The Internet Is Killing Local News, Says the FCC

Art3x writes "The rise of the Internet has led to a 'shortage of local, professional, accountability reporting' (Here's the AP's version) says a a 475-page report by the FCC, and the consequences could be 'more government waste, more local corruption,' 'less effective schools' and other problems. Even though there are more media choices today than ever, newspapers have been laying off reporters, leaving a gap that is yet to be filled."

The Internet Is Killing Local News, Says the FCC

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Comment on FCC Opens the Door for Metered Broadband by dusanmal

@BrettGlass "Have users pay for the resources they use? Oh, horrors! " Internet access is NOT resource as electricity or water. It is not resource that must be produced as those and than used. If I use x amount of water or electricity producer needs to make/purify it and deliver it to me and than it is gone from the system as I use it, more needed to be made. Internet access as name implies is ACCESS to something. We pay for ability to access any Internet content at any time with only price difference being how fast we can get to it (and that is fair pricing distinction). Say that I and my neighbour pay for the same tier of Internet access to the same ISP. I use Internet occasionally for browsing and e-mail while he watches Netflix 24/7, shares a lot of data on torrent sites and who knows what else. We pay the same. As we should! Because both of us do have access to all of the Internet 24/7 at the same speed of access. That is what we are paying for. If at any moment I want to access Netflix same as him - I CAN! Does some factory need to churn more of that same Netflix content once I or him uses it? -NO. It is "just there" to be accessed. It would be there whether we watched it or not. That is the reason for the same pricing and insanity of "amount of usage" of something that is not spent. Hence "amount of usage" is false concept. We pay for access to whole Internet at any moment at certain speed. That's it.

Comment on FCC Opens the Door for Metered Broadband by dusanmal

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U.S. FCC Investigating Google StreetView Wi-Fi Data Collection

Yesterday Slashdot discussed a story named FCC Investigating Google Street View Wi-Fi Data Collection.

Their summary: "The Federal Communications Commission is looking into whether Google's Street View Wi-Fi data collection violated the Communications Act. At issue is a May admission from Google that equipment attached to its Street View cars collected data that was traveling over unencrypted Wi-Fi networks, known as payload data. At first Google said it did not know if that data included personally identifiable information, but the company admitted last month that it did include entire e-mail addresses, URLs, and passwords. Google has pledged to work with the FCC."

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Slashgeo: U.S. FCC Investigating Google StreetView Wi-Fi Data Collection

Yesterday Slashdot discussed a story named FCC Investigating Google Street View Wi-Fi Data Collection.

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