Not content with simply controlling the software and social networks we use to stay connected, Silicon Valley is ploughing billions of dollars into dominance of something else: the raw wires and cables which form the basic physical plumbing of the global Internet. At stake is the very future of the web […]
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Trump’s Chinese tech assault will help fracture the internet
However, actions by the US to protect its national security have also got its allies nervous. The US Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data (Cloud) Act extends criminal warrants served on a US-based provider to all emails regardless of where in the world the servers are located. Essentially it means […]
How the President’s social media clampdown could change the internet
It has since helped social media firms escape legal judgment for a wide variety of things. Last year the US court of appeals ruled that Facebook was not responsible for violence coordinated and incited by accounts linked to Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas, citing the law. Supporters of Section 230, […]
Friend request: How India’s battle with Facebook will change the internet
GURUGRAM, India — By the second week of March, India had only recorded around 50 cases of COVID-19, but the country felt on edge, poised for the outbreak to explode. On social media, rumors had begun to fly. One claimed that the outbreak had been concocted to hide the spread of […]
Tokyo coronavirus emergency threatens internet cafe ‘refugees’
TOKYO — Millions of people will be inconvenienced by the Tokyo metropolitan government’s business shutdown campaign as the city battens down against increasing numbers of coronavirus infections, but some of the megalopolis’s most marginalized residents will lose their homes. So-called internet cafe “refugees” sleep in these all-night businesses out of necessity […]
The Virus Changed the Way We Internet
Stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic, with movie theaters closed and no restaurants to dine in, Americans have been spending more of their lives online. But a New York Times analysis of internet usage in the United States from SimilarWeb and Apptopia, two online data providers, reveals that our […]