Sinclair Renews Five Fox Affiliations [links to TVNewsCheck]
Six-Second Commercials Are Coming to NFL Games on Fox [links to New York Times]
PHILANTHROPY
Google Critic Ousted From New America, a Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant
Scholar says Google criticism cost him job: ‘People are waking up to its power’[links to Guardian, The]
Congress Asked to Investigate Google/New America Story [links to Broadcasting&Cable]
New America response to claims that Google influenced an employee’s termination [links to New America]
Zephyr Teachout: Google is coming after critics in academia and journalism. It’s time to stop them. [links to Washington Post]
Jonathan Taplin: Google’s Disturbing Influence Over Think Tanks [links to New York Times]
JOURNALISM
What’s missing in the media conversation on gun violence [links to Media Matters for America]
OWNERSHIP
The Realpolitik of the Sinclair-Tribune Merger – The Diffusion Group analysis [links to Benton summary]
Amazon in Review: What the Amazon-Whole Foods Merger Teaches Us About Antitrust – PK analysis [links to Benton summary]
Amazon Looks to Whole Foods to Boost Online Grocery Shopping [links to Wall Street Journal]
LABOR
White House stops plan for companies to report worker pay by race and gender[links to Los Angeles Times]
CONTENT
These Alternative Browsers Could Change Your Internet Experience [links to nextgov]
COMMUNITY MEDIA
Most Americans – especially Millennials – say libraries can help them find reliable, trustworthy information [links to Pew Research Center]
COMMUNICATIONS & DEMOCRACY
UN Human Rights Chief Condemns Trump’s Attacks on Media
Trump voting panel apologizes after judge calls failure to disclose information ‘incredible’ [links to Benton summary]
Opinion: Free speech and anti-knowledge [links to Washington Post]
Opinion: The ‘he can’t be trusted to fairly grade [group X] students’ argument for firing professors based on their speech [links to Washington Post]
How ‘Doxxing’ Became a Mainstream Tool in the Culture Wars [links to New York Times]
Dan Borenstein: Liberals don’t own the First Amendment [links to San Jose Mercury News]
