Tom Wheeler

A mobile phone user looks at the icons of the mobile apps of Alphabet Inc's Google on his smartphone in Beijing, China, 16 January 2018.Alphabet Inc's Google said on Tuesday (16 January 2018) it has made "no changes" to its mapping platform in China, denying an earlier media report that claimed it was re-launching the function in China, where many of its services are blocked. Japan's Nikkei reported earlier that Google had set up a China-specific version of the Google Maps website for the first time in eight years and introduced a map application for Chinese iPhones for the first time. Google, however, stated that the Google Maps browser has been available in China for many years while there is no Maps application offered in the country.No Use China. No Use France.

Big Tech and antitrust: Pay attention to the math behind the curtain

Friday, July 31, 2020

An aerial flypast takes place as U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend South Dakota's U.S. Independence Day Mount Rushmore fireworks celebrations at Mt. Rushmore in Keystone, South Dakota, U.S., July 3, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Donald Trump fakes history in order to divide us

Monday, July 6, 2020

Donald Trump walks through Lafeyette Square flanked by police

Could Donald Trump claim a national security threat to shut down the internet?

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Pablo Barajas (center) and Brandon Petersen, both with Cox Communications, install internet at the Phoenix home of Tyler and Alex Palmer (background) on April 15, 2020. Cox Communications installers have changed how they do their jobs and avoid entering customers' homes in almost all situations because of the new coronavirus pandemic. The Palmers moved into their home in mid-March and have been without internet since.Cable Internet Service Coronavirus Covid 19

COVID-19 has taught us the internet is critical and needs public interest oversight

Wednesday, April 29, 2020

US President Donald J. Trump calls on a reporter as he is joined by members of the Coronavirus Task Force, delivers remarks on the COVID-19 pandemic in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, 07 April 2020.

Wartime leadership then and now

Thursday, April 9, 2020

Ethernet cables used for internet connections are pictured in a Berlin office

Why the internet didn’t break

Thursday, April 2, 2020

A voter drops ballots for the March 3 Super Tuesday primary into a mobile voting mail box in Laguna Woods, California, U.S., February 24, 2020. Picture taken February 24, 2020. REUTERS/Mike Blake

Voting in a time of national emergency

Monday, March 23, 2020

Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at an event at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds in Davenport, Iowa, U.S. June 11, 2019. REUTERS/Jordan Gale - RC1849B52340

Coronavirus, campaigns, and connectivity

Thursday, March 12, 2020

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