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6:52 am on November 12, 2025 · fcc (92), FTC (8), gigi sohn (7), harold feld (6), public knowledge (8)

WEBCAST NOV 12 – The People’s Oversight Hearing

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ISOC LIVE

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On Wednesday November 12, 2025, Public Knowledge convenes ‘The People’s Oversight Hearing‘ in Washington DC. For the first 10 months of this Congress, there have been zero full oversight hearings for the Federal Trade Commission – FTC, Federal Communications Commission – FCC, and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – CFPB, making them less accountable and less effective, and leaving consumers, workers, and communities vulnerable. This civil society-hosted hearing will shine light on regulatory failures, and Congress’s abdication of its oversight responsibility.

AGENDA (EST = UTC-5)

09:00 Opening Remarks
Chris Lewis – President and CEO, Public Knowledge

09:15 Federal Communications Commission Hearing
Witnesses
Tom Wheeler – former FCC Chairman
Gigi Sohn – Benton Institute / AAPB
Bob Corn-Revere – FIRE
Questioners
Joey Wender – SHLB
Berin Szóka – TechFreedom
Matt Wood – Free Press
Harold Feld – Public Knowledge
Raza Panjwani – New America’s Open Technology Institute
Ceilidh Gao – Communications Workers of America
Lauren Harper – Free Press Foundation

11:00 Federal Trade Commission Hearing
Witnesses
Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter – FTC
Bilaal Sayyed – TechFreedom
Questioners
Lisa Hone
Anna Lenhart
Eric Null – Center for Democracy and Technology
John Davisson – EPIC
Shae Gardner – LGBT Tech
Frank Torres – Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights
David Brody

12:30 Lunch

13:30 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Hearing
Witnesses
Erie Meyer – Institute for Technology Law & Policy
Christine Zinner – Alliance for Justice
Jennifer Zhang – Protect Borrowers
Gracie Bouwer – Fair Share America
Questioners
Chi Chi Wu – NCLC
Erin Witte – CFA
Bart Naylor – Public Citizen

15:00 Closing Remarks
Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA)

#PeoplesOversight #Accountability #FCC #FTC #CFPB #PublicInterest #TechPolicy #ConsumerProtection @publicknowledge @FCC @FTC @CFPB @EPICprivacy @TechFreedom @freepress @FreedomofPress

1:57 am on April 30, 2024 · ACP (2), Broadband Breakfast (5), fcc (92), NDIA (4), public knowledge (8)

WEBCAST APR 30 – Affordable Connectivity Program Day of Action

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ISOC LIVE

ISOC LIVEOn Tuesday April 30 2024, at 11:30-13:00 EDT (15:30-17:00 UTC) Public Knowledge, Civic Nation, National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC), National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA), and the Digital Progress Institute (DPI) will hold an Affordable Connectivity Program Day of Action Rally in Washington DC. This event is prompted by the imminent expiry of the funding for the 2021 federal program that subsidizes high-speed Internet connectivity for around 23 million USA households. The aim is to secure short term funding to sustain the program while Congress works out a long term solution.

OPENING REMARKS
Chris Lewis, President and CEO of Public Knowledge
KEYNOTE REMARKS
Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY)
FCC Commissioner Anna M. Gomez
FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks
LIGHTNING PANEL
Amina Fazlullah, Head of Tech Policy Advocacy, Common Sense Media
Taylor Abshire, Student, Catholic University Law School
MODERATOR
Alisa Valentin, Ph.D., Broadband Policy Director at Public Knowledge
CLOSING REMARKS
Sen. Peter Welch (D-VT)

The rally will be webcast live by Broadband Breakfast.

VIEW ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/YnfR6CPGLUU

REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/44ny52M

TWITTER #ACP #saveACP @publicknowledge @netinclusion @BroadbandCensus @CivicNation @NHMC @DigitalProInst @RepYvetteClarke @SenPeterWelch @AGomezFCC @GeoffreyStarks @FCC

MASTODON #saveACP

2:15 pm on January 18, 2022 · internet freedom (81), public knowledge (8), SOPA (14)

WEBCAST JAN 18: How Public Interest Values Shape A Better Internet

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livestream

livestreamOn Tuesday 18 January 2022 at 2pm-3pm EST (19:00-20:00 UTC) Public Knowledge hosts a discussion ‘How Public Interest Values Shape A Better Internet‘. This month marks the anniversary of a series of coordinated protests that led to the withdrawal of two proposed laws in the United States Congress: the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). The panel will consider how public interest values have shaped the internet so far, how the internet has changed since the 2012 blackouts, and how the public interest community must ensure they continue building a better internet for everyone.

PANEL
Catherine Stihler, CEO of Creative Commons
Spencer Overton, President, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
April Glaser, Fellow of the Technology & Social Change Project
Akriti Gaur, Resident Fellow, Yale Information Society Project

HOST / MODERATOR
Chris Lewis, President and CEO, Public Knowledge

This event will be simulcast via a partnership with the Internet Society Washington DC Chapter

LIVESTREAM http://livestream.com/internetsociety/SOPAPlus10

PARTICIPATE VIA ZOOM https://publicknowledge.org/BetterInternet

REAL TIME TEXT https://bit.ly/3tABmLJ

TWITTER #BetterInternet #SOPAPlus10 @publicknowledge @C_Stihler @SpencerOverton @aprilaser @akritigaur @ChrisJ_Lewis @isocdc

SIMULCASTS
https://www.twitter.com/ISOC_Live/
https://www.twitch.tv/isoclive
https://www.facebook.com/liveisoc/ (AI Captions)

ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/SOPAPlus10

8:14 am on January 15, 2019 · aaf (1), blair levin (9), fcc (92), harold feld (6), next century cities (16), public knowledge (8)

WEBCAST TODAY: Opportunities for BipartisanTech Policy ‏

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livestream

livestreamToday, Tuesday January 15 2019, from 9am-1:30pm ET (14:00-18:30 UTC) Next Century Cities, Public Knowledge, and the American Action Forum, will host Opportunities for Bipartisan Tech Policy – a half day event bringing together members of Congress, community leaders, and policy experts. Keynote conversations and panel discussions will work to determine key policy goals and action steps for the new Congress, with a specific focus on rural broadband and digital privacy legislation. Speakers include FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, Blair Levin of Brookings, Harold Feld of Public Knowledge, Will Rinehart of AAF, and Michael Calabrese of New America. The event will be webcast via ISOC.LIVE with AI captions.

VIEW ON YOUTUBE: https://youtu.be/rbHSCHYWjC4

VIEW ON LIVESTREAM: https://livestream.com/internetsociety/bipartisantech

AGENDA: https://nextcenturycities.org/wp-content/uploads/Bipartisan-Tech-Agenda.pdf

TWITTER #bipartisantech 

3:02 pm on April 17, 2017 · fcc (92), FTC (8), New America (14), privacy (69), public knowledge (8)

WEBCAST TODAY: The Future of #BroadbandPrivacy and the #OpenInternet—Who Will Protect Consumers? @OTI @publicknowledge @NewAmerica

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Open Technology InstituteToday, Monday April 17 2017 at 3pm EDT (19:00 UTC) the Open Technology Institute and Public Knowledge will host The Future of Broadband Privacy and the Open Internet—Who Will Protect Consumers?, which will discuss the recent Congressional repeal of the FCC’s ISP privacy rules. Speakers: Terrell McSweeny, Commissioner, Federal Trade Commission- @TMcSweenyFTC; Laura Moy, Deputy Director, Georgetown Center for Privacy and Technology – @lauramoy; Tom Struble, Policy Counsel, Tech Freedom – @tstruble. Moderator: Sarah Morris, Director of Open Internet Policy, Open Technology Institute – @sarmorris. The event will be webcast live on the New America YouTube Channel.

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/vR1ltcwByDM
Twitter: #broadbandprivacy

5:13 pm on February 24, 2016 · broadband (121), CDT (14), oti (20), privacy (69), public knowledge (8)

VIDEO: Preserving #Broadband Network #Privacy @publicknowledge @oti @cdt

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On February 17 2016, Public Knowledge and the Open Technology Institute at New America hosted a discussion panel Preserving Broadband Network Privacy in Washington DC. For decades, consumers have been protected by privacy rules at the FCC that protected them from the one company with access to all of their communications: their phone company. When the FCC reclassified broadband as a Title II common carrier service, it gave forbearance to these phone network privacy rules when it came to broadband. And yet, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler has expressed interest in beginning work on creating appropriate privacy rules for broadband, the essential communications network of this century. Are such rules needed and what would the look like? What is special about broadband networks that the FCC needs to take action to ensure privacy over them? How does network privacy fit into the broader landscape of privacy policy? Panelists: Harold Feld, Public Knowledge; Sarah Morris, Open Technology Institute at New America; Erik Stallman, Center for Democracy & Technology; Mary Sisak, Alarm Industry Communications Committee. Moderator: Chris Lewis, Public Knowledge. Video is below.

View on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ImhZzDOkl80
PK: Protecting Privacy, Promoting Competition
OTI: The FCC’s Role in Protecting Online Privacy
CDT: Applying Communications Act Consumer Privacy Protections to Broadband

2:23 pm on April 24, 2013 · broadband (121), competition (5), Dave Burstein (4), isoc-dc (75), itif (9), policy (40), public knowledge (8), spectrum (25), webcast (110)

WEBCAST FRI AM: Bandwidth for the Buck: The State of #Broadband Access & Competition in the US @isocdc @itifdc

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ISOC-DC

ISOC-DCOn Friday April 26 2013 the Internet Society’s Washington DC Chapter (ISOC-DC) for its April Happy Hour will join with the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) to present a breakfast discussion: Bandwidth for the Buck: The State of Broadband Access & Competition in the US. A panel of distinguished experts, moderated by ISOC-NY board member Dave Burstein, will address such questions as:

  • What is the state of broadband competition in the US?
  • Do American consumers really pay more for slower speeds?
  • What is the best way to get to universal access?
  • What objectives should national broadband policy try to achieve?

The event will be webcast live via the Internet Society livestream channel. No live captions.

What: Bandwidth for the Buck: The State of Broadband Access & Competition in the US
Where: ITIF, Washington DC
When: Friday April 26 2013 9am-11am EDT | 1300-1500 UTC
Webcast: http://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/dc-broadband
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/151596038350336/
Twitter: #broadband | @isocdc | @itifdc
Speakers:
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. – President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Jeffrey A. Eisenach,Ph.D. – Managing Director, Navigant Economics, Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Jodie Griffin – Staff Attorney, Public Knowledge
Robert C. Atkinson – Director of Policy Research, CITI
Moderator: Dave Burstein, Editor, DSL Prime

12:26 am on March 16, 2011 · at&t (5), fcc (92), free press (4), open internet (25), public knowledge (8), spectrum (25)

Open Net advocates petition FCC to kill Qualcomm AT&T spectrum deal #broadband #fcc

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Open Internet advocates Free Press, Public Knowledge, Media Access Project, Consumers Union, and the New America Foundation have jointly petitioned the FCC that the proposed transfer of spectrum from Qualcomm to AT&T is not in the public interest and should be scuppered. The group recommend that, instead, the spectrum be made available to the public on an unlicensed basis.