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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Free Press and its allies are defending the FCC’s Net Neutrality rules and broadband authority in federal court. Here’s where the case stands now.
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As calls to end Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act pick up steam, it’s worth noting the many reasons we need this essential internet law.
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Some academics and advocates have suggested that the proposed rules are weaker than the Obama-era ones that the Trump FCC ditched. This is a false alarm.
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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.
News
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Three of these complaints were politicized efforts designed to curtail freedom of the press and punish media outlets that displease Donald Trump.
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Trump’s picks to lead agencies like the FCC and FTC may censor speech and make the internet less free.
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Corporate-friendly judges have overturned Net Neutrality, and Trump’s FCC will only make things worse.
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The ruling will let the Trump administration abdicate its responsibility to protect internet users against unscrupulous business practices.
From the Policy Library
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Free Press urges the FCC to take action against internet service providers that use data caps in an unjust or unreasonable action.
FCC Filing & Correspondence
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Free Press and other public-interest groups intervened to defend the 2024 Net Neutrality and Title II rules against an industry challenge.
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This proceeding would ensure that survivors of domestic and sexual violence have reliable, safe and affordable access to vital communications infrastructure.
FCC Filing & Correspondence
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The agency’s draft Net Neutrality order is a stable yet flexible path toward restoring internet freedom.
FCC Filing & Correspondence
