As this article notes, the lack of access to broadband is not just a rural problem In Senator Warren’s hometown of Cambridge Mass, while virtually every high income household has a broadband subscription, only 50% of the low income households do. Those of us who can afford it are getting gouged for second rate service from the monopoly provider…

If We Want A Free And Open Internet, We Should Build One

This week, the FCC, as expected, voted to end net neutrality. This comes on the heels of a Republican Congress repealing…

Surveillance without oversight in Cambridge

Why Chelsea Manning’s Fellowship Was Withdrawn

When Harvard’s Kennedy School withdrew the fellowship it had offered to Chelsea Manning, it wasn’t because the CIA Director cancelled a speech. Instead, a Manning fellowship struck…

The first time I was tear gassed I was an innocent bystander.