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This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: The backlash against the cashless society gets an unexpected ally; The cord-cutting keeps on coming; And smoking rates hit record lows in the US.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: The backlash against the cashless society gets an unexpected ally; The cord-cutting keeps on coming; And smoking rates hit record lows in the US.

This week on #GoodNewsNextWeek: The backlash against the cashless society gets an unexpected ally; The cord-cutting keeps on coming; And smoking rates hit record lows in the US.

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By Karl Bode | TechDirt | May 2, 2018 Facebook certainly deserves ample criticism for its lax privacy standards and its decision to threaten news outlets that exposed them. That said, we’ve noted a few times now that the uneven press fixation on Facebook obscures the fact that numerous industries routinely engage in much worse […]

The military imposes GPS blackout over western US during exercise; algorithms will soon take over sentencing in the court room; and a new study proves community-controlled internet is better.

The military imposes GPS blackout over western US during exercise; algorithms will soon take over sentencing in the court room; and a new study proves community-controlled internet is better.

In Portugal, with no net neutrality, internet providers are starting to split the Internet into "packages" — so much for email service, so much for social media, and so on.

Smartphone dystopia, altered algorithms and radiation-blocking boxers + this day in history w/the Outer Space Treaty and our song of the day by Nick Hakim on your Morning Monarchy for October 10, 2017.

Smith's suicide, Kaspersky's contracts and pot-selling robotic blonde mannequins + this day in history w/Chappaquiddick and our song of the day by Beach House on your Morning Monarchy for July 18, 2017.