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The FCC plans to repeal net neutrality this week — and it could ruin the internet
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- Net neutrality is the principal that internet service providers should, in general, treat all data sent over the network the same, no matter whether it's an email, an emoji sent over a chat service, a phone call, a political rant live-streamed by a college student from her parents' basement, or the latest show on Netflix.
- Such firms likely won't be able to afford the broadband providers' tolls and won't have the clout to broker deals, Aneesh Rajaram, the CEO of Vewd, which runs one of the largest smart TV app stores, warned in a conversation I had with him at Business Insider's IGNITION conference last month.
- If such companies are priced out of the market, more and more of the content available on the internet will come from the telecommunications and internet giants and you'll have access to fewer and fewer independent voices.
Fox complains women reporting rape will make Christmas parties less “festive”
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- No alcohol and no fun and no lampshades and, I don’t know, maybe that’s better," she said. "I can see this year it might be — a little less festive, let’s say that.
- "I think it serves a purpose, which is to build comraderie over someone getting trashed. "I’m pro-holiday Christmas party," he said.
Senior Alabama GOP Senator urges voters to reject Roy Moore
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Alabama Sen. Shelby: 'I couldn't vote for Roy Moore'
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Alabama has the worst poverty in the developed world, U.N. official says
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- I'd have to say that I haven't seen this," Philip Alston, the U.N.'s Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, told Connor Sheets of AL.com earlier this week as they toured a community in Butler County where raw sewage flows from homes through exposed PVC pipes and into open trenches and pits.
- The tour through Alabama's rural communities is part of a two-week investigation by the U.N. on poverty and human rights abuses in the United States. So far, U.N. investigators have visited cities and towns in California and Alabama, and will soon travel to Puerto Rico, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.
- That's second-highest rate of poverty among rich countries, as measured by the percentage of people earning less than half the national median income, according to Quartz.
Alabama Dem: If Moore wins, 'we will always be questioning his character'
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- Multiple women in the last month have accused Moore of sexual misconduct, including allegations that he made sexual advances toward women when they were teenagers. Moore has denied the accusation that he initiated a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl in 1979, when he was 32, but admitted in an interview last month that he may have dated women in their later teens during that time in his life.
As Alabama prepares to vote, Republican Sen. Richard Shelby says state ‘deserves better’ than Moore
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- Shelby, who serves as Alabama's senior senator, said repeatedly Sunday that the state's fellow Republicans can "do better" than Roy Moore, the conservative judge accused of sexual misconduct who faces Democrat Doug Jones in Tuesday's special election for the U.S. Senate.
- Trump offered Moore, who has been accused by multiple women of making romantic or sexual overtures to them while they were teens and he was in his 30s, a full-throated endorsement at a rally just over the border in Florida on Friday.
- I think there have been so many accusations, so many cuts, so many drip, drip, drip — when it got to the 14-year-old's story, that was enough for me," he said of the allegations by Leigh Corfman, who told The Washington Post that Moore touched her sexually when she was 14.
Haley: Trump's accusers should be heard
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- And I think that the idea that this is happening, I think it will start to bring a conscience to the situation, not just in politics, but in, you know, we've seen in Hollywood and in every industry.
I’m Bob Cusack, editor-in-chief of The Hill/TheHill.com, a news organization based in DC. AMA!
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- I’ve been covering politics in Washington, DC since 1995, have been at The Hill since 2003, and have been editor-in-chief since 2014, which means I’ve seen a lot of sausage-making. In my spare time, I play tennis and lately I like to complain about the new express tolls on I-66.
- Obviously, this statistic was the one that made the author's point the best, so he ignored all other data from the last 20 years, and went with a poll that shows nothing but black business owners were confused about what the estate tax was and does when the question was asked 20 years ago.
- All opinion writers should be given the chance to alter their articles after a draft with the pop-up link is created.
Saturday Morning Political Cartoon Thread
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- During the course of the inquiry, which began last March, Curran and his team of investigators questioned President Carter under oath for four hours. Curran said he believed it was the first time in history that a president in office had given a deposition in a criminal case.
- Curran also told reporters that the president had to "bail out" the family business in the fall of 1977 from Carter Farms Inc., a separate corporation managed by Carter's trustee, Charles Kirbo.
- The thing going in his favor is that were a year out and 90% have never even heard of him, so a huge boost could be possible if he gets his name out there.
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