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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – OCTOBER 31, 2023  
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_ Some headway on net neutrality... maybe _

, Mike Luckovich | Copyright 2016 Creators Syndicate

 

* Another Attempt at Net Neutrality
* Israel Silences Gaza Social Media
* Mainstream Media Respond to the Siege
* States Sue Meta
* A Very Special Episode of “The Morning Show”
* Online Opinion Crowns a Mediocre Artist
* What the !#@% is a Passkey?
* NYT vs Internet Archive
* X/Twitter Bleeding Money
* Digital Media Survival Guide

ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT NET NEUTRALITY
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By Sara Morrison
Vox

Five years after net neutrality’s (temporary) demise, the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC) is set to fulfill the Biden
administration’s vision of re-implementing the Obama-era policy.
That means the effort to reclassify broadband internet from an
information service to a common carrier, subject to increased
oversight and regulations just like phone companies, is back, too.

ISRAEL SILENCES GAZA SOCIAL MEDIA
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By Matt Burgess
Wired

In the days after October 7, people living in Gaza have been unable to
communicate with family or friends, leaving them unsure whether loved
ones are alive. Finding reliable news about events has become harder.
Rescue workers have not been able to connect to mobile networks,
hampering recovery efforts. And information flowing out of Gaza has
been stymied.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA RESPOND TO THE SIEGE

* MAJOR NEWS NETWORKS SIDELINE PALESTINIAN ANALYSTS
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  By Mari Cohen, Jewish Currents
 
* OBJECTIVITY OR OMERTA?
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Richard Seymour, Verso Books

 

STATES SUE META
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By Christia Spears Brown
The Conversation

Meta officials had internal research in March 2020 showing that
Instagram – the social media platform most used by
adolescents after TikTok – is harmful to teen girls’ body image
and well-being. But the company swept those findings under the rug to
continue conducting business as usual.

A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE OF “THE MORNING SHOW”
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By Melanie McFarland
Salon

“The Morning Show” is a ‘90s network primetime soap masquerading
as a prestige drama. Power struggles! Backstabbing! Surprise
hookups! But during “Strict Scrutiny,” its writer Bill Kennedy
clicks a puzzle piece into place right around the time the UBA’s
staff reacts to the 2022 SCOTUS leak tipping off the Supreme
Court’s intent to overturn _Roe v. Wade._

ONLINE OPINION CROWNS A MEDIOCRE ARTIST
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By Ben Davis
Artnet News

Instead of art that gains traction over time via traditional channels
and then breaks out to a wider audience, there are now regularly art
phenomena that get explosively popular with an immense audience,
leaving art institutions and everyone else to sort out what a
particular cultural trend means after it has already happened.

WHAT THE !#@% IS A PASSKEY?
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By Jacob Hoffman-Andrews
Electronic Frontier Foundation

A new login technique is becoming available in 2023: the passkey. The
passkey promises to solve phishing and prevent password reuse. But
lots of smart and security-oriented folks are confused about what
exactly a passkey _is_. There’s a good reason for that. A passkey
is in some sense one of two (or three) different things, depending on
how it’s stored.

NYT VS INTERNET ARCHIVE
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By Glyn Moody
Techdirt

The New York Times tried to block a web crawler that was affiliated
with the famous Internet Archive, a project whose easy-to-use
comparisons of article versions has sometimes led to embarrassment for
the newspaper.

X/TWITTER BLEEDING MONEY
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By Dan Milmo
The Guardian

From dumping a world-renowned brand to attempting to overhaul the
company’s business model, Elon Musk has tipped his business into a
state of constant flux, with advertisers slashing spending, user
numbers down, regulators circling and the staff at less than 50% of
what it used to be. 

DIGITAL MEDIA SURVIVAL GUIDE
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By Feven Merid
Columbia Journalism Review

We spoke to fifteen people with expertise in different facets of
media, collecting navigational guidance. At this difficult time for
the journalism business, it may be helpful to remember that nothing is
inevitable. Choices were made that led us where we are, and we can
decide what step we take at a crossroads. 

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* Israel
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* The Morning Show
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* Passkey
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