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Dianne Feinstein Plays The 9/11 Card For Why The NSA Should Keep Spying On Every American | Techdirt.com

Dianne Feinstein Plays The 9/11 Card For Why The NSA Should Keep Spying On Every American | Techdirt.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it

Given that others in the intelligence community have played the 9/11 card repeatedly, it really was only a matter of time until co-dependent "oversight" boss Senator Dianne Feinstein decided to trot out the same clearly bogus claptrap. She's now done so in a Wall Street Journal op-ed (behind the paywall, but if you Google it, you can read it), which makes arguments that are simply not true.


Consider the case of 9/11 hijacker Khalid al-Mihdhar, who was being watched by the CIA while he was in Malaysia. U.S. intelligence agencies failed to connect the dots before the attack to recognize that al-Mihdhar had flown with (future) hijacker Nawaf al-Hazmi to Los Angeles in January 2000.

Intelligence officials knew about an al Qaeda safe house in Yemen with ties to al-Mihdhar as well as the safe house's telephone number, but they had no way of knowing if anyone inside the U.S. was in contact with that phone number in Yemen. Only after 9/11 did we learn that al-Mihdhar, while living in San Diego, had called the safe house.


First off, as has been explained over and over again, the intelligence community already had certain tools in place to discover such phone calls. The problem wasn't that they didn't have the information -- they did. It was that they failed to "connect the dots." In other words, they had too much information which obscured the important information they needed.

Feinstein goes on to make other claims that have already been debunked:


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AI Accountability Policy Report | National Telecommunications and Information Administration | NTIA.gov

AI Accountability Policy Report | National Telecommunications and Information Administration | NTIA.gov | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it

Executive Summary

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are rapidly becoming part of the fabric of everyday American life. From customer service to image generation to manufacturing, AI systems are everywhere.

Alongside their transformative potential for good, AI systems also pose risks of harm. These risks include inaccurate or false outputs; unlawful discriminatory algorithmic decision making; destruction of jobs and the dignity of work; and compromised privacy, safety, and security. Given their influence and ubiquity, these systems must be subject to security and operational mechanisms that mitigate risk and warrant stakeholder trust that they will not cause harm.

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Pennsylvania’s Fiber Optic Telecom History Will Smack America’s Broadband Plans | by Bruce Kushnick, Managing Director | The Irregulators.org

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This is taken directly from the original Verizon PA plan, which was dated December 1994, which is 30 years ago. It was literally called “Opportunity Pennsylvania”, sometimes referred to as Chapter 30.

 

Bell Atlantic PA now Verizon Communications, claimed it would modernize the critical telecom infrastructure by upgrading the state telecommunications public utility by replacing the aging copper wires with fiber optic.wires and this construction process would be 100% completed by 2015 for urban, suburban, and rural areas equally, with a speed of 45 Mbps in both directions. Like all Verizon states, the state changed the laws to be able to charge customers for these upgrades that did not happen — multiple times.

 

Why Tell this Story? Let’s present some excerpts from the original Telecommunication Public Utility Commission documents.

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Telcos Shedding Jobs | Doug Dawson | POTs & PANs

Telcos Shedding Jobs | Doug Dawson | POTs & PANs | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
I heard a chilling story recently. AT&T apparently notified a bunch of employees in Los Angeles that their jobs are being eliminated and that they need to report to other cities like Dallas or lose their job. Many of these employees were relocated to Los Angeles in the last five or six years, and the…
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Competition in MDUs | by Doug Dawson | POTs & Pans

Competition in MDUs | by Doug Dawson | POTs & Pans | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced plans to introduce a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would expand customer choice in apartments, condos, public housing, and other multi-tenant buildings. The NPRM will cover two new areas of regulation. The first is that tenants will be able to opt out of bulk billing arrangements where landlords build broadband…
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Comcast plans to connect 100,000 locations in the Houston area this year | by Brad Randall | Broadband Communities Magazine | BBCMag.com

Comcast plans to connect 100,000 locations in the Houston area this year | by Brad Randall | Broadband Communities Magazine | BBCMag.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
News Network expansion work in the Houston area is now on full throttle thanks to recent investments from Comcast. By: Brad Randall, Broadband Communities Comcast, the largest ISP in the Houston area, has invested more than $265 million into network expansion efforts that will reach more than 100,000 homes and businesses by the year's end. Construction…
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Unlocking Community-Driven Broadband Initiatives with Brian Snider - Episode 593 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast |by Jordan Pittman | CommunityNetworks.org

Unlocking Community-Driven Broadband Initiatives with Brian Snider - Episode 593 of the Community Broadband Bits Podcast |by Jordan Pittman | CommunityNetworks.org | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
In this podcast episode, Christopher speaks with Brian Snider, founder of Lit Communities, discussing his extensive experience in the broadband industry and the importance of community-driven broadband initiatives. They emphasize the need for innovative business models to bridge the digital divide and highlight the significance of education and workforce development in shaping the industry's future.
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NTIA Launches Permitting and Environmental Mapping Tool | InternetforAll.gov

WASHINGTON– Today the Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) launched a new mapping tool, the NTIA Permitting and Environmental Information Application, to help grant recipients and others deploying infrastructure identify permit requirements and avoid potential environmental impacts when connecting a particular location to high-speed Internet service. 
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Barriers to Grant Funding in Minnesota | by Doug Dawson | POTs & PANs

Barriers to Grant Funding in Minnesota | by Doug Dawson | POTs & PANs | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
There is a lot of broadband legislation introduced every year in State legislatures, and most States only pass a few of the dozens of bills proposed each session. Every once in a while, a particularly egregious or curious bill gets introduced. The Blandin Foundation broadband blog recently posted the text of proposed legislation in Minnesota…
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Apple’s MM1 AI Model Shows a Sleeping Giant Is Waking Up | by Will Knight | Wired.com

Apple’s MM1 AI Model Shows a Sleeping Giant Is Waking Up | by Will Knight | Wired.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
A research paper quietly released by Apple describes an AI model called MM1 that can answer questions and analyze images. It’s the biggest sign yet that Apple is developing generative AI capabilities.
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With Affordable Connectivity Funds Running Out, ISPs May Choose Partial Reimbursement | by Jericho Casper | BroadbandBreakfast.com

With Affordable Connectivity Funds Running Out, ISPs May Choose Partial Reimbursement | by Jericho Casper | BroadbandBreakfast.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
If providers opt to provide ACP benefits in May they may need to absorb some unexpected costs themselves.
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Streaming fee needed to save cable access channels | by Caleb Tobin | CommonWealthBeacon.org

Streaming fee needed to save cable access channels | by Caleb Tobin | CommonWealthBeacon.org | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Many customers are canceling their cable subscriptions in favor of online streaming services. As the number of cable subscribers drops, so does the available funding for PEG stations.
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Most Democratic Senators Want Congress to Make ACP Renewal 'Must Pass' Legislation | by Corey Walker | BroadbandBreakfast.com

Most Democratic Senators Want Congress to Make ACP Renewal 'Must Pass' Legislation | by Corey Walker | BroadbandBreakfast.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Most Democratic senators support Affordable Connectivity Program extension, plus 'Rip and Replace' funding.
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The death of ACP could cut $4B out of telecom industry | by Mike Dano | LightReading.com

The death of ACP could cut $4B out of telecom industry | by Mike Dano | LightReading.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
New Street Research analysts used survey and other data to calculate the effect of the end of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP): the loss of $4 billion in market value and $1.1 billion in revenues.
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Washington may be about to take a giant step backward in closing the digital divide | by Blair Levin | Brookings.edu

Washington may be about to take a giant step backward in closing the digital divide | by Blair Levin | Brookings.edu | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
The North Star of communications policy should be to make services faster, better, and cheaper for all. Yet, next year, about 50 million Americans could find that their access to the core communications service of our time—broadband—has become slower, worse, and more expensive, with many even likely to be disconnected. That shift would constitute the […]
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Trojan Horse To Cripple Muni Broadband in New York Slipped Into State Assembly Budget Proposal | by Sean Gonsalves | CommunityNetworks.org

Trojan Horse To Cripple Muni Broadband in New York Slipped Into State Assembly Budget Proposal | by Sean Gonsalves | CommunityNetworks.org | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Language added to a New York State budget bill is threatening to undermine a municipal broadband grant program established by Gov. Kathy Hochul’s office earlier this year. Buried near the bottom of the Assembly budget proposal is a Trojan horse legislative sources say is being pushed by lobbyists representing Charter Spectrum, the regional cable monopoly and 2nd largest cable company in the U.S. that was nearly kicked out of New York by state officials in 2018 for atrocious service.
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Fiber Film Festival | curated by Christopher Mitchell | CommunityNetworks.org

Fiber Film Festival | curated by Christopher Mitchell | CommunityNetworks.org | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
The Birth Of Community Broadband Glasgow, Kentucky, was the first municipal network to deliver broadband to everyone in the community. This town of 14,000 people took a leap of faith in the 1990s and invested in new infrastructure for the future.
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Inside the global battle for AI | by Politico Staff | Politico.com

Today POLITICO published a sweeping, transatlantic look inside the global efforts to regulate AI, from reporters Mark Scott, Gian Volpicelli, Mohar Chatterjee, Vincent Manancourt, Clothilde Goujard and Brendan Bordelon. Below is an excerpt of the story, readable in its entirety here, focusing on the competing, sometimes fraught efforts to set a global standard for AI regulation that played out in Japan last year, just ahead of the Bletchley AI policy conference in the United Kingdom.

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Will California Lead the Way to Internet as a Public Utility? | by Cristal Mojica | 20MM.org

Will California Lead the Way to Internet as a Public Utility? | by Cristal Mojica | 20MM.org | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
As we work to close the digital divide, we must define the Internet as a public utility. The AB 1714 bill proposed defining “public utility”.
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Cable networks will play catch-up with DOCSIS 4.0 modems and gateways | by Jeff Baumgartner | LightReadibng.com

Cable networks will play catch-up with DOCSIS 4.0 modems and gateways | by Jeff Baumgartner | LightReadibng.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Operators will seed their markets with new, speedier DOCSIS 4.0 modems and gateways ahead of network-side upgrades, Vantiva CTO Charles Cheevers says. Wi-Fi 7 is a perfect match for D4.0, so what role will Wi-Fi 8 play?
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Walmart appears to be Globalstar's secret customer | by Mike Dano | LightReading.com

Walmart appears to be Globalstar's secret customer | by Mike Dano | LightReading.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
An FCC filing hints at an agreement between Globalstar and Walmart to test XCOM RAN equipment in Walmart distribution facilities in Brooksville, Florida; and Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
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Municipalities can apply for BEAD. Will it matter? | by Julia King | FierceTelecom.com

Municipalities can apply for BEAD. Will it matter? | by Julia King | FierceTelecom.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Despite roadblocks thrown up against public broadband, municipalities will still be allowed to apply for BEAD grants Whether or not they'll win any money&nb | Public broadband networks are allowed to throw their hats into the BEAD money ring. But do they actually have a shot at winning?
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Judge Sides With Google In Battle Over Faceprint Database | by Wendy Davis | MediaPost.com

Judge Sides With Google In Battle Over Faceprint Database | by Wendy Davis | MediaPost.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
A federal judge has dismissed claims that Google violated an Illinois biometric privacy law by allegedly amassing a database of faceprints.
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How Much US Consumers Pay for Streaming Video: Deloitte Media Survey | by Todd Spangler | Variety.com

How Much US Consumers Pay for Streaming Video: Deloitte Media Survey | by Todd Spangler | Variety.com | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Deloitte's 2024 Media Trends report found Americans pay $61/month for streaming video, and that 36% think the cost is too high.
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ACP is Going Away: Time to Remove the Mask and Go After the Unjust & Unreasonable Rates. | by Bruce Kushnick | Medium.com

Please Sir! May I have Another?

 

READ THE REPORT: The IRREGULATORS Call for Audits and Investigations of the Cable, Broadband, Internet, Phone & Wireless Service Prices, the Underlying Revenues, Expenses, Profits, as Well as the Controlling Factors — the Cross-Subsidies and Regulatory Capture.

 

This cable triple play bill, modified, is from our new short report, summarized herein, outlining the excess charges, made up fees and hyper inflated rates we now pay in America — the word ‘affordability’ does not exist. With the ACP program winding down, it is time for some reality about how we ended up with prices that are multiples of what is charged overseas — should be front and center.

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MN: Intrepid Fiber expands to Minnetonka | by Ann Treacy | Blandin on Broadband

MN: Intrepid Fiber expands to Minnetonka | by Ann Treacy | Blandin on Broadband | Surfing the Broadband Bit Stream | Scoop.it
Yahoo Finance reports… Intrepid Fiber Networks is excited to announce the latest expansion of its open access fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) network in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Intrepid Fiber will bring secure, reliable, fiber broadband connectivity to over 54,000 households and businesses, setting a new standard for Internet services in the region.
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