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🌟 𝗦𝗡𝗦 𝗝𝗨 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗹𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗲𝘄𝘀𝗳𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗵 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲! 🙋‍♀️

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#SNSJU #Innovation #Telecommunications #NewsLetter #6G #5G #DigitalEU #Tech @EUCommission @DigitalEU

Africa: Airtel Africa Highlights Importance of Building Africa's Digital Future: [This Day] Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications and mobile money services across 14 African countries, has highlighted industry partnerships, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and data centres as critical pillars for delivering Africa's digital future. newsfeed.facilit8.network/TNzH #Africa #AirtelAfrica #DigitalFuture #Telecommunications #ArtificialIntelligence

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@WiteWulf

The logic is a bit perplexing. I don't see how something that transmits video from orbit to be distributed over fibre/point-to-point links is "500,000 times worse" than something that transmits video down from orbit, transmits it back up to orbit, and then broadcasts it back down again to multiple receivers; or "10,000 more wasteful" than dedicating airwave bandwidth to this.

Plus: YouTube has been streaming this for most of 2025. (Just checked: 223 people watching the YouTube live stream right now.) So it's a mystery why it's only suddenly stupid when #ITVX starts to carry the stream.

What's with this #government of ours? #Canadians take note.

Bill C-8 is currently in second reading in #parliament. It's nominally about increasing "cyber" security. But it contains one of the most chilling things I've seen in #legislation.

In short, it allows a government minister to, with the stroke of a pen, make it illegal for any telecommunications provider in the country to provide any services to any specified person.

No internet.
No phone.
No anything.

Presto: you're suddenly incommunicado.

Note that's without a warrant, without a judge's approval, without a trial, without a charge, nothing, and there's nothing the person being banished can do about it until after the fact - and then they'll have to sue the government to try to overturn it. Good luck paying a lawyer for that!

This is our own little step towards fascism. Imagine a government hostile to your interests suddenly deciding you can't communicate with anyone because the things you say annoy them.

Please let your MP know that this legislation is NOT okay!

parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1

www.parl.caGovernment Bill (House of Commons) C-8 (45-1) - First Reading - An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts - Parliament of CanadaGovernment Bill (House of Commons) C-8 (45-1) - First Reading - An Act respecting cyber security, amending the Telecommunications Act and making consequential amendments to other Acts - Parliament of Canada

The Secret Service recently uncovered a network of over 300 servers and 100,000 SIM cards capable of crippling New York City’s cell service in minutes.

What started as an investigation into swatting threats revealed an infrastructure with the power to disrupt emergency response, mask criminal activity, and even send anonymous texts to the entire U.S. population.

This discovery underscores how easily telecommunications systems can be manipulated at scale. Read the story: cnn.com/2025/09/23/us/swatting

CNN · Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell systemBy John Miller

Ars Technica: US uncovers 100,000 SIM cards that could have “shut down” NYC cell network. “The US Secret Service announced this morning that it has located and seized a cache of telecom devices large enough to ‘shut down the cellular network in New York City.’ And it believes a nation-state is responsible.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/24/ars-technica-us-uncovers-100000-sim-cards-that-could-have-shut-down-nyc-cell-network/

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