As ownership caps fall and mega-mergers unite giant media studios, what happens to the future of real journalism?
Are broadcast license threats being weaponized to silence free speech? Chris, Gigi Sohn, and Berin Szóka unpack Disney’s landmark lawsuit against the FCC.
In this episode of Unbuffered, Chris and Sean break down the flawed realities behind national broadband data and policy.
Chris and Doug Dawson break down new Ookla FWA data, critique the FCC’s flawed mapping challenges, examine the final BEAD funding numbers, and tackle the...
Can local governments build modern public safety infrastructure without sacrificing citizen privacy or handing millions to private cloud vendors?
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