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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The FCC commissioner and broadband providers are pretending that the California Net Neutrality law is jeopardizing veterans’ access to health care.
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During a new COVID surge and amid trauma from environmental disasters and police violence, the Trump FCC is giving away its power to get and keep people connected.
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Spoiler alert: Your wireless prices are going to go up.
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The Trump administration is recommending a veto of the Save the Internet Act if that bill reaches the president's desk. And the decision is based on faulty data.
News
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One Texas lawmaker is so against abortion he'd like telecom companies, cable providers and other ISPs to help keep the state's residents from even reading about it.
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Without the paired protections in Section 230, we’d risk losing moderation and risk chilling expression too.
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“Section 230 empowers platforms to moderate while giving them protection against liability in the first instance for what their users say,” said Free Press VP Matt Wood. “We have to get this balance right.”
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Sohn, who for more than 30 years has championed the public interest, has faced a phalanx of opposition from powerful media and telecommunications firms seeking to deadlock the FCC at 2–2.
From the Policy Library
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Free Press supports the FCC’s decision to bar digital discrimination whether it is intentional or simply due to broader structural factors.
FCC Filing & Correspondence
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In these comments, Free Press urges the FTC to prohibit data brokers and other commercial entities from abusing people’s online privacy rights.
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In these comments, Free Press outlines specific steps for the agency to take to ensure that millions more people can connect to affordable internet.
FCC Filing & Correspondence
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In these comments, Free Press offers guidance to the FCC on how to implement the infrastructure bill’s $14.2-billion Affordable Connectivity Program.
FCC Filing & Correspondence
