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Technology, Telecommunications
This category covers technology, science, and communications related issues, including: technology assessment, technology transfer and commercialization, telecommunication rates and fees, telephone and wireless communication, computers and information technology, advanced technology and technological innovations, digital media, communications, internet, mobile, and radio spaces.
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Save Affordable Connectivity Program
Date: Mon, January 29, 2024
If Congress doesn’t act quickly to Save the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) families who receive free and reduced cost school lunch, veterans, and many other low-income consumers could lose their internet access. The ACP allows low-income students to learn online and others to receive medical care via telehealth. But these funds will run out in April.
You can help. You can tell your lawmakers to save the ACP. There’s a bill before Congress—the Affordable Connectivity Program Extension Act (HR 6929/S 3565)—that would provide the funds to extend the program through 2024.
Please urge Congress to help financially-strapped consumers keep their internet access.
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National Legislation
S 1786: Rescuing Every Contributor from Unwanted Recurrences (RECUR) Act
Sponsor: Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) on May 24, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s1786
This legislation would ban political campaigns from automatically opting donors into recurring contributions through pre-checked boxes on online forms. A New York Times investigation found that online operatives have duped both GOP and Democratic voters, many elderly, into providing huge recurring donations.
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National Legislation
S 2072: The UNSUBSCRIBE Act of 2021
Sponsor: Brian Schatz (D-HI), John Thune (R-SD), Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and John Kennedy (R-LA) on June 16, 2021
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/s2072
Customers who have signed up for a free trial of online services or publications would be notified when the free period is ending, and reminded that they must opt out to avoid being billed for a full-price subscription.