Trump's FCC yesterday voted to kill a program that provided free Wi-Fi to rural school kids at no cost to taxpayers, falsely claiming the program was "illegal" and was being used to "censor Conservative ideology." [FCC moves to end discounts for...](
AP News
FCC moves to end discounts for Wi-Fi hotspot lending and school bus connectivity
The Federal Communications Commission voted to end discounts for library and school Wi-Fi hotspot lending programs on Tuesday, drawing criticism fr...
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They're not even going to pretend to be subtle about turning TikTok into a 24/7 MAGA propaganda machine [Trump says TikTok should be tw...](
Ars Technica
Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become β€œ100% MAGA”
Uncertainty reigns as Trump claims China approved TikTok deal.
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The New York Times does a 24 paragraph story on Larry Ellison buying up new and old media properties and doesn't so much as HINT, anywhere, at the obvious goal of leveraging this properties to conduct right wing information warfare, or that this kind of consolidation is bad for the public [Larry Ellison, a Media Mogul L...](
Larry Ellison, a Media Mogul Like No Other
The database billionaire and his son, David, are Trump favorites. The family could soon control an empire that includes CBS, Paramount, Warner, CNN...
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While people are suddenly and uncharacteristically paying attention to media regulation, please take a moment to notice all the massive harm Brendan Carr has done to consumer protection and public safety as well me, back in April: [Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-...](
The Verge
Brendan Carr’s FCC is an anti-consumer, rights-trampling harassment machine
The White House’s personal censor.
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scramble you little shits, scramble [Disney Didn't Expect What Happ...](
ScreenRant
Disney Didn't Expect What Happened After Jimmy Kimmel's Cancellation - & Is Scrambling To Fix It
The panic is palpable.
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this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe [ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air...](
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments After F.C.C. Pressure
Mr. Kimmel faced criticism from the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission for remarks about the politics of the man who is accused of k...
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this is a controversial take but nobody with any sort of ethical backbone (especially journalists or educators) should be using websites owned and operated by white supremacists actively stoking race war RE:
Bluesky Social
Prof Christina Pagel (@chrischirp.bsky.social)
Some more direct incitement from Musk This man burned his sheep's clothing a long time ago and is now fully leaning into his right wing white sup...
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if this shooter winds up being a red-pilled groyper the Kirk newscycle length will be mysteriously cut from two months to two days
Media scholars and academics spent the last 50+ years warning about what happens when you let the media consolidate in the hands of rich assholes. America ignored their warnings every single step of the way: [With Looming CBS Hire Of Bari ...](
Techdirt
With Looming CBS Hire Of Bari Weiss, Two Of The Four Major U.S. Networks Will Now Be Right Wing Propaganda Mills
For fifty years or so, U.S. media academics warned anybody who would listen about the perils of letting your media companies consolidate in the han...
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if an "abundance" person can't acknowledge that grotesque levels of corruption and regulatory capture are THE primary problem in the United States, you should take them about as seriously as machine gun kelly