Stanford CIS

U.S. announces charges in JPMorgan hack; Apple creates 1,000 new jobs in Ireland; why activists hate T-Mobile’s video plan

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"CONTROVERSY OVER T-MOBILE VIDEO PLAN: T-Mobile’s plan to allow customers to watch video services like Netflix on their devices without counting the usage against their plans is drawing criticism from consumer advocates. Supporters of net neutrality warned the program could “tilt the In­ter­net in fa­vor of the biggest com­pan­ies, vi­ol­at­ing the prin­ciple of net neut­ral­ity. ‘As it stands, it looks like a net-neut­ral­ity vi­ol­a­tion right now,’ said Bar­bara van Schewick, a pro­fess­or at Stan­ford Law School and a lead­ing net-neut­ral­ity sup­port­er. ‘The es­sence of net neut­ral­ity is that we don’t want In­ter­net ser­vice pro­viders to pick win­ners and losers,'” National Journal reports."