Timothy Karr
Timothy Karr is the senior director of strategy for Free Press, the advocacy organization that fights for everyone’s rights to connect and communicate. Follow him on Twitter: @TimKarr.
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Views Monday, June 11, 2018 Net Neutrality Can Still Be Saved A future without net neutrality is here. Well, almost. The Federal Communications Commission will take away the rights of internet users on Monday. Officially, the repeal of the 2015 net neutrality protections ― a repeal that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, a Trump pick, had pushed for ― will take effect... Read more |
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Views Thursday, February 15, 2018 Net Neutrality Politics Is Local O’Neill is less known for another saying that also holds true: “You can’t assume anything in politics. That’s why every Saturday I walk around my district.” It’s easy for cloistered Washington politicos to assume that Net Neutrality is dead, undone in December by the Trump FCC and its Verizon-... Read more |
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Views Friday, January 05, 2018 Trump's Appalling Record on Internet Freedom at Home Makes Him a Weak Champion of Rights Overseas But it’s another story when it comes to defending online rights in the United States. On Tuesday, Under Secretary of State Steve Goldstein told the Iranian government to stop blocking social-media sites being used to help organize protests across the country. Goldstein also encouraged Iranians to... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 16, 2017 Trump's Secret Weapon Against a Free Press Journalists in Manila had very little time to cover Monday’s meeting between President Donald Trump and his Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte. But it was enough to witness one aspect of the budding bromance between these two world leaders. "While Trump is attacking reporters on the front lines... Read more |
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Views Saturday, April 08, 2017 Trump's FCC and FTC Chairs Rush in to Defend Big Telco's Assault on Internet Privacy It’s hard to defend legislation that undermines internet users’ essential privacy rights. But that hasn’t stopped the broadband industry and its many friends in Washington from trying. Even amid widespread bipartisan outrage against the congressional resolution Trump signed this week — which rolled... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 12, 2017 Fighting for Techdirt and All Independent Media Anyone who’s followed Techdirt’s reporting and analysis over the years knows how vital this news outlet has been when it comes to clearing the fog that often clouds policy debates about Net Neutrality, broadband access, spectrum allocation, copyright reform and media ownership. Founder Mike Masnick... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, February 24, 2016 Journalists Should Stand Up for Whistleblowers The Obama administration’s ongoing crusade against government whistleblowers — which culminated last year in the imprisonment of former CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling — has reignited a debate over the role journalists should play in defending their profession and the sources and networks on which it... Read more |
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Views Monday, December 28, 2015 For Internet Users, 2015 Was a Year of Many Wins... and One Loss While not every fight ended in a win for Internet users, 2015 was a year when millions of advocates defied the conventional wisdom that tech policymaking was an arcane and secretive world limited to a small circle of insiders. We organized online and off, sending millions of comments in support of... Read more |
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Views Tuesday, October 27, 2015 Congress’ Alternate Reality on Net Neutrality The hearing, deceptively titled “ Common Carrier Regulation of the Internet: Investment Impacts ,” is another misguided opportunity for members of the House, including Subcommittee Chairman Greg Walden (R-Oregon), to repeat unsubstantiated claims about the supposed economic harms of the FCC’s open... Read more |
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Views Sunday, September 06, 2015 Big Phone and Cable’s Summer Hack-a-thon In the last few weeks at least five anti-Net Neutrality Op-Eds have appeared in newspapers around the country. These pieces strike suspiciously familiar notes — and in some cases use identical language. All of this begs the obvious question: Did the phone and cable lobby orchestrate this wave of... Read more |