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BENTON’S COMMUNICATIONS-RELATED HEADLINES for THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 2017

COMMUNICATIONS & DEMOCRACY
   
White House Details Ethics Waivers for Ex-Lobbyists and Corporate Lawyers
   During the campaign and the early months of his presidency, the concern over Trump’s Twitter use was political. Now the worry is increasingly legal.
   www iconClinton and President Trump are once again locked in a Twitter war [links to Vox]
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Editorial: Curbing free expression is the wrong response to the killings in Portland [links to Los Angeles Times]
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Linda Peek-Schacht: Changing the faces at the White House briefing and adding a war room won’t bridge President Trump’s credibility gap [links to Brookings]
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Leakers in the Trump administration may have trouble invoking Obama’s whistleblower protections [links to Quartz]
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‘Something fishy’ is going on with Trump’s twitter account, researchers say [links to Washington Post]
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Op-Ed: Is Assaulting Journalists Now Acceptable In the US? [links to Huffington Post]

NETWORK NEUTRALITY
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Should Two Trump Two Million?
   National Legal and Policy Center Says Title II-Fans Are Gaming FCC Docket
   Democratic Sens Seek FBI Probe of FCC DDoS Attack [links to Benton summary]
   
AT&T: Blocking, Slowing Appear Allowable Under Title II
   ISPs Have Their Own Definition of Net Neutrality
   www iconRichard Bennett: Net neutrality will never be anything more than a vague aspiration with no clear definition [links to Technology Review]
   
Make No Mistake: Chairman Pai Wants to Roll Back the Net Neutrality Rules. Here’s What You Need to Know. – Free Press analysis [links to Benton summary]
   
Rep Blackburn: FCC’s rollback of net neutrality rules is ‘a positive step’ [links to Benton summary]
   
Chairman Pai Aide on NPR: FCC Will Protect Free, Open Internet [links to Benton summary]
   
Commission Impossible: How and why the FCC created net neutrality [links to Benton summary]
   
Experts: Fight to reverse net neutrality comes with cost [links to Benton summary]
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This Plugin Shows You What the Web Is Like Without Net Neutrality [links to Motherboard]
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Netflix CEO: Net neutrality is no longer our ‘primary battle’ [links to Vox]
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Media Matters: The Hill is a dumping ground for anti-net neutrality pieces backed by undisclosed telecom money [links to Media Matters]

SECURITY/PRIVACY
   
President Trump’s use of private cellphone raises security concerns
   www iconBody cameras are key for police accountability. We can’t let them erode privacy rights. [links to Washington Post]

JOURNALISM
   
New York Times Will Offer Employee Buyouts and Eliminate Public Editor Role
   www iconNew York Times editor: Local news is the biggest ‘crisis’ in journalism [links to Poynter]

ELECTIONS
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Hillary Clinton says her ‘Obama 3.0’ data strategy lost to fake news [links to Verge, The]

CONTENT
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How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation [links to New York Times]
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Hillary Clinton urges platforms to ‘hurry up’ and fix moderation [links to Vox]
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CNN Fires Kathy Griffin From New Year’s Eve Broadcast Over Trump Photo [links to New York Times]

OWNERSHIP
   
Time Warner’s CEO says its $85 billion sale to AT&T is all about battling Google and Facebook [links to Benton summary]

WIRELESS/SPECTRUM
   
In 2017, how much low-, mid- and high-band spectrum do Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Dish own, and where? [links to Benton summary]

GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS
   
Why Is Access To Public Records Still So Frustratingly Complicated? [links to Benton summary]

POLICYMAKERS
   
Chairman Pai Announces Strachan To Serve As Legislative Affairs Director – press release [links to Benton summary]

STORIES FROM ABROAD
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China’s New Cybersecurity Law Leaves Foreign Firms Guessing [links to New York Times]
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Twitter Fails EU Standard on Removing Hate Speech Online [links to New York Times]
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Banned From Russian TV, A Putin Critic Gets His Message Out On YouTube [links to National Public Radio]
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EU will add up to 8,000 free Wi-Fi hot spots by 2020 [links to Verge, The]
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German court rejects mother’s request to access deceased daughter’s Facebook [links to Hill, The]
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Venezuela: Public Knowledge Joins Other Groups in Expressing Concern Over State of Online Rights [links to Public Knowledge]

MORE ONLINE
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Cory Doctorow: Technology is making the world more unequal. Only technology can fix this [links to Guardian, The]