David Goodfriend could have chosen much larger cities in which to place the next installment of his growing business.
St. Louis, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Cleveland, New Orleans and Milwaukee were all available. Instead, he chose his hometown of Madison.
Heâs hoping a successful court fight will allow his business to remain here and continue to expand to other cities around the country.
Locast is in litigation with the NBC, Fox, CBS and ABC over whether it can legally stream the signals of the network s local affiliates, like WMTV-TV in Madison. BARRY ADAMS, STATE JOURNAL
Goodfriend, 51, a Madison West High School graduate, is the founder of Locast, a service that streams over-the-air television stations to computers, phones and tablets via the internet. By using a provision in federal communications law that allows nonprofits to re-transmit broadcast signals without paying the television stations, Locast is now available in some of the largest television marke
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Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz and Republican Sen. John Thune on Wednesday rolled out a bipartisan bill that would increase “accountability” for Big Tech companies and enhance transparency regarding content moderation for users, in an effort to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. The bill, titled the Platform Accountability and Transparency Act and also known as the “PACT Act,” would preserve the benefits of Section 230 a rule that shields social media companies from being held liable for content on their platforms while allowing them to moderate that content while making “significant reforms” to protect Americans using the platforms.
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