The backlash against the Federal Communication Commission’s rollback of net neutrality regulations continues — even a certain monarchy-themed hamburger establishment has weighed in with a video. El Kaiser and J.D. discuss the latest developments concerning the Open Internet, and also ponder Twitter’s photo-cropping skills, the Google gestalt and listening to Netflix in other languages. Click on into Episode 260 to hear it all, and don’t forget to celebrate Data Privacy Day afterwards — go offline and read a treeware book or something!
Links to Articles in This Week’s News Segment
- Give Good the Advantage: Chronicle Blog (Medium)
- Why I left Google to join Grab by Steve Yegge (Medium)
- Samsung officially sets Galaxy S9 unveiling for Feb. 25 (CNET)
- Apple HomePod (Apple)
- Speedy Neural Networks for Smart Auto-Cropping of Images (Twitter blog)
- Twitter aiming to make video sharing more Snapchat-like in upcoming app (9to5Mac)
- Cuomo demands ISPs follow net neutrality for government contracts (New York Daily News)
- De Blasio administration pushes Congress to restore net neutrality via legislation (New York Daily News)
- AT&T Is Full of [Bad Word] With Its Full-Page Net Neutrality Ads (Gizmodo)
- Burger King Makes the Case for Net Neutrality (Variety)
- San Jose mayor resigns from FCC advisory panel (TheHill)
- GAO to investigate bot-driven net neutrality comments (Federal Computer World)
- Apple’s Getting Back Into the E-Books Fight Against Amazon (Bloomberg)
- Apple finally enables life-saving iPhone emergency settings (The Next Web)
- Microsoft introduces new privacy tools ahead of Data Privacy Day (Microsoft)
(Hopefully) Helpful Hint
- Another Netflix price hike? Here are the reasons it could try again (USA Today)
- Why does Netflix change prices? (Netflix help guide)
- Watching Netflix en Français (The New York Times)