Democrats Are Debating Right Now What The Party's Going To Be It's not just who'll lead Democrats, it's whether "wokeness" gets left behind

Democrats Are Debating Right Now What The Party's Going To Be

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Oh Look, It Was Trivial To Buy Troop And Intelligence Officer Location Data From Dodgy, Unregulated Data Brokers There are two major reasons that the U.S. doesn’t pass an internet-era privacy law or regulate data brokers despite a parade of dangerous scandals. One, lobbied by a vast web of interconnected indu…

Oh Look, It Was Trivial To Buy Troop And Intelligence Officer Location Data From Dodgy, Unregulated Data Brokers | Techdirt

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Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.

Accused of violating worker rights, SpaceX and Amazon go after labor board

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Comcast, Charter Sue FTC Over Efforts To Make Canceling Services Easier Earlier this month the FTC announced it was modifying some existing rules to crack down on companies that make it extremely difficult to cancel services. The agency’s revamp of its 1973 “Nega…

Comcast, Charter Sue FTC Over Efforts To Make Canceling Services Easier | Techdirt

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Is Kamala Harris alienating progressives as she courts anti-Trump Republicans? The vice-president is relying on support of high-profile GOP refuseniks as she moves to the centre despite warnings from progressives

Is Kamala Harris alienating progressives as she courts anti-Trump Republicans?

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Transport Workers Union has authorized a strike against SEPTA Transportation Workers Union Local 234 represents SEPTA bus, trolley, and subway operators.

Transport Workers Union has authorized a strike against SEPTA

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“Friends Of The Court” Urge SCOTUS To Slash Consumer Rights Interest groups backed by conservative operatives and billionaire interests are pushing the high court to use upcoming Facebook and Nvidia cases to gut consumer protections.

“Friends Of The Court” Urge SCOTUS To Slash Consumer Rights

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“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock We obtained 900 complaints the FCC received about T-Mobile’s infamous price hike.

“I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock - Ars Technica

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T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users Carriers fight plan to require unlocking of phones 60 days after activation.

T-Mobile, AT&T oppose unlocking rule, claim locked phones are good for users - Ars Technica

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No Longer Consumer Friendly: T-Mobile Fights FCC Phone Unlocking Effort Back in July, the Biden FCC voted to make unlocking your phone easier. As a result, the agency is now crafting new rules that would require that wireless carriers unlock customers’ mobile phones wi…

No Longer Consumer Friendly: T-Mobile Fights FCC Phone Unlocking Effort | Techdirt

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After Bleeding TV Subscribers For Years, Cable Giants Now Losing Broadband Customers To Home 5G, Community-Owned Fiber For much of the last decade, cable giants like Comcast (Xfinity) and Charter (Spectrum) have been protected from TV “cord cutting” by one simple fact: they enjoyed a monopoly over broad…

After Bleeding TV Subscribers For Years, Cable Giants Now Losing Broadband Customers To Home 5G, Community-Owned Fiber | Techdirt

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Strikes Work: Boeing Offers Workers Contract With 35 Percent Wage Increase Congratulations, Boeing workers!

Strikes Work: Boeing Offers Workers Contract With 35 Percent Wage Increase

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New FTC Rules Make It Easier To Cancel Services, Punish Companies For Being Annoying Little Shits About It While FTC boss Lina Khan certainly has had some growing pains, she’s fought for consumer protection and antitrust reform in a way that U.S. regulators haven’t seen for the better part o…

New FTC Rules Make It Easier To Cancel Services, Punish Companies For Being Annoying Little Shits About It | Techdirt

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The Capitalist Threat to Democracy The threat to a true democracy that promotes material well-being, equality, and social solidarity is deeper than Donald Trump. It comes from a capitalism that can never make its peace with democracy.

The Capitalist Threat to Democracy

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More Layoffs At Paramount As Streaming Media Giant’s ‘Merger Synergies’ Continue Over the summer we noted how the brunchlords in charge of Paramount (CBS) decided to eliminate decades of MTV News journalism and Comedy Central history as part of their ongoing…

More Layoffs At Paramount As Streaming Media Giant’s ‘Merger Synergies’ Continue | Techdirt

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The Call Is Out for Mass, Simultaneous Strikes in 4 Years These labor leaders are organizing for 2028. Cooperation across unions and sectors—if carried out on a large scale—would be unprecedented in the 21st-century United States.

The Call Is Out for Mass, Simultaneous Strikes in 4 Years | The Nation

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Lina Khan Is Just Getting Started (She Hopes) Biden’s FTC chair has toughened merger oversight, taken on noncompetes and made the donor class crazy. She hints that there’s a lot more to come, if she’s given the chance.

Lina Khan on a Second FTC Term, AI, Price Gouging, Data Privacy - Bloomberg

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Lina Khan’s future is the future of the Democratic Party – and America – Cory Doctorow

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Boeing withdraws contract offer after talks with striking workers break down Boeing has withdrawn a contract offer that would have given striking workers 30% raises over four years after talks broke down.

Boeing withdraws contract offer after talks with striking workers break down | AP News

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If Harris Wins, Whether She Keeps Lina Khan Will Be Extremely Telling Lina Khan has most certainly faced some growing pains as the head of the FTC, occasionally filing some undercooked cases and raising the hackles of some staff (some grumbling about real missteps, s…

If Harris Wins, Whether She Keeps Lina Khan Will Be Extremely Telling | Techdirt

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A Corporate Lobbying Firm Is Advising the Harris Transition Harris transition team adviser Covington & Burling works to influence the government for dozens of clients and is defending Amazon against the Federal Trade Commission.

A Corporate Lobbying Firm Is Advising the Harris Transition

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About 45,000 workers begin strike at US ports after breakdown in union talks Strike – first by port workers on US east coast since 1977 – threatens to shut down ports from Maine to Texas

About 45,000 workers begin strike at US ports after breakdown in union talks | US unions | The Guardian

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Pluralistic: Corporate Bullshit – Pluralistic by Cory Doctorow

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Illinois governor approves business-friendly overhaul of biometric privacy law Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has signed a bill into law that will significantly curb the penalties companies could face for improperly collecting and using fingerprints and other biometric data from workers and consumers.

Illinois governor approves business-friendly overhaul of biometric privacy law | Reuters

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Big Telecom Will Soon Get $42 BIllion In Taxpayer Subsidies, But Balk At Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People Broadband providers poised to receive $42 billion in taxpayer broadband subsidies from the infrastructure bill are ramping up complaints about a small requirement affixed to the massive handout: th…

Big Telecom Will Soon Get $42 BIllion In Taxpayer Subsidies, But Balk At Providing Affordable Broadband To Poor People | Techdirt

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In Harris, business leaders tired of Biden see a potential friend | CNN Business As vice president, Kamala Harris was a leading player in a remarkably progressive Biden administration that fought mergers, battled Big Tech and called out corporate greed.

In Harris, business leaders tired of Biden see a potential friend

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