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On robocalls: Walden says in meetings with telecom execs, carriers have told him “they’re willing to lean in full force. But they also said, ‘Look, when we do that, we’re probably going to catch a call that isn’t a robocall." — PolitiTweet.org

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Doyle opens the FCC oversight hearing saying regulators have failed to hold anybody accountable so far for the various location data scandals the press has been reporting on for months — PolitiTweet.org

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Now, the FCC's commissioners are about to testify before Congress about their work. Watch live here: https://t.co/59uGfEr45E — PolitiTweet.org

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@lizzieohreally @TheAtlantic Woooooo! — PolitiTweet.org

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But @AjitPaiFCC did say that he’s ready to take further action, possibly requiring carriers to offer automatic enrollment in robocall blocking, if they don’t move quickly enough themselves. — PolitiTweet.org

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The FCC declined to answer my question about whether it would consider forcing companies to do automatic robocall blocking for free, if we later discover consumers are being charged for it. — PolitiTweet.org

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Will this service cost you? It’s not clear. The FCC says it doesn’t expect consumers to have to pay, because phone companies will save money by not having to carry as many robocalls or deal with as many customer complaints. But it’s not mandating that these services be free. — PolitiTweet.org

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You can currently sign up for some of these technologies now, depending on your provider. But the FCC said not enough people were choosing to opt in, so they’re trying to make it clearer to companies that automatic enrollment is okay. — PolitiTweet.org

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The FCC has announced a proposal aimed at limiting the scourge of unwanted robocalls. The measure would basically give carriers a green light to block robocalls automatically and to opt you into that service by default. — PolitiTweet.org

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CSIS”s Jim Lewis says he was talking to a European telco exec who claimed that Huawei offered a 90% (!!) discount on 5G gear because, according to the exec, Huawei was “desperate to get into our telecommunications core" — PolitiTweet.org

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"Disney will assume full operational control of Hulu, effective immediately.” https://t.co/2bNc9KwKnk — PolitiTweet.org

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Apple says it’s “confident we will prevail … and that the App Store is not a monopoly by any metric.” Full statement: https://t.co/XORPmKUJPo — PolitiTweet.org

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For a series about how choices have consequences, it’s kind of fitting that GoT's writers will forever have to reckon with their own responsibility in squandering the end of the show. — PolitiTweet.org

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I asked Twitter about this and they’re declining to say how many accounts were affected and when the issue was discovered, just that affected people are being notified. https://t.co/aJDZ9UdJ0O? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HalSinger: Most persuasive argument in the majority ruling right here. If we create the Apple-exemption, then *future* monopolists woul… — PolitiTweet.org

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To be clear, this ruling isn’t about whether Apple is *actually* a monopolist charging monopoly prices. It’s just about whether iPhone owners can sue in court claiming that it is. — PolitiTweet.org

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But today the Supreme Court held that the case against Apple is a little different. https://t.co/7x6v5BasjO — PolitiTweet.org

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(In Illinois Brick, the Supreme Court held that the state of Illinois couldn’t sue Illinois Brick over an alleged conspiracy to fix the price of concrete blocks, because the state hadn’t purchased the blocks directly from Illinois Brick but rather through a long supply chain.) — PolitiTweet.org

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Apple had argued that consumers are really buying from app developers, while Apple is just an intermediary and can’t be sued by iPhone owners under a precedent known as Illinois Brick. — PolitiTweet.org

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The Supreme Court has ruled that a group of iPhone owners can sue Apple over high app prices allegedly stemming from Apple’s “monopolistic” control over the iOS ecosystem: https://t.co/dY2WrhSOMT — PolitiTweet.org

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@geoffreyfowler @TonyRomm @shefalikulkarni Mind meld, Geoff — PolitiTweet.org

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@TonyRomm @shefalikulkarni @geoffreyfowler That’s it Tony, you’re Beans from now on — PolitiTweet.org

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@shefalikulkarni Shef. — PolitiTweet.org

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At this point it may be all we deserve — PolitiTweet.org

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Social media in 2025 is just going to be us sending each other those algorithmically generated, Gmail-style niceties back and forth, isn’t it — PolitiTweet.org

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@ryanjtracy @johndmckinnon Congrats on the new gig and welcome to the beat! — PolitiTweet.org

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China's foreign ministry hits back at the U.S. over the FCC’s blockage of China Mobile, calling for an end to “unjustified oppression of Chinese enterprises": https://t.co/Bgh4jwwTMo (hat tip: @adschina) https://t.co/6CjIhPDrLU — PolitiTweet.org

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It’d be interesting if Chris Hughes ended up being the one to make tech regulation a major campaign issue. — PolitiTweet.org

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Haven’t you ever wondered what’s really on the other side of a Sarlacc pit — PolitiTweet.org

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(Zuckerberg is in Paris this week meeting with European officials.) — PolitiTweet.org