Tom Wheeler

Moving from ‘secret sauce’ to open standards for 5G

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Supporters of Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) look at their mobile phones before she speaks at her Iowa Caucus rally in Des Moines, Iowa, U.S., February 3, 2020. Picture taken February 3, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Technology, tribalism, and truth

Friday, February 7, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks next to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Ajit Pai during an event on United States 5G deployment in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., April 12, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - RC19EF413F60

Going backwards in the ‘race for 5G’

Friday, December 20, 2019

Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg addresses the audience on "the challenges of protecting free speech while combating hate speech online, fighting misinformation, and political data privacy and security," at a forum hosted by Georgetown University's Institute of Politics and Public Service (GU Politics) and the McCourt School of Public Policy in Washington, U.S., October 17, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Jasso - RC1CB9578F30

Can social media ‘targetcasting’ and democracy coexist?

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

A businessman waits to cross a street in Tokyo April 4, 2011. Japanese big manufacturers expect conditions to worsen significantly in the next three months, responses to a Bank of Japan survey collected after the March 11 earthquake showed on Monday. REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao (JAPAN - Tags: EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS POLITICS) - GM1E7441E6E01

Putting corporate America’s new ‘stakeholder’ principles to work in regulatory policy

Friday, October 18, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks next to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Ajit Pai during an event on United States 5G deployment in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., April 12, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - RC19EF413F60

How the FCC lost a year in “the race to 5G”

Friday, June 14, 2019

Customers use the internet at a Starbucks in the financial district in New York City, U.S., December 14, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RC174920FF60

Internet capitalism pits fast technology against slow democracy

Monday, May 6, 2019

U.S. 2020 Democratic presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), speaks at the 2019 National Action Network National Convention in New York, U.S., April 5, 2019. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RC1EE3F6C660

Should big technology companies break up or break open?

Thursday, April 11, 2019

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook Inc's annual F8 developers conference in San Jose, California, U.S. May 1, 2018. REUTERS/Stephen Lam - HP1EE511CDLKZ

Mark Zuckerberg’s call for internet rules only goes part way

Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is seated prior to testifying before a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on foreign influence operations on social media platforms on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 5, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC1F1C782B50

The tragedy of tech companies: Getting the regulation they want

Tuesday, March 26, 2019