Are Flock safety cameras keeping communities safe, or just building a private dragnet for mass surveillance? Chris sits down with independent reporter Daniel Boguslaw to...
What Vermont is getting right — and why Google’s AI search changes feel different
A conversation about digital equity, dark money, and the fight over Internet access
A conversation about competition, mergers, and how to make sure the lowest-income households have access to an Internet connection
Communities can assert their power against the big tech monopolies driving the harmful expansion of massive data centers.
A conversation about AI policy, emergent systems, distributed knowledge, and why the things that are easiest to measure “might not be the right things to...
BEAD delays, LEO satellites, permitting, affordability, and why mobile networks may be getting worse
Three ILSR staffers talked to Liberation in a Generation and The Forge about the many dimensions of fighting corporate power — and building local power.
Online price swings may look like fierce competition. In reality, they’re part of an invisible strategy Amazon uses to maintain its dominance of e-commerce and...
A conversation about how we organize networks—and who they serve
An important conversation around what happened when federal agents came to Minnesota—and how communities responded
A deep dive into one of the most successful municipal fiber networks in the country—and what other communities can learn from it
Blair Levin returns to reflect on the decisions that built today’s Internet—and why we may not be ready for what comes next with AI
Unbuffered is here. Chris Mitchell introduces a new chapter that builds on Community Broadband Bits while expanding the conversation around power and local control
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