Matt helps shape our policy team’s efforts to protect the open internet, prevent media concentration, promote affordable broadband deployment and safeguard press freedom. He’s served as an expert witness before Congress on multiple occasions. Before joining Free Press, he worked at the public interest law firm Media Access Project and in the communications practice groups of two private law firms in Washington, D.C. Before that, he served as editor-in-chief for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, worked for PBS, and spent time at several professional and college radio and television stations. Matt earned his B.A. in film studies from Columbia University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. Matt likes watching sports, riding his bicycle and talking about philosophy — just not all at the same time.
Expert Analysis
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This deal would harm people of color and all communities and constituencies that rely on having more affordable and open wireless options.
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There have been loads of press reports all falsely claiming that today, April 23, is the day that Ajit Pai’s Net Neutrality repeal takes effect.
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We’re taking the FCC to court to restore the Net Neutrality rules. Here’s what that process will look like.
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Congress has the power to overturn the FCC’s bad Net Neutrality decision. Here’s a quick look at how that process would work.
News
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Internet defenders are calling "bullshit" on Republican lawmakers pushing "deceptive" legislation that would prevent strong regulation of telecom companies.
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WASHINGTON — Three Republican House representatives said they would introduce separate pieces of legislation they falsely claim would protect the open internet.
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The appeals-court judges today heard in full detail just how awful a job the Trump FCC did.
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Net Neutrality advocates had their eyes on a federal court where the showdown over the FCC’s repeal of the Obama-era open-internet protections continued.
From the Policy Library
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Free Press Action Fund Policy Director Matt Wood testified before the Special Committee on Net Neutrality and Consumer Protection.
