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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,…

Daily Dot: Either way, 2020 could end the net neutrality fight forever


Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president, then-Federal Communications Commission (FCC) member Ajit Pai took aim at dismantling net neutrality rules—setting in motion a battle that would run throughout the next three-and-a-half years. That’s not to say that Pai waved a wand and killed off net neutrality. Since the controversial repeal, there have been court battles, legal decisions, activism, and attempts…

Trump FCC again puts industry interests over those of public safety, low-income Americans


This morning the FCC majority will approve an order that purports to address the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's remand in Mozilla v. FCC. The court ordered the FCC to address the impact of its Restoring Internet Freedom Order and specifically the Order’s reclassification of broadband Internet access service as an…