Writing Archives - Gigi Sohn

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PROMARKET: The Trump FCC Can’t and Shouldn’t Be the Internet Speech Police

The debate over whether Section 230 needs to be updated is an important one. But the proper venue for that debate is in Congress. Not only does the FCC lack the legal authority to regulate internet platforms, doing so would be at odds with the precedent it set when repealing…

Posted on November 5, 2020November 5, 2020 by Gigi Sohn

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Wired: Trump’s FCC Is Using Junk Data to Downplay Broadband Woes

You can't fix a problem you don’t understand, and it’s very clear that the Federal Communications Commission under Donald Trump doesn’t want to understand its failure to make affordable broadband available to all Americans. During a pandemic when Americans are forced to work, learn, and get their health care online, the…

Posted on September 29, 2020September 29, 2020 by Kip Roderick

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Gigi Sohn for CNN Business: How to make broadband affordable and accessible for everyone

Tens of millions of Americans still lack access to affordable broadband, leaving them stranded on the wrong side of the country's stubborn digital divide at one of the worst possible moments in American history.America's broadband affordability problem has taken on a far greater urgency during a pandemic in which roughly one quarter of households…

Posted on September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 by Gigi Sohn

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Tech Dirt: The Most Important Privacy Case You’ve Never Heard Of

One of the most important privacy cases you’ve never heard of is being litigated right now in a federal district court in Maine. ACA v. Frey is a challenge by the nation’s largest broadband Internet access providers to a Maine law that protects the privacy of the state's broadband Internet users. If…

Posted on June 30, 2020July 7, 2020 by Kip Roderick

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Gigi Sohn at Wired: During the Pandemic, the FCC Must Provide Internet for All

IF ANYONE BELIEVED access to the internet was not essential prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, nobody is saying that today. With ongoing stay-at-home orders in most states, high-speed broadband internet access has become a necessity to learn, work, engage in commerce and culture, keep abreast of news about the virus, and…

Posted on April 28, 2020April 29, 2020 by Gigi Sohn

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Gigi Sohn at The Verge: The FCC should let itself do more to keep Americans connected through the pandemic

As the COVID-19 pandemic has forced schools and workplaces to close all over the country, tens of millions of American children have started to attend classes online and tens of millions of American adults are now teleworking from home. This crisis has highlighted how many Americans lack high-speed wired broadband…

Posted on March 26, 2020April 7, 2020 by Gigi Sohn

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Benton Digital Beat: Nothing is Normal About the T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Review

Last week, ten state attorneys general filed a lawsuit challenging the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint in a federal district court in New York. While it might not seem unusual for state officials tasked with enforcing antitrust and consumer protection laws to seek to halt the 4-to-3 horizontal merger of two of…

Posted on June 18, 2019June 18, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Wired: Why a T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Would be Bad for the Public

Earlier this week, FCC chair Ajit Pai announced that he would soon be asking his fellow commissioners to approve the merger of two of the four nationwide wireless carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint. After a year of deliberation, including thousands of pages of legal and economic filings by proponents and opponents and three congressional…

Posted on May 22, 2019May 22, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Medium: One Year Later, Net Neutrality is Needed More than Ever

For Americans who rely on an open Internet to work, learn, create and speak, today marks a grim anniversary. On December 14, 2017, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai and his two Republican colleagues voted to eliminate the strong and popular 2015 net neutrality rules, which prohibited broadband Internet access…

Posted on December 14, 2018December 14, 2018 by Kip Roderick

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Pro-Market: One Year After the Net Neutrality Repeal: the FCC has Abdicated Its Role Protecting Consumers and Competition.

Today (December 14th) is the one-year anniversary of the FCC’s decision to repeal the net neutrality rules that had been in place since 2015. During the past year, there hasn’t been even one reason underlying that decision that has come true. In fact, the opposite is the case. Prior to…

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