---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-ID: <20200811191346.GA5917@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:13:46 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Canada: Competition Bureau's Annual Plan Focuses On Proactive Monitoring, Health And Telecom In The Wake Of COVID-19 by Gideon Kwinter On July 7, 2020, the Competition Bureau released its annual plan, which sets out the Bureau's priorities and initiatives for the year ahead. This year's plan, titled "Protecting competition in uncertain times", demonstrates a focus on proactive detection, the telecom- munications and health sectors, the digital economy and managing the implications of COVID-19. https://tinyurl.com/y4e4g244 -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200811191739.GA5945@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:17:39 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: FCC Announces Meeting of Hospital Robocall Protection Group The group, required under the TRACED Act, is to issue best practices this year. "Robocalls can interfere with the critical life-saving work of hospitals and health care facilities and their dedicated front-line staff," FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a news release from the FCC . Now that the group is established, it must issue best practices this year regarding how service providers can combat unlawful robocalls made to hospitals, how hospitals can better protect themselves from such calls, and how federal and state governments can help combat these calls, ACA International previously reported. https://www.acainternational.org/news/fcc-announces-meeting-of-hospital-robocall-protection-group -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ***** Moderator's Note ***** I heard a folk song a few years ago: Dar Williams wrote it. It's got a line in it about an ice storm, and a woman listening to the radio ... And this just in, we're asking everyone to turn off their power They need it at the hospital. When I heard that, I remembered a storm from my youth, in a suburb near Boston, when everyone was supposed to turn off their power, because they needed it at the hospital. I'm old now, and too cynical for my own good, and I cast a jaudiced eye on glib anouncements that hospitals deserve protections that I will pay for - but on this occasion I'll take the advice to heart, and ask that we all stop burning our daylight and wasting our energy listening to the privileged few tell us that "we" must sacrifice so that "they" don't need to do without. We have to save our precious supply of common sense, allegiance, and (above all) willingness to fight for the right. They need it at the hospital. Bill Horne Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200811193228.GA6038@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:32:28 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: Commerce Dept. Petitions FCC To Issue Rules Clarifying CDA Section 230 by Jeffrey D. Neuburger On July 27, 2020, the Commerce Department submitted a petition requesting the FCC initiate a rulemaking to clarify the provisions of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). Unrelated, but part of the same fervor in Washington to "rein in social media," the leaders of the major technology companies appeared before the House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee at a hearing yesterday, July 29, 2020, to discuss the Committee's ongoing investigation of competition in the digital marketplace, where some members inquired about content moderation practices. Moreover, last month, a pair of Senators introduced the PACT Act, a targeted (but still substantial) update to the CDA (and other CDA reform bills are also being debated, including a bill to carve out sexually exploitative material involving children from the CDA`s reach). https://tinyurl.com/y6jp6efr -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ Message-ID: <20200811194507.GA6297@telecom.csail.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2020 19:45:07 +0000 From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org> Subject: IA: 911 outages reported in Black Hawk County by Marissa SchwartzTuesday, August 11th 2020 BLACK HAWK COUNTY, Iowa - Residents living in Black Hawk County may be experiencing a 911 outage for CenturyLink customers, according to the sheriff's office. https://cbs2iowa.com/news/local/911-outages-reported-in-black-hawk-county -- Bill Horne Telecom Digest Moderator ------------------------------ ********************************************* End of telecom Digest Wed, 12 Aug 2020