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Do you have any idea how the internet works, or how it even started?

Or even, what the risks and rewards are of the up-and-coming web3 internet?

A short 🧵 to keep you up to speed on this crucial public infrastructure 🚠
1/ The origins 🕳️

Some say the OG was telegraphy, which allows us to share messages globally through electrical signals.

Others say it was the first network of local computers from the 1950s...

In any case, these pseudo-internets are certainly part of the recipe.
2/ Network of networks 🖇️

Key innovations in the 60s and 70s at @NPL 🇬🇧 , #ARPANET 🇺🇸 and #cyclades 🇫🇷 culminated in a network of computer networks 🖇️

An exclusive "inter-net" was born, used solely by academic and defence institutions, not quite the facilitator we know.
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Why does the Government of India, Twitter or broadband service providers censor searchable adult content on Twitter like searching hashtag “Allie Haze”? @Twitter #adultcontent #porn #censorship #internet #sex #broadband @JioCare #jiofiber @internetfreedom Image
@Twitter @JioCare @internetfreedom Why does the Government of India, Twitter, or broadband service providers censor searchable adult content on Twitter like searching hashtag “Allie Haze”? Is it by court order? @PMOIndia @JioCare @internetfreedom @TwitterSupport @barandbench
@Twitter @JioCare @internetfreedom @PMOIndia @TwitterSupport @barandbench Did I miss something related to the twitter adult content censorship circular from the Government of India or the Court? @IndianExpress indianexpress.com/article/techno…
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Thread | A quick recap of latest #telecom news and #insights, including Telefónica Deutschland- Elastic NV deal, DIV II fund, new Digicel CFO and much more:

O2 Germany picks Elastic for IT transformation
eu1.hubs.ly/H01DVMX0

#5G #Telecommunications #Telefonica #Germany
Safaricom’s long-awaited Ethiopian network begins pilot

telcotitans.com/vodafonewatch/…

#Safaricom #Africa #Ethiopia
Verizon’s John Townsend takes on new role at Digicel

telcotitans.com/vodafonewatch/…

#Caribbean #Management #CEO #Finance #US #SouthAmerica
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Finance Minister @nsitharaman is presenting the Union Budget 2022-23 in Parliament

#AatmanirbharBharatKaBudget #Budget2022

Watch here📺 twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
Union Finance Minister @nsitharaman rises to present #Budget2022 in Parliament

Watch 📡LIVE📡:

Stay tuned for updates

#AatmanirbharBharatKaBudget
FM @nsitharaman begins presentation of #Budget2022 by expressing empathy with those who had to bear adverse health and economic affects of #COVID19 #Pandemic

Overall sharp rebound and recovery of the economy is reflective of 🇮🇳India's strong resilience

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It's official. @POTUS signed the bipartisan #InfrastructureBill into law.

When Do We Get Our Broadband?
benton.org/blog/when-do-w…

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Now, action shifts from Congress to key federal agencies that will implement the broadband provisions.

@brookingsMetro noted it will be a longer-term, patient approach to rebuilding American competitiveness through infrastructure @jwkane1 @CarolineRGeorge @AdieTomer
Some key actions and deadlines in the months and years ahead:
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We've put together a multi-part series on #broadband provisions in the #infrastructure bill:
benton.org/digital-beat?t…

Analysis organized around: Deployment | Adoption | Middle-Mile | Workforce Training | Tribal Connectivity
#DigitalEquity #InfrastructureBill
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First up: Over *$42 Billion* for broadband deployment grants to the states.

The Largest U.S. Investment in Broadband Deployment Ever: benton.org/blog/largest-u…
The #infrastructure bill will not just build broadband networks, it aims to ensure that every American can use reliable high-speed internet service.

Enter: #TheDigitalEquityAct
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@SpaceX backed Starlink @SpaceXStarlink #Broadband #Service could debut in #India in 2022:
#SpaceX, venture by #BILLIONAIRE #ElonMusk @elonmusk aims to launch company's own #Satellite #internet service. #Aerospace company listed multiple Indian locations on website.
#Thread #tech
Services will be available on first-come-first-serve criteria. Starlink as concept is collection of tiny internet satellites orbiting closer to #Earth surface, at altitude of 550km, which, when compared to larger navigation and #communications satellites operate from medium Earth
Orbit of around 2,000 to 35,000 km or, at times geosynchronous orbit, usually operates from beyond 35,000 km. Potential users can pre-book Starlink services in India on website for refundable amount of $99 or Rs 7,265.
Due to proximity to planet's surface, Starlink and other...
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So tired of @lawandeconomics argument that poor people just don't want #broadband & we don't know why. Why don't more people participate in #Lifeline? Maybe bc the subsidy is tiny & the Trump @FCC did its level best to make it hard to get. wired.com/story/opinion-…. #SubCommTech
@lawandeconomics @FCC I also invite anybody to go to their local library & wait a few hours to use the computers with free Internet access. #SubCommTech
@lawandeconomics @FCC Those with their hair aflame over "government-run broadband" seem unaware that the most common models today are public-private partnerships & open access networks which give commercial ISPs the opportunity to provide connectivity outside their service areas. #SubCommTech
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Looking forward to hearing fr @ChrisJ_Lewis @FranOchillo & @joitweets talk about how gov't can foster digital equity - both in affordability & availability at today's @EnergyCommerce hearing at 11:30. WATCH: energycommerce.house.gov/committee-acti… #SubCommTech
@ChrisJ_Lewis @FranOchillo @joitweets @EnergyCommerce Special thanks to @FrankPallone @USRepMikeDoyle & the amazing @EnergyCommerce staff for keeping focus on #broadband affordability & how 2 ensure that low-income residents get robust high speed service.
@ChrisJ_Lewis @FranOchillo @joitweets @EnergyCommerce @FrankPallone @USRepMikeDoyle .@USRepMikeDoyle gives a big nod to community #broadband & open access networks as drivers of competition - lowering prices & improving services from competitors & incumbents. #SubCommTech
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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 05/02/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/05/02/dai…
Israeli scholars find millions-year-old human traces in ‘Miracle’ Cave

jpost.com/archaeology/is…

#israel #HumanHistory #caves #archaeology #discovery
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INFOGRAPHIC🔎President Biden’s ambitious #Infrastructure plan includes a varied package of initiatives, from traditional projects like roads and bridges to #Climate initiatives and programs outside the traditional infrastructure scope. (Thread👇) theepochtimes.com/biden-admins-2…
Below is a summary of proposed expenditures under the $2 trillion-plus #AmericanJobsPlan that Democrats will try to pass through a nearly evenly split Congress in the coming months, which Biden says is the 1st in his 2-part economic plan.
Biden's plan includes $621 billion for transportation infrastructure and resilience projects, including $115 billion to modernize bridges, highways and roads.

This also includes funding to improve #AirQuality, limit greenhouse gas #Emissions, and reduce congestion.
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Just got notification of an amended copy of the Education, Labor, Housing and Family Assistance (ELFA) Budget Bill.
The just released C-print of the ELFA budget bill includes a #Broadband program for low-income New Yorkers.
The ELFA Budget bill includes the "COVID-19 EMERGENCY RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM OF 2021." Payments can cover rental and utility arrears going back to March 2020 and up to 3 months of prospective rent. Only "rent burdened" households can get prospective rent relief. #RentRelief
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And there you have it! Seems confirmation of the "Guowang" (GW/国网) from Bao Weimin of #CASC/#CAS from the sidelines of the NPC.

No details other than "we will build a GW", but official recognition is big news @larrypress @Megaconstellati

🇨🇳🛰️

news.cnstock.com/news,bwkx-2021…
For context: Guowang is the long rumored major Chinese #LEO #broadband #constellation.

To now, the firmest evidence we had was several ITU filings (see tweet below), but with confirmation from Bao, we can now assume the project is "official"

An indication of sentiment in China about the project--Chinese #IFC WeChat group where the announcement was posted:

First message: Screenshot confirming Guowang
Second message: Finally it was officially announced

#OpenSecret 🇨🇳🛰️
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Super disappointed in this #netneutrality column by @ShiraOvide feat @ceciliakang. It misses the mark badly in so many ways. nytimes.com/2021/02/25/tec…
@ShiraOvide @ceciliakang 2 focus on the no blocking, throttling & discrimination mandates really is seeing half the story. What the Trump @FCC did in 2017, in addition 2 repealing the #netneutrality rules, was to abdicate its legal authority 2 protect consumers & competition in the #broadband market.
@ShiraOvide @ceciliakang @FCC That legal authority (Title II) gives the @FCC the power 2 protect consumers, promote competition & close the digital divide. Every action the @FCC takes 2 strengthen #Lifeline or give $$$ for rural #broadband deployment is on shaky legal ground without Title II authority.
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1/ Check out this detailed summary by AMAzing ⁦@AmerMedicalAssn⁩ advocacy staff:

•Select provisions of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, a comprehensive omnibus spending package

•AMA table of #Medicare physician impact broken down by specialty ImageImage
2/ Dec. 22, 2020, the President signed into law the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 that:

•Funds the federal government through FY 2021,

•Provides a new round of #COVID19 relief and economic stimulus, and

•Imposes new restrictions on #SurpriseMedicalBilling.
3/ For an @AmerMedicalAssn summary of select provisions in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, please see here: tinyurl.com/y65utfno
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Thread re: $7B for #broadband in the COVID-19 bill. Still waiting on the final bill (computer & printer problems, I'm told), but the breakdown is something like this:
1) $32B for $50 ($75 for tribal lands) monthly emergency bb benefit; 2) $1B for deployment on tribal lands 1/
3) $250M 4 telehealth; 4) $65M 4 #broadband mapping; 5) $300M grant program 4 bb in rural areas; 6) $2B for "rip & replace" (removing Chinese made equipment & replacing w. something more secure; 7) $285M for a "Connecting Minorities Community Fund," 2 expand bb in near HBCUs. 2/
There's a lot 2 celebrate in this bill, but nobody who is trying 2 close the #digitaldivide believes that this is enough. Here's what we should be most happy about: Bipartisan agreement that #broadband Internet is essential 4 full participation in society, economy, & culture. 3/
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BIG NEWS!!!! The COVID-19 relief bill that Congress has agreed on has $7B for #broadband, including $3.2 for a monthly $50 "emergency broadband benefit" 4 low-income households & the recently unemployed. My statement: gigisohn.com/media/sohn-che…
I wrote about the #broadband benefit for CNN.com in September. cnn.com/2020/09/09/per…. I'm shocked & delighted that it made it into the bill - was not expecting it.
Kudos to @FrankPallone & his amazing staff & to @SpeakerPelosi & the unsinkable @russelldegraff. They made it happen when the rest of us had pretty much given up.
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Item #3 for building back better
#DIGITIZATION

We are unlikely to return to the same state of the world as when we entered the #pandemic, nor is this desirable. #Remoteworking has the potential to become more prevalent after the crisis.
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Investments might shift from face-to-face working (and lower the cost of #officerealestate and time for #commuting).
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#Stimulus spending should focus investments on the enablers of this new approach to work, e.g., #5G rollouts, #broadband infrastructure, #satellites for global reach, server farms for adequate capacity, etc, all with effective #privacy protection.
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@MoAgriculture @GovParsonMO @missouri4h To our flag let’s all pledge loyalty.
Yet to farm nowadays? GOP
for our farmers ain’t grand as
they grift and gladhand.
Ever fewer folks toil endlessly. Half
my family grew up on the farm, when
state gov’t meant folks no harm.
@MissouriFFA

#MO4H 🤒 1/6 🗳️
@MoAgriculture @GovParsonMO @missouri4h @MissouriFFA Parson’s lip service —
for Trump’s regime —
rank hypocrisy to the extreme.
Trump pretends tariffs’ rate
keeps America great; it
destroys the Agrarian Dream.
Mike lets on like he’s down
on the farm, as Trump’s
“policies” bring farmers harm.

#MO4H 🤒 2/6 🗳️
@MoAgriculture @GovParsonMO @missouri4h @MissouriFFA Thanks to Donald’s trade policy lapse,
U.S. small family farms face “collapse.”
So said Jerry Moran,
proving Putin’s best man on
farm livelihoods happily craps.

#MO4H 🤒 3/6 🗳️ #mogov
@Mo_Soy @MissouriCorn @MoLegDems @MoSenDems @MissouriPress @HouseAgDems
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@mikeparson @MissouriCorn To our flag let’s all pledge loyalty.
Yet to farm nowadays? “G”OP
for our farmers ain’t grand as
they grift and gladhand.
🤑🤝🤑
Ever fewer folks toil endlessly. Half
my family grew up on the farm, when
state gov’t meant folks no harm. 🤒
1/6

@MissouriFFA
@mikeparson @MissouriCorn @MissouriFFA Parson’s lip service —
for Trump’s regime —
rank hypocrisy to the extreme.
Trump pretends tariffs’ rate
keeps America great; it
destroys the Agrarian Dream.
Mike lets on like he’s down
on the farm, as Trump’s
“policies” bring farmers harm.

#MO4H 🤒 2/6 🗳️
@mikeparson @MissouriCorn @MissouriFFA Thanks to Donald’s trade policy lapse,
U.S. small family farms face “collapse.”
So said @jerrymoran,
proving Putin’s best man on
farm livelihoods happily craps.

#MO4H 🤒 3/6 🗳️ #mogov
@Mo_Soy @MissouriCorn @MoLegDems @MoSenDems @MissouriPress @HouseAgDems
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@kayhoflander @mikeparson @TeamParsonMO @Mikelkehoe @JayAshcroftMO @FitzpatrickMO @Eric_Schmitt @TeamSchmittMO @s_webber @JasonKander @KDHE @VFWHQ @Mizzou @muhealth @WUSTL @BluebirdsofMO @collhistgarden @mizzouatheart @PhyllisMarion7 @sarahkendzior @CoriBush @GovJayNixon @KCStar @stltoday @KCTV5 @clairecmc @MO_HouseDems At this juncture, it’s clear to explain
an old saw from Mike Parson’s campaign:
random rural yard signs to
applaud Mike’s designs to
continue his post-Greitens reign.
In this specimen Parson would take in
uninformed voters in County Macon. 1/2 🔥 #mogov 🗳️
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@kayhoflander @mikeparson @TeamParsonMO @Mikelkehoe @JayAshcroftMO @FitzpatrickMO @Eric_Schmitt @TeamSchmittMO @s_webber @JasonKander @KDHE @VFWHQ @Mizzou @muhealth @WUSTL @BluebirdsofMO @collhistgarden @mizzouatheart @PhyllisMarion7 @sarahkendzior @CoriBush @GovJayNixon @KCStar @stltoday @KCTV5 @clairecmc @MO_HouseDems The reality, though: far more grim
as school districts may soon sink, not swim
in each piteous scene
of a mass quarantine as
new cases exceed counties’ brim.
Yet the venue’s the same:
still in Macon. Why no
mask mandate? Parson’s mistaken.
2/2 🔥 #mogov 🗳️
@kayhoflander @mikeparson @TeamParsonMO @Mikelkehoe @JayAshcroftMO @FitzpatrickMO @Eric_Schmitt @TeamSchmittMO @s_webber @JasonKander @KDHE @VFWHQ @Mizzou @muhealth @WUSTL @BluebirdsofMO @collhistgarden @mizzouatheart @PhyllisMarion7 @sarahkendzior @CoriBush @GovJayNixon @KCStar @stltoday @KCTV5 @clairecmc @MO_HouseDems Yes; thank goodness the
National Guard, unlike Mike,
at this moment works hard
citizens to protect.
Parson’s lies we reject,
evidenced by his COVID scorecard.
Folks still ask: why no #MaskUp
mandate? Parson’s post outweighs
the #ShowMe State.

🔥 #mogov 🗳️
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#Lifeline, the only federal program that helps close the #DigitalDivide by making voice & #broadband more affordable, has also become an essential resource for low-income people across the country during the ongoing #COVID19 pandemic. 1/4 bit.ly/NALA-MSS-Comme…
But it's in this troubled context that the @FCC is considering major, permanent changes to the #Lifeline program that could jeopardize subscribers’ access to essential voice and #broadband services. 2/4 #HomeworkGap #COVID19 bit.ly/NALA-MSS-Comme…
.@NCLC4consumers and 18 other advocacy orgs (below) wrote @FCC today urging it to waive the #Lifeline mobile #broadband minimum service standard (MSS) increase & voice support phase-down scheduled to take effect on December 1, 2020. 3/4 #DigitalDivide bit.ly/NALA-MSS-Comme…
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