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The Internet that you know and love might be about to get worse, after the US government scrapped net neutrality rules that prevented big Internet companies from choking bandwidth from some areas of the web in favor of the stuff that's going to make big money.  For them, not us.  This will impact Australia and every other country on earth because of the volume of net traffic that goes through the United States.  The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), packed with Trump's flunkies, voted 3-2 to dump the old rules. 

The American Civil Liberties Union blasted the decision as "a radical departure that risks erosion of the biggest free speech platform the world has ever known".  Senator Bernie Sanders said, "This is an egregious attack on our democracy," and, "When our democratic institutions are already in peril, we must do everything we can to stop this decision from taking effect."  But it's not just free speech advocates worried, the specter of unfair business practices worries Netflix which accused Trump's cronies of gutting the "protections that ushered in an unprecedented era of innovation, creativity & civic engagement", and is promising that "this is the beginning of a longer legal battle". 

In addition to challenging the FCC in the courts, Net Neutrality advocates will pressure the US congress to invoke the Congressional Review Act to pass a resolution of disapproval.  This is a mechanism that allows Congress to overrule any regulations enacted by federal agencies.  Even with more than 80 Congressional Republicans taking big money from the telecom industry to oppose net neutrality, and GOP control of all three branches of the US government, the party is not unified on this topic and many Republicans favor Net Neutrality.

ANYWAY...

Disney is buying 20th Century Fox's non-news assets - an incredible media empire assembled by Rupert Murdoch over the years that includes:  Fox's movie and television studios, the FX and National Geographic cable channels, Sky Plc, Tata Sky, Star India, and majority control of the video streaming service Hulu, which is also partially owned by Comcast and Time Warner.  In return, Fox shareholders - which include the Murdochs - will get a 25 percent stake in the larger Disney.  Does it seem even remotely right for one company to have that much control over that much media?  The remaining Fox assets will swirl around the porcelain bowl of Murdoch's conservative propaganda outlets like Fox news and the Fox Business Channel as well as some sports networks.

As many as 13,700 Rohingya were killed in this year's violence and ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, according to the group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).  Myanmar denies deliberately pushing hundreds of thousands of the Muslim minority out of the country into refugee camps in Bangladesh, and claims only 394 were killed - mostly militants.  But MSF conducted the first surveys of the refugee camps in an attempt to get to the true scope of the violence.  "Extrapolating the data, essentially we can say that you know, our most conservative estimate is that between 9,000 and 13,700 people died," said MSF Australia Executive Director Paul McPhun to the ABC, adding that at least 1,000 were children younger than five years.

At least four children died when a train smashed into a school bus near Perpignan in southern France.  The bus was sheared in two by the force of the collision.

A panel of judges in El Salvador have refused an appeal from a woman serving 30 years in prison for supposedly trying to abort her unborn child.  Teodora Vasquez denies this and says she miscarried, and has gained the support of international human rights campaigners.  She has already served ten years of the draconian sentence in one of the few countries where the medical procedure best left between doctor and patient is outlawed.

US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley claims the missile that Houthi rebel in Yemen fired at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia "might as well have had 'Made in Iran' stickers".  She showed the remnants of a ballistic missile to reporters, claiming that certain design details could only have come from Tehran, apparently the "irrefutable proof" that she had promised to journalists a day earlier.  Iran refuted the proof, saying said the claims were "irresponsible, provocative and destructive".  It's hardly a secret that Iran is backing the Houthi over the Saudi-backed Yemen government, but Tehran has denied arming them.

The militant Islamist group al Shabaab claimed responsibility for a bombing at a police academy in Mogadishu, Somalia.  At least 18 officers were killed and several more were wounded when the bomber struck during a morning parade.