Fwd: 🚴🏿 Cybertelecom Links 🐶

Comcast Isn't Allowed to Say It Has 'America's Fastest Internet' Anymore Gizmodo https://gizmodo.com/comcast-isnt-allowed-to-say-it-has-americas-fastest-int-1792143242

Public Knowledge Moves to Preserve FCC's Online Privacy Rules PK Feb. 7, 2017 https://www.publicknowledge.org/press-release/public-knowledge-moves-to-preserve-fccs-online-privacy-rules#When:14:00:00Z ("Recently, Public Knowledge filed an Opposition to Petitions for a Stay of the Federal Communications Commission's Broadband Privacy rules adopted in 2016.")

The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide — and then walks in the other direction, WAPO Feb. 11 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-fcc-talks-the-talk-on-the-digital-divide--and-then-walks-in-the-other-direction/2017/02/11/45a754f4-ef06-11e6-9662-6eedf1627882_story.html?utm_term=.abd2c52ab086

Lawsuit filed against Spectrum (Charter) for $9.99 wifi activation fee, Tampa Bay Times Feb. 9 2017 http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/class-action-lawsuit-filed-again-spectrum-for-999-wifi-activation-fee/2312652 ("Memmer is one of more than a million former Bright House Networks customers Spectrum acquired when Charter bought the company in a deal finalized in May. The suit said Spectrum "illegitimately asserted" that Memmer "had newly enrolled in WiFi service" when she had, in fact, done no such thing.")