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Biden’s FCC Nominee Withdraws Name
Rebecca Klar

President Biden’s nominee to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) withdrew her name Tuesday after two years of partisan gridlock delayed her confirmation, the White House confirmed.

“We appreciate Gigi Sohn’s candidacy for this important role. She would have brought tremendous talent, intellect and experience, which is why the president nominated her in the first place,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during a briefing.

“We also appreciate her dedication to public service, her talent and her years of work as one of the nation’s leading public advocates on behalf of American consumers and competition,” she added.

Jean-Pierre declined to share any updates about future candidates.

The Washington Post first reported that Sohn withdrew her name.

In a statement, Sohn said she asked Biden to withdraw her nomination after discussions with her family and “careful consideration.” She said the “unrelenting, dishonest and cruel attacks” on her character and career from cable and media lobbyists “have taken an enormous toll on me and my family.”

“It is a sad day for our country and our democracy when dominant industries, with assistance from unlimited dark money, get to choose their regulators. And with the help of their friends in the Senate, the powerful cable and media companies have done just that,” Sohn said.

Earlier Tuesday, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) said he would not support Sohn’s confirmation, further complicating chances of Democrats confirming Sohn given their slim majority and the fierce GOP pushback to Sohn.

Sohn is a lawyer with more than three decades of experience in technology privacy law, and previously served as a top aide to former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.

Democrats touted her experience and years of service, but Republicans slammed her over accusations that she is too far to the left to serve in the position on the agency.

The delay to confirm a full FCC has left the agency unable to advance some portions of Democrats’ agenda, such as pushing forward action to reinstate Obama administration-era internet neutrality laws.

Sohn said the “real losers” are the American people, due to the ongoing 2-2 FCC deadlock that leaves the agency unable to push forward certain policies.

“As someone who has advocated for my entire career for affordable, accessible broadband for every American, it is ironic that the 2-2 FCC will remain sidelined at the most consequential opportunity for broadband in our lifetimes,” Sohn said.
https://thehill.com/policy/technolog...ithdraws-name/





Comcast Hypes 10G Network. Is it Twice as Good as 5G? Actually, there’s No Comparison
Ron Hurtibise

Just when you finally traded up to a 5G phone, Comcast’s newest marketing campaign promises to hook you up to its 10G Network.

TV commercials debuted during the Super Bowl, boasting, “The next generation 10G Network. Only from Xfinity. One giant leap for mankind!”

Sounds like Comcast is offering a service that’s twice as good as 5G, right?

That might be what the cable and internet giant wants you to think is happening. But don’t throw that 5G phone out just yet.

There’s literally no comparison between 5G and 10G.

Despite having the letter G in common, the two phrases refer to completely distinct technology, and some tech-oriented websites are criticizing companies that leave the wrong impression in consumers’ minds.

Let’s clarify what the two terms mean: 5G refers to the fifth generation of cellular technology, while 10G refers to the speed by which data can enter homes through cable and fiber connections.

5G is the latest iteration in an evolution of cellular connectivity that started with the very first analog cellphones.

5G enables greater speed and lower latency (the amount of time it takes for data to travel) while allowing more devices on a network to support new business models and a better user experience, according to a July 2022 story on the tech-focused website fiercewireless.com.

Over the past five to six years, 5G has been heralded as the holy grail of wireless internet service.

When fully implemented throughout neighborhoods and around the world, 5G will enable homeowners to disconnect from the cable system and rely solely on 5G service from existing cellular carriers such as Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T, proponents have touted.

Promised 5G applications include physician specialists conducting intricate surgeries by directing robot arms in real time, and super-immersive virtual reality applications that will let sports fans feel like they are sitting at the Super Bowl.

Yet those types of applications are several years away from becoming commonplace, experts say.

5G won’t take over 4G LTE as the most dominant form of connectivity for voice calls, text messages and everything else that uses cellular technology until at least 2028, according to a report from Counterpoint Research.

10G, as used by Comcast and other wired internet service providers, refers to an internet service delivery speed — 10 gigabits per second (Gbps) — not yet available to consumers.

Illustrated by a photo of apples and oranges, Fierce Wireless’ story states that “the two technologies have little to do with each other.” In fact, competitive marketing around the two is “counterproductive” because “it introduces irrelevant issues that do not contribute to consumers’ better understanding of either technology,” Fierce Wireless says.

In an opinion article posted Sunday, the consumer-oriented website The Street (thestreet.com), which covers a wide array of personal finance topics, including technology, insurance, investing, retail and crypto, needled Comcast for promoting a 10G Network when the company does not offer plans with 10 Gigabits-per-second speed.

“Comcast’s Xfinity has taken on the Xfinity 10G name, but it’s not delivering anything close to 10 Gigabits-per-second speed,” the story says.

Logging on to Comcast’s website Xfinity.com shows that in Margate, the fastest available service is “Gigabit Extra,” which is 1.2 Gigabits per second.

That’s fast enough for most users right now. Comcast’s 1 Gbps plan, the site says, supports downloading a full HD movie in a few minutes, updating a smartphone’s operating system in seconds, and joining video conferences with ultra-high definition video.

Only in “select markets” can customers buy plans with speeds of up to 6,000 Mbps (6 Gbps), Comcast’s site says.

On its website, Comcast says its 10G Network “delivers a powerful connection to our customers that will continue to get smarter, faster, more reliable, and secure.” It adds, “It is the network that our customers use today and the network that will power their connectivity experience in the future.”

All of Comcast’s internet plans, including the lowest-speed 50 Mbps Internet Essentials plan offered for free to qualifying poverty-level households, are on the Xfinity 10G Network, the site says.

Mindy Kramer, Comcast’s spokeswoman for its Florida market, shared a post from CableLabs, an innovation hub that develops technology shared by the global cable industry.

It predicts that “10G will provide a myriad of new immersive digital experiences and other emerging technologies that will revolutionize the way we live, work, learn and play.”

When 10G becomes available, CableLabs says, “internet data will travel 10 times faster than the 1 gigabit speeds we’re enabling today.”

When will that happen? “The industry is working closely together on a new generation of 10G-ready gateway platforms, silicon and other technologies that will support the rollout in the next few years,” CableLabs says.
https://www.sun-sentinel.com/busines...s5y-story.html





How Barnes & Noble Turned a Page, Expanding for the First Time in Years
Alina Selyukh

The ghost of Barnes & Noble past meets the spirit of Barnes & Noble future in a single shopping center in a suburb of Baltimore.

The new store in Pikesville, Md., separated by half a parking lot from its shuttered predecessor, is part of an unlikely plot twist: Barnes & Noble is staging its largest expansion in over a decade.

After years on the brink of extinction, the book chain is planning to open some 30 new stores this year. Many are returning the retailer to areas it previously abandoned. In a few, Barnes & Noble is even taking over former Amazon bookshops.
Related Story: Amazon shuttering its physical bookstores and 4-star shops

The retailer hopes this will turn a new leaf. Barnes & Noble sales have been rising, and last year grew more than 4%, according to Shannon DeVito, director of books.

"What has changed is, I think, my hope that we're going to be here for decades and decades and decades now," she says.

The biggest change borrowed from indie bookstores

Barnes & Noble's collapse spanned the 2010s: The archetypal big-box villain ravaging independent bookstores eventually became lunch for Amazon. Its online store lagged behind, while its physical stores got overrun by gadgets, blankets and trinkets in pursuit of any kind of sale.

In 2019, Barnes & Noble was bought out by a hedge fund, often a perilous development. But this buyout brought along a new CEO, James Daunt, who had led a seemingly miraculous turnaround of the U.K.'s largest bookstore chain Waterstones.
Related Story: New Barnes & Noble CEO Started His Career As An Independent Bookseller

Daunt pushed for Barnes & Noble stores to "weed out the rubbish" from their shelves. The retailer has embraced TikTok's BookTok and social-media influencers, and shook up its deals with publishers. (The chain stopped accepting publishers' payments for special displays. This was quick money, but often risked saddling prime spots with unpopular books and triggering a series of costs for the store.)

The biggest change borrowed from the playbook of independent bookshops: Daunt gave local Barnes & Noble stores much more authority to order what their readers, in their area want to see.

It's "a huge shift, frankly, in philosophy for us as a bookseller," DeVito says.

"It's not an algorithm. It's not something that's dynamically pulled from a code," she says. "It's very much a — I read this, I loved it, I know this area really gravitates towards beekeeping books, so I'm going to create the best beekeeping display I can because this is my local store."

The chain took advantage of oddly opportune timing

Not long after Daunt took helm, the pandemic lockdowns left Barnes & Noble shuttered, followed by furloughs and layoffs. But the company also used that time to renovate the stores and recalibrate the business. Retail bankruptcies created cheaper space for new stores, too.

Then, 2021 set the record for book sales in the U.S., meaning the refreshed Barnes & Noble launched exactly when people were buying more books than ever.

"We scaled Everest in 2021, the highest point ever in the book market," said Kristen McLean, executive director of NPD BookScan. "And Barnes & Noble was in a perfect position to capitalize on that because they were that fresh energy ... and consumers were really happy to be back in bookstores."

The chain has continued to close some stores even as it expanded into new ones. In northern Virginia, Barnes & Noble will soon open its largest store in years, at 28,000 square feet, in a former Office Depot space. The new Pikesville bookshop has a smaller city format, inside a former Pier 1 store.

The store makeover faces scrutiny from shoppers

New stores get a near-total makeover: brighter paint, lighter wood, a new layout. Bookshelves get arranged not in rows of alphabetical stacks but in thematic nooks, meant to encourage shoppers to linger, browse and maybe find something they didn't know they wanted.

Friends Kendra Wallace and Audryana Pitts-Wright stopped by the Pikesville store in search of the latest Ebony magazine, which this Barnes & Noble did not carry.

"The look, the feel is obviously different than a traditional Barnes & Noble — that I did notice," Pitts-Wright said. "But at the same time, it doesn't really feel authentic. They're trying to capture the more intimate, independent bookstore feel when it's still just a Barnes & Noble."

Still, Wallace left the store with a shopping bag. Inside were novels she'd followed on social media and had on her list: Seven Days In June by Tia Williams and Tender Is The Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica.

"Should I have bought more books for my collection? Probably not," Wallace said and laughed. "I'm a reader."

Barnes & Noble may not have sold the friends on its new identity, but it did sell them some books.
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/07/11612...-time-in-years





Roald Dahl Ebooks ‘Force Censored Versions on Readers’ Despite Backlash

Puffin announces plans to publish a classic collection as it emerges online libraries are being automatically updated with sensitivity changes
Ben Ellery

Owners of Roald Dahl ebooks are having their libraries automatically updated with the new censored versions containing hundreds of changes to language related to weight, mental health, violence, gender and race.

Readers who bought electronic versions of the writer’s books, such as Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, before the controversial updates have discovered their copies have now been changed.

Puffin Books, the company which publishes Dahl novels, updated the electronic novels, in which Augustus Gloop is no longer described as fat or Mrs Twit as fearfully ugly, on devices such as the Amazon Kindle.

Dahl’s biographer Matthew Dennison last night accused the publisher of “strong-arming readers into accepting a new orthodoxy in which Dahl himself has played no part.”

Yesterday Puffin, the children’s division of Penguin Random House, announced it would publish additional classic editions of the stories with the original texts.

It comes following a wave of criticism, including an apparent intervention by the Queen, who called on writers to resist encroachments on their freedom of expression.

Dennison, who wrote the Dahl biography Teller of the Unexpected, said: “For me there’s an irony to the current automatic updating of Dahl’s ebooks.

“Time and again, in his writing for adults as well as children, Dahl championed the bullied against the bullies.

“Yet here we have a kind of cultural assertiveness that strong-arms readers into accepting without alternative - though, happily, not without demur - a new orthodoxy in which Dahl himself has played no part.

“This particular revisionism sits oddly with Dahl’s irrepressibly anarchic outlook, his distinctive combination of mischief and wonder, and, of course, ignores the fact that words, central to a writer’s armoury, are a matter of choice in order to manipulate meaning and conjure effect.”

Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company began a review of Dahl’s work in 2020. The Daily Telegraph revealed it led to edits including “old hag” becoming “old crow” in The Witches and “You must be mad, woman” became “you must be out of your mind”.

Clarissa Aykroyd, 43, who works in children’s publishing, reported on social media that ebooks she bought before 2020 had been changed.

She told The Times: “It feels Orwellian that we are having the updated versions forced upon us and has made me weary of ebooks.

“I assumed that because the changes to the work were so big that I would be given the option of whether to download it.”

Puffin UK said it had “listened to the debate” as it announced it will publish a classic collection of 17 of his texts.

The publisher added it understood there were “very real questions around how stories can be kept relevant for new generations”.

It said the books will be available alongside the sanitised versions “offering readers the choice to decide how they experience Roald Dahl’s magical, marvellous stories.”

Yesterday Robert Hampson, professor emeritus at Royal Holloway, University of London, who is chair of The Joseph Conrad Society, said erasure of the Polish-British novelist from Matilda made “no sense”.

The censored edition of Matilda has removed a reference to Conrad as an author read by the protagonist and replaced him with Jane Austen.

Hampson said current critiques of Conrad originated from a 1975 lecture about his famous novella Heart of Darkness by Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, who argued that the author was racist.

The book, published in 1902, follows fictional sailor Charles Marlow and his journey as a river steamboat captain for an ivory trading company.

Hampson told The Times: “In 1975, Chinua Achebe gave a lecture in which he argued that Conrad was a racist.

“I know that some black readers find the text offensive and difficult to read - but this is not universally the case.

“Achebe refuses to accept that Marlow is a fictional character and insists that Marlow’s racist representation of Africans is Conrad’s - rather than what we might expect from a British sea-captain in the 1890s.”

Francesca Dow, managing director of Penguin Random House Children’s Books, said: “We’ve listened to the debate over the past week which has reaffirmed the extraordinary power of Roald Dahl’s books and the very real questions around how stories from another era can be kept relevant for each new generation.

“As a children’s publisher, our role is to share the magic of stories with children with the greatest thought and care. Roald Dahl’s fantastic books are often the first stories young children will read independently, and taking care for the imaginations and fast-developing minds of young readers is both a privilege and a responsibility.

“We also recognise the importance of keeping Dahl’s classic texts in print. By making both Puffin and Penguin versions available, we are offering readers the choice to decide how they experience Roald Dahl’s magical, marvellous stories.”
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/r...2023-rm2622vl0





Internet Archive Gets DMCA Exemption To Help Archive Vintage Software

In 2003 the Internet Archive, as part of research into vintage software archiving, discovered possible archiving issues involving the Digital Millenium Copyright Act. This could make it impossible to legally archive early computer software and games, even for accredited institutions wishing to store limited amounts of non-distributable, archival images.

It's vital to make proper archival copies of these artefacts, because the life of magnetic media such as floppy discs has been estimated at 10 to 30 years. Time is running out to properly archive much of this large body of work for safekeeping, to ensure it lives out its term of copyright and is available (in the short-term, under suitable copyright-constrained means) for posterity.

The Copyright Office holds a rulemaking proceeding every 3 years to:

"determine whether there are particular classes of works as to which users are, or are likely to be, adversely affected in their ability to make noninfringing uses due to the prohibition on circumvention of access controls."

As part of this rulemaking process, the Internet Archive submitted an initial comment in early 2003, and followed this up with a reply comment giving further examples of classic software that might be lost if access controls could not be circumvented.

Following deliberation, the Copyright Office ruled in late October 2003 that four exemptions should be added to the anti-circumvention clause of the DMCA, to be valid until the next Copyright Office rulemaking in 2006, including two that are related to the Internet Archive's original comments:

• Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete.
• Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and which require the original media or hardware as a condition of access.

With the aid of these exemptions, the Internet Archive is continuing its work with institutional and technical partners to research and archive this at-risk software, and would like to thank all those who worked hard to help us achieve our goal.
https://archive.org/about/dmca.php




The Decline of Net Neutrality Activism
Neel Chauhan

For many years, telecom and Net Neutrality-related policies have been a hot-button political issue for me, to the extent that I, an ordinary software engineer at Microsoft have been blocked on Twitter by former FCC chairman Ajit Pai because I tweeted support for Net Neutrality publicly.

I also noticed that Net Neutrality is less of a hot-button topic than it was, presumably because of a deadlocked FCC that couldn’t pass anything. Or maybe because, the media would rather hype up “Big Tech” antitrust and the internet policy discussion in congress nowadays is all about Google or TikTok.

Just a few hours ago, Gigi Sohn, someone who’s actually competent enough to stand up to Big Telecom monopolies, had withdrawn her nomination. Why? because the telecom lobby fought tooth and nail, and even resorted to homophobia just to prevent themselves from being regulated.

This is a classical case of not just regulatory capture, but also the media ignoring telecom monopolies (yay, media telecom consolidation) to focus on fighting Big Tech, so they can nickel and dime Big Tech and us.

While the FCC was deadlocked, I also noticed something: I kinda stopped following telecom policy-related topics on my own. The Net Neutrality activism scene of the 2010s kinda died out this decade.

I am a strong Net Neutrality supporter. In fact I fully believe not just in Net Neutrality but in a FCC willing to stand up to Comcast, AT&T, and T-Mobile.

During the Obama era, we got Net Neutrality and broadband privacy laws, and stopped the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger. These are big achievements. But why did this energy die out? I don’t have a definite answer, but I can give a few points.

Deadlocked FCC & Regulatory Capture

Because Biden wanted someone strong enough to fight Big Telecom in the FCC, telecom lobbyists and Fox News came around to attack Gigi Sohn, someone who’s actually competent to run the FCC, just to avoid regulations. Not a good way to run the country, but that’s the sad but obvious truth of the US political system.

A lot of the issue was also initially the 50-50 Senate where Republicans could fight the nomination, and even when we no longer have a deadlocked Senate, conservative Democrat Joe Manchin opposed her anyways. Even Ajit Pai, a very partisan far-right (and unpopular) candidate didn’t get this much opposition.

While the FCC was deadlocked, the FCC couldn’t tackle partisan topics such as Net Neutrality. This is how I forgot about the FCC for about two or so years.

The Media

The media can play a big role in how the public perceives things. The media now is focused on anti-Big Tech, presumably because they want Big Tech to pay them for links.

But they focus less on Big Telecom. A lot of media companies are also telecom companies, or benefit from their monopolies, just look at Comcast-NBCUniversial-Sky, or formerly AT&T-WarnerMedia or Verizon-Yahoo.

And in turn, most people don’t care that the FCC is deadlocked. They get riled up about Big Tech despite using Big Tech every day. After all, your mom isn’t rushing to give up mainstream services for smaller FOSS alternatives.

I’m not saying Big Tech is perfect. Heck, if I didn’t work at Microsoft (or left), I would run everything entirely on Linux and open source software, but Microsoft still pays the bills nevertheless, and leaving while theoritically possible isn’t really an option right now (look at Tech layoffs).

ISPs don’t have “Fast lanes” and “Slow lanes”

A big worry during the Net Neutrality debate was the possibility about having “fast lanes” and “slow lanes”, where a website could pay to be in a fast lane.

US ISPs have a reason not to do this: if they did, people would revolt and that could make Net Neutrality bipartisan. Or states could mandate Net Neutrality in law.

It could also be state Net Neutrality laws were effective. Big Telecom covers both Blue and Red states, and to them it’s easier to centralize policies than to have fast lanes in Texas but not in California.

State laws aren’t perfect: remember New York’s $15 broadband? Courts threw it out since while courts said states can enforce Net Neutrality, they can’t regulate broadband prices. If the FCC had their Title II on broadband, states may have the rights to regulate prices.

And even then, some subtle violations do occur. Look at mobile video throttling, not to mention a list of them post-2018. One example which really hit me during working remotely: having T-Mobile increase the latency of Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 VPN during RDP sessions.

I have run LineageOS on-and-off on my phone, and one feature I used during the pandemic is the VPN hotspot which is how I can bypass hotspot restrictions. Well, if I RDP into my work PC outside of home, the VPN latency goes from 80-200 ms to 400-1000 ms.

Going back to Net Neutrality, even if we don’t have the dystopian fast lane and slow lane world, that doesn’t mean all regulations are bad. The only reason why we don’t have them is because they fear regulation on any level of government when angry Internet users ask their legislators “why is Reddit slow”?

Pandemic and Recession

Net Neutrality can easily be ignored during the pandemic and recession, which does makes sense, people were in a health crisis and now in an economic one. In turn, government resources and public attention in the past three yeare were focused in these places and not in the FCC.

With the recession, while Comcast is expensive, recession makes everything more expensive regardless, and people may not even have a job, assuming they didn’t die from COVID.

Does this make Net Neutrality less important? NO. But while we fought COVID-19, the public largely forgot about Net Neutrality, even when in a work from home world, Net Neutrality is still as important as it was. In fact, it is more important if we are using our home connections more than our office ones.

After all, what happens if your job uses services that have poor peering with Spectrum or Verizon? What happens if VPNs are also throttled or have poor peering to your ISP?

Summary

Just because Net Neutrality is no longer a hot button topic does not make it any less important. Net Neutrality is still as important as it was, because broadband is a utility, even if it’s not legally classified as one.

We need Internet for anything. There’s a reason why everyone has roads, power, water, gas, and landline telephone, but also why not everyone has access to cable TV. We shouldn’t treat broadband like cable TV, but like electricity, but we sadly still treat it as a “luxury” in the government.

Sadly people have a short attention span. We may have a fleeting mention of Net Neutrality in the media now, and then people forget about it. Sadly, Net Neutrality hasn’t remained a hot button topic issue unlike guns, or abortion, or trans rights which get their respective bases fired up.

Even if Gigi Sohn wasn’t confirmed, I still believe the Internet should push for strong FCC regulations anyways. We got Title II Net Neutrality (even if only for 3 years) because the Internet got louder than the cable lobby, and the FCC couldn’t ignore public opinion then.
https://neelc.org/posts/net-neutrality-activism/

















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