Gigi Sohn

About

Gigi Sohn is a Distinguished Fellow at the Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy and a Benton Senior Fellow & Public Advocate. She is the host of the "Tech on the Rocks Podcast." Gigi sits on the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Gigi is one of the nation’s leading public advocates for open, affordable and democratic communications networks. For thirty years, Gigi has worked across the country to defend and preserve the fundamental competition and innovation policies that have made broadband Internet access more ubiquitous, competitive, affordable, open and protective of user privacy. Most recently,…

Media

Court Allows States to Continue to Protect Net Neutrality and Assert Authority over the Broadband Market

COURT ALLOWS STATES TO CONTINUE TO PROTECT NET NEUTRALITY AND ASSERT AUTHORITY OVER THE BROADBAND MARKET In a widely anticipated decision, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Mozilla v. FCC, today struck down the portion of the FCC’s 2017 net neutrality repeal order that…

Posted on October 1, 2019October 1, 2019 by Gigi Sohn

News

The New York Times: Congress and Trump Agreed They Want a National Privacy Law. It is Nowhere in Sight.

A rare thing emerged in Washington early this year: agreement. Republicans and Democrats in Congress, as well as the Trump White House, all said they wanted a new federal law to protect people’s online privacy. Numerous tech companies urged them on. And they had a deadline. With a broad California privacy…

Posted on October 1, 2019October 2, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Slate: The Last Hope for Net Neutrality

It’s confirmed: Net neutrality is legally dead. On Tuesday morning, a federal appeals court reaffirmed the Federal Communications Commission’s repeal of Obama-era net neutrality rules that prohibited internet providers from blocking, slowing down, or speeding up access to websites. In a 200-page decision, the judges on the U.S. Court of…

Posted on October 1, 2019October 2, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Vice Motherboard: Courts Mostly Back FCC Assault on Net Neutrality

A federal appeals court on Tuesday delivered a split decision to the FCC on net neutrality, approving much of the controversial order, but also vacating portions of the proposal that would have also banned states from protecting net neutrality. The FCC’s hugely unpopular (and Orwellian-sounding) “Restoring Internet Freedom” order gutted most of the FCC’s…

Posted on October 1, 2019October 2, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Gizmodo: FCC Improperly Blocked States From Passing Net Neutrality Laws, Appeals Court Rules

A federal appeals court on Tuesday largely upheld the Federal Communications Commission’s decision to roll back nationwide net-neutrality protections in a blow to supporters of the Obama-era policy. But not everything in the ruling went in the FCC’s favor. Consumer advocacy groups, including Mozilla, Free Press, Public Knowledge, and the…

Posted on October 1, 2019October 2, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Wired: A Court Says Repealing Net Neutrality Was (Mostly) OK

A federal appeals court Tuesday upheld most of the Federal Communications Commission's 2017 decision to jettison Obama-era net neutrality rules, at least for now. But the court said the FCC overstepped its authority in banning states from enforcing their own net neutrality regulations. The mixed decision is the latest twist in the long battle…

Posted on October 1, 2019October 2, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Vice Motherboard: Study Proves The FCC’s Core Justification for Killing Net Neutrality Was False.

A new study has found the FCC’s primary justification for repealing net neutrality was indisputably false. For years, big ISPs and FCC Chairman Ajit Pai have told anyone who’d listen that the FCC’s net neutrality rules, passed in 2015 and repealed last year in a flurry of controversy and alleged fraud, dramatically stifled…

Posted on September 27, 2019September 30, 2019 by Kip Roderick

Speaking

“Moving backwards: consolidation, deregulation & lack of accountability in the US media and broadband industries.”

Gigi Sohn Prepared Remarks to Centro De Investigación y Docencia Económicas, A.C. "Competencia en Telecommunications y Radiodifusión: Disrupción Technológica y Neutralidad de Redes." Mexico City, Mexico. Gracias Alexander, buenos días a todos. Me siento honrado de estar aquí. Today I’m going to talk about an issue I’ve worked on for…

Posted on September 23, 2019September 23, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Tech Dirt: Much Of The Assult on ‘Big Tech’ Is Being Driven By ‘Big Telecom’

Over the last few months, Google, Amazon, and Apple have all taken a significant beating on Wall Street amidst rumblings of looming antitrust investigations by the DOJ and FTC. Google, we're told, is subject of a looming antitrust probe by the DOJ. Amazon, we've learned, is facing growing scrutiny from the FTC. Apple stock…

Posted on September 10, 2019September 10, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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The Hollywood Reporter: The Netflix Lobbying Machine: Inside the Effort to Sway Policy Worldwide

Rather than align itself with the tech giants under increasing Washington pressure, the streamer has joined forces with the studios and redirected resources where it most needs growth - outside the U.S. Netflix has been evolving its public policy strategies in recent months to align itself more with Hollywood and…

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