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The FCC announced today that they would be reversing their decision on Net Neutrality, which to me personally is a big deal. This decision will take place on December 14th, 2018. Note: This post has been edited. News Rollup NYT Article here and WP article here The Oatmeal has a link here  http://theoatmeal.com/blog/net_neutrality Why Does This Matter John Oliver has done a couple of episodes on Net Neutrality here , here , and here .  If you want another source, the ACLU has a link here that explains the details as well as PBS here . I'll offer my own explanation here: Net Neutrality is the idea that you should be able to access content on the internet equally - at the same speed and quality, regardless of the content you are viewing. This means in practice that you can visit YouTube at the same speed and quality as when you're visiting JoeBobsBlog.com; regardless of the content you're viewing, you get it at the same speed and quality. Revoking N...

I woke up this morning to this Reddit thread here over bizarre videos being put up on YouTube targeting kids which links to a Verge article here which in turn links to a New York Times article here and a Medium.com blog post here over the matter. I decided to write 60 Minutes to see if they would do a story on this. Below is what I wrote: ---- To 60 Minutes, I was wondering if you would produce a story on inappropriate videos being targeted toward children on social media sites, specifically on YouTube. There was a recent The Verge article here that gives links to other articles here (Medium.com) and here (New York Times) that give an overview over this phenomenon. Given this, it stills seems that while YouTube claims that they will be working on improving this problem, it seems that simply just flagging the videos still does no good or re-writing algorithms. There was a recent Reddit thread here that discusses the problem, and a few of the commenters have pointe...

Overview The GOP has been trying to push a major legislative agenda for the President sometime this year, and after the failure of the health care reform the next major issue is tax reform. This post is a roll up of information on the tax reform. There are two versions, the House version and the Senate version. The Senate version isn't officially a bill yet. Rollup and Points I wanted to do a quick roll up of the current GOP tax bills, of which there are two versions, the House and the Senate version. The latter link gives a nice comparison of the differences between the two bills. The NPR article on the Senate only version is here . We should note that the Senate's version isn't officially a bill yet. The CBO has done a score  on the House version which would add $1.7 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years. The Hill has an article on that here . The House version also makes the corporate tax cuts permanent and reduces the corporate tax rate to 20% f...