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BadRabbit ransomware, FCC buying sprees and wailing planets + this day in history w/the deaths of Phoenix & Fellini and our song of the day by Morrissey on your Morning Monarchy for October 31, 2017.

We could have been using cell phones as early as 1973, but stupid government policies and cronyism blocked mobile wireless for more than a generation.

-by Jack HannoldWhile the FCC’s plan to drop net neutrality rules has garnered most of the attention that agency has received during the Trump Administration, another recent rule change, one seemingly tailored to help a media company even more radically rightwing than Fox, is getting less scrutiny.The video above recounts how Sinclair Broadcast Group has been abusing its ownership of TV stations to promote conservatism in general, and the Republican Party in particular, for years.

Dead comments, life halos and comedy wildlife + this day in history w/Deep Throat and our song of the day by The Charlatans on your Morning Monarchy for May 31, 2017.

Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.), Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) hold up a banner at Thursday’s rally for net neutrality in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Ron Wyden/Twitter)
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) under President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon voted to begin slashing regulations protecting a free and open internet.

(COMMONDREAMS) As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) prepares to vote Thursday to begin the process of repealing net neutrality regulations, the grassroots resistance is rising up.
A “Rally to Save the Internet,” organized by digital rights group Free Press and including many other advocacy, online, and tech groups, has hundreds of people demonstrating outside FCC headquarters in Washington, D.C., for an open internet.

Drone TV, playing Greyball and the advertising pinch + this day in history w/the Vast Wasteland speech and our song of the day by Charly Bliss on your Morning Monarchy for May 9, 2017.

(COMMONDREAMS) He’s done it again.

(COMMONDREAMS) Privacy advocates on Monday are urging Americans to call their elected officials, warning that there are only 24 hours left to “save online privacy rules” before the U.S. House of Representatives votes on a measure that would allow major telecom companies to collect user data and auction it off to the “highest bidder.”

Illustration by Anders Nienstaedt for MintPress News.