| “FCC Action: Necessary Or The “9/11 For The Internet”? Experts Debate (Video)”, Techcrunch, May 5, 2010. With the FCC’s announcement to exercise its nuclear option on broadband regulation, Larry joined leading experts on Techcrunch TV to talk about what might happen next. See also Techdirt’s commentary on the program, and a review from The Atlantic. |
Monthly Archives: June 2010
Examiner/Facebook privacy breach
| “Bug brings Facebook chat down”, The Examiner, May 5, 2010. Larry talks with The Examiner on the growing frustration over Facebook’s approach to user privacy, and the potential for federal intervention. |
Reason/Title II
| “Saving the Internet from the FCC”, Reason, April 28, 2010. Reason’s Peter Suderman quotes extensively from Larry in his critique of the FCC’s plan to regulate broadband Internet access. |
El Pais/Net Neutrality
| “¿Quién manda en Internet?”, El Pais, April 22, 2010. Larry was interviewed for El Pais, Madrid’s largest-circulation daily newspaper, on net neutrality and the controversy over the FCC’s move to regulate broadband. |
CATO/Title II
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“Larry Downes on Internet ‘Reclassification'”, The Cato Institute, April 20, 2010. The Cato Institute’s Jim Harper reviews Larry’s articles and posts on the the Title II controversy. |
CNET/Reclassification
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“Reality check on ‘reclassifying’ broadband”, CNN, April 19, 2010. Larry’s provocative article on the legal realities of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski’s plan to ‘reclassify’ broadband Internet to salvage proposed net neutrality rules–the nuclear option. See also commentary on the article from Mike Wendy’s Polisonic Blog. |


