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,…

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Gigi Sohn Statement on Tomorrow’s DC Circuit Oral Argument in Mozilla v. FCC

Tomorrow morning, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit will hear oral argument in Mozilla v. FCC, the challenge to the Trump FCC's 2017 repeal of the 2015 Open Internet Order. The following statement should be attributed to Gigi Sohn: "Tomorrow, the Internet gets its day…

Posted on January 31, 2019January 31, 2019 by Gigi Sohn

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Vice Motherboard: It’s Now Clear None of the Supposed Benefits of Killing Net Neutrality Are Real.

In the months leading up to the FCC assault on net neutrality, big telecom and FCC boss Ajit Pai told anybody who’d listen that killing net neutrality would boost broadband industry investment, spark job creation, and drive broadband into underserved areas at an unprecedented rate.As it turns out, none of those promises…

Posted on January 24, 2019January 24, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Vice Motherboard: We Could Easily Stop Location Data Scandals, But We Cower to Lobbyists Instead.

Your daily habits are collected, sold and abused by a universe of shady middlemen - and the government couldn't care less. If you hadn’t noticed by now, the United States is much like the wild west when in comes to consumer privacy. Outside of a law protecting minors (COPPA), the…

Posted on January 10, 2019January 14, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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NBC News: For sale, your location: Revelations about data sales spur renewed calls for regulation.

Recent revelations about companies that traffic in personal location data — and how easy that information can be acquired for a few hundred dollars — have led to renewed calls for the regulation of the collection and sale of such data. The calls come after reports from The New York Times and Vice's…

Posted on January 9, 2019January 14, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Vice Motherboard: FCC Shuts Down, Ajit Pai Jokes He’ll Still Police Naughty Language on TV.

The FCC suspended most operations on Thursday afternoon as a result of the ongoing government shutdown over a dumb fence many argue creates far more problems than it solves. The resulting shutdown has left 800,000 government employees furloughed without pay, while garbage and human waste begin to pile up at the nation’s staff-depleted national park…

Posted on January 4, 2019January 14, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Wired: The FCC is Closing, So Hold your Cell Phone Service Gripes.

You can add the Federal Communications Commission to the list of government shutdown casualties: The agency will shutter most of its operations on Thursday. Its outage-reporting system will remain online, so you can still let the FCC know if your local 911 service goes down. But if you run into billing or…

Posted on January 2, 2019January 14, 2019 by Kip Roderick

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Bloomberg TV: How the US Gov’t Shutdown May Slow the FCC’s Agenda

Former Federal Communications Commission counselor Gigi Sohn discusses how operations at the agency could halt if there’s a funding lapse because of a partial government shutdown. She speaks with Bloomberg's Emily Chang on "Bloomberg Technology." More at Bloomberg TV.

Posted on January 2, 2019January 13, 2019 by Gigi Sohn

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Verge: How the new AT&T could bully its way to streaming domination

AT&T plans to launch its own streaming service in 2019, drawing on content from DC Comics and Harry Potter that was acquired as part of the recent Time Warner deal. But telecommunication companies have a unique advantage: they control the content and the networks that content travels over, presenting a wonderful…

Posted on December 19, 2018January 13, 2019 by Gigi Sohn

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The Hill: Former FCC counselor says Dems will use oversight on net neutrality.

A former counselor to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman under former President Obama said in an interview that aired Thursday on "Rising" that the new Democratic-majority House will probe the handling of net neutrality by the Trump administration. She noted that Democrats are “angry” with the FCC repealing the rules that protected…

Posted on December 17, 2018January 13, 2019 by Gigi Sohn

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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…

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