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via the New Yorker

Google is promising a million maps for a million people with its redesign. But can it avoid confining us to customized urban bubbles?

via The Atlantic Cities

by Tom Schoenberg, via Bloomberg

The Federal Government has confirmed its financial regulator has started requiring Australian Internet service providers to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, in a move which appears to also open the door for other government agencies to unilaterally block sites they deem questionable in their own portfolios.

via Delimiter

piece by Murong Xuecun, via the Guardian

by Kate Crawford, via Foreign Policy

In 2010, the Federal Communications Commission voted to approve a framework for rules enforcing net neutrality, in effect saying that Internet service providers must treat all Internet traffic equally. Here, two experts debate whether Congress should overturn those rules.

via WSJ

We are used to thinking of a “mass media” market made up of large newspapers and TV networks as the normal state of affairs in media, but what if that was just a historical anomaly?

by Mathew Ingram, via paidContent 

ESPN is reportedly in negotiations with Verizon to exempt its content from the carrier’s data caps. Such a deal would set a precedence for a very different mobile internet than the one we know today.

via GigaOM