Academic Writing

How to Strengthen the Open Internet NPRM by Closing Loopholes and Matching the 2015 Open Internet Protections

Author(s): 
Barbara van Schewick
Publication Date: 
March 12, 2024
Publication Type: 
Other Writing
When the FCC announced it would be restoring the net neutrality protections that the FCC eliminated in 2017, the agency said it wanted to restore the 2015 net neutrality protections.  
 
I strongly support this goal, and the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking includes many of the protections included in the 2015 Open Internet Order. 
 
But the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking misses some critical protections in the 2015 Order, creating potential loopholes for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to exploit. 

Open Floor to Barbara van Schewick: Net Neutrality in the United States

Author(s): 
Barbara van Schewick
Publication Date: 
July 4, 2023
Publication Type: 
Other Writing

Contribution to ARCEP's 2023 State of the Internet Report. You can read the press release (English), full report (French, pdf, van Schewick contribution on p. 48), and the complete section on Guaranteeing Net Neutrality (English, pdf, van Schewick contribution on p. 4) here. Read more about Open Floor to Barbara van Schewick: Net Neutrality in the United States

Setting the Record Straight: Carriers Can Help Veterans and Comply with California’s Net Neutrality Law

Author(s): 
Barbara van Schewick
Publication Date: 
March 25, 2021
Publication Type: 
Other Writing
On Wednesday, Politico reported on a leaked email from the Department of Veterans Affairs, expressing concern that California’s net neutrality law could force some wireless providers to end a program that exempted the V.A.’s telehealth app from their customers’ data caps.
 
Veterans across the country and in California shouldn’t have to worry they’ll go over their data caps by talking to their doctor or mental health provider online. In fact, no American or Californian should.
 
But California’s net neutrality law is not the problem here.

Banning Trump from Twitter and Facebook isn’t nearly enough

Author(s): 
Ryan Calo
Woodrow Hartzog
Publication Date: 
January 15, 2021
Publication Type: 
Other Writing

Social media finally pulled the plug on Donald Trump. Days after Trump incited a riot at the U.S. Capitol, Twitter permanently banned the president from its platform, and many other social media companies like Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat suspended Trump’s accounts as well.

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The FTC Zoom Case: Does the FTC Need a New Approach?

Author(s): 
Woodrow Hartzog
Publication Date: 
November 10, 2020
Publication Type: 
Other Writing

It was inevitable. On Monday, Zoom joined an exclusive club of tech companies – Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Microsoft, Google, Uber, Snap, and more. This club involves companies that have been under a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) consent decree. In a weird sense, for tech companies, being enforced against by the FTC for a privacy or security violation has become an initiation ritual to being recognized in the pantheon of the tech company big leagues. Read more about The FTC Zoom Case: Does the FTC Need a New Approach?

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