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White House urges Congress to extend internet subsidy program

The White House is asking Congress to extend an internet subsidy program for 23 million American households before the funding expires. Last October, the White House requested $6 billion to extend the program through December 2024, but Congress has yet to provide funding. April will be the last month for participants to receive full funding, […]

Biden’s internet crackdown is far worse than you think

Our government believes Americans are suffering from an “information disorder,” and Biden claims there is a cure. The cure comes in the form of the worst censorship America has ever experienced, and the definition of “information failure” is absolutely alarming. “A state in which truth and fact coexist in an environment of misinformation, disinformation, conspiracy […]

Books focused on AI, the internet are finalists for first-ever prize

The Women’s Nonfiction Prize has announced six finalists, including works that deal with the impact of the internet and artificial intelligence. The $38,000 award aims to address gender imbalances in nonfiction publishing and is open to women writers from around the world. The winners of the Fiction and Non-Fiction Prizes will be announced at a […]

Revisit the classic internet before Google ruined it

The web is a painful place these days. Clicking on a random link can lead to a bloated page full of pop-ups, prompts, disclaimers, and intrusive ads. If your page contains useful content, you may have to wade through a swamp of junk to extract it. But even more likely, the random web page you […]

Online lies and internet spin paralyze Congress

As an American journalist, I’ve been threatened with violence, fired, and canceled for anything I’ve written or said on the airwaves since the rise of social media. There’s no way I’ll forget the flood of threats and harassing phone calls I received when my personal contact information was published in WikiLeaks’ data dump of stolen […]

Violent online content ‘unavoidable’ for UK children, Ofcom finds | Internet safety

Violent online content is now ‘inevitable’ for UK children, with many first exposed to it while still in primary school, media watchdog finds did. All of the British children interviewed in the Ofcom investigation said that the incidents ranged from videos of local school and street fights shared in group chats to explicit and extreme […]

The internet has turned us all into snitches

The idea that we live in a technology-enabled surveillance culture is nothing new. From paranoia about machines, where we suspect they are constantly listening to us (despite research claiming otherwise), to how we express our identities online ( We have long abandoned the concept of privacy, to the point where we have a dysfunctional relationship […]