Media Alliance

"A pair of bills that would profoundly deregulate the placement of cell-phone towers and antennas in essence giving the telecom companies complete control over where these facilities can go and overriding most local regulations are moving quickly through the state Legislature with almost no news media attention."

"Home-Internet prices rose four times faster than inflation in Trump era."

"That most schools no longer teach openly white supremacist propaganda disturbs the right. Worse, they’re not even teaching a neutral version of history. They’re teaching actual history. That’s a problem if everything you believe in relies on children being indoctrinated early. The hysterical backlash from racist white conservatives has been as total as it has been predictable. We’re seeing the manifestation of this white panic in a growing Republican effort to reshape education again."

"Five of the world’s leading social media platforms are 'effectively unsafe for LGBTQ users,' according to a new report."

Unionization struggle at criminal justice news site The Appeal has thrown out a lot of dirty laundry including charges of internal sexism and racism, undisclosed paid content promotion and unclear ties between the organization itself, its advocacy arm and Tides. https://www.thedailybeast.com/staff-in-the-appeals-crusadin

California appellate court issues firm ruling on online platform liability for the sale of defective and dangerous products. https://www.geekwire.com//california-legal-rulings-may-b/

Lawyer seeks police training materials in Kentucky for the Kentucky State Police during discovery phase of a trial. What he gets: Hitler Uber Alles. https://manualredeye.com//police-training-hitler-present/#

ChinaFile does a review of Chinese surveillance activities using procurement documents, https://www.chinafile.com/state-surveillance-china

"With news deserts rapidly expanding across the U.S., it’s increasingly clear that local journalism has no profitable future. But democracy shouldn’t depend on profits. We need a bold recovery plan that doesn’t rely on market solutions. What we need, then, is to build up a public sector for news."

Had a nice long talk with Ken Silva at Global Data Review about why Prop 24 is bad and you shouldn't vote for it. https://globaldatareview.com//california-vote-privacy-prop

Buzzfeed releases FOIA documents about the deaths of detainees at US immigration camps. https://www.buzzfeednews.com//here-are-thousands-of-docume

State of Virginia passes omnibus policing measure including ban on no knock warrants, prohibitions on some militarized equipment, decertification, and duty to intervene. I'm afraid they did a little better than California did. So far. https://wset.com//gov-northam-signs-new-laws-to-reform-pol

"Since the founding of Frederick Douglass' The North Star to John H. Johnson's Jet to the current influx of Black writers putting out newsletters on their own, Black people have had to create their own forums when they've been shut out of the prestige of mainstream newsrooms."

"Ensuring the loopholes are closed should be a goal, but not at the cost of opening up new ones.". NY Times comes out against Proposition 24. https://www.nytimes.com//o/california-prop-24-privacy.html