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Arts and crafts chain, Hobby Lobby, will return 5,500 ancient Iraqi religious artifacts which were smuggled into the US through Israel and the United Arab Emirates as a result of a civil complaint from the US Justice Department. Hobby Lobby announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to return the artifacts and pay a $ […]
Broadband industry lobby groups want to stop individual states from investigating the speed claims made by Internet service providers, and they are citing the Federal Communications Commission’s net neutrality rules in their effort to hinder the state-level actions. The industry attempt to undercut state investigations comes a few months after New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman […]
Enlarge (credit: Steve Johnson) The cable industry’s top lobbying group has consistently claimed that the US’ current net neutrality rules harm network investment and raise costs for consumers. Yet that same group is now bragging about dramatic increases in broadband speeds and claiming that broadband prices are going down. The NCTA—The Internet & Television Association—touted […]
Enlarge (credit: Michael Coté) Executives from some of the globe’s leading technology firms are demanding that Texas not adopt “discriminatory” bathroom legislation. On the table in Texas is a law similar to one enacted—and later partially repealed—in North Carolina. The tech companies have aligned themselves with critics of the bill who believe the legislation is unfair to the […]
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Published time: 25 Feb, 2017 20:17 The Democratic National Committee has enraged social media users following a vote against a ban on corporate political action committee donations, rousing sentiment that the party has not learned from Hillary Clinton’s crushing defeat to Donald Trump. So the #DNC members just voted against banning corporate lobbyists donations—they haven’t […]
Alex Brandon/AP Today, the Entertainment Software Association, which represents the U.S. gaming industry, released a measured and somewhat tepid statement the recent Muslim ban instated by Donald Trump. In it, they ask the White House for “caution.” Since Saturday, travelers and duel-nationals from Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Sudan and Syria have been barred from […]
