Gomez serves as a senior advisor for international information and communications policy in the State Department’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy. She also served as the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Deputy Administrator from 2009 to 2013. She served as counselor to Obama-era FCC chairman Tom Wheeler when the commission voted to reclassify broadband service, something that gave the agency more oversight over the way that internet providers controlled the flow of traffic on their networks. Sohn has been a consumer advocate who in the past has been at odds with Murdoch on issues like media ownership, while she has been a champion of a robust set of net neutrality rules.
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Telecom lobbyists and dark money groups waged a campaign against her, while commentators and editorial writers at Rupert Murdoch-owned media outlets, including Fox News, the New York Post and The Wall Street Journal, railed against her, in a number of cases distorting her record on issues like free speech.
The FCC has been deadlocked 2-2, something that has prevented the agency from taking up more contentious issues like net neutrality rules, which were rolled back during the Republican majority of President Donald Trump’s administration.īiden’s previous nominee for the FCC, Gigi Sohn, withdrew her nomination in March after more than a year of a contentious confirmation process. Biden Derides GOP Impeachment Efforts: "They Want To Shut Down The Government"
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