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Jon Brodkin

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129 articles stable

A June 2025 Frontier piracy settlement caps coverage centered on broadband regulation, ISP conduct, and consumer access.

Who they are

Jon Brodkin appears in this corpus as a person closely associated with reporting and analysis of the US broadband and telecom sector, especially FCC policy, internet-service providers, and the consumer consequences of network and legal disputes. Ars Technica is a recurring outlet in that coverage, while FCC, AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, T-Mobile, Netflix, and Amazon recur as the institutions and companies around which the stories turn.

The recent arc

Recent coverage has been intermittent rather than steadily rising, with small peaks in 2023 Q1, 2024 Q1, and 2024 Q3, after the larger historical high in 2015 Q1. The latest cluster shifts from broad net-neutrality-era fights toward the practical rules governing affordability, liability, and access: the FCC’s planned shutdown of the Affordable Connectivity Program, the Supreme Court leaving New York’s low-income ISP-price law intact, and Frontier’s June 2025 settlement of record-label litigation over alleged piracy by broadband users.

The tension

The central tension is between ISP business and legal interests and public-policy efforts to constrain how broadband providers treat customers and online services. Earlier coverage connected AT&T and Verizon to Netflix throttling and net-neutrality conflict; newer stories connect Frontier and other ISPs to subscriber disconnection demands and affordable-service mandates, with the FCC and courts as key venues for resolving those conflicts.

Why it matters

If this trajectory holds, broadband policy coverage will remain consequential not only for network competition but for whether low-income households can afford service and how far providers must go in policing users’ alleged infringement. The Frontier settlement and unresolved Cox-related Supreme Court question show that liability rules could reshape provider obligations, while affordability policy remains vulnerable to regulatory and judicial decisions.

Jon Brodkin has appeared in 129 articles since 2014-12. Coverage peaked in 2021Q2 with 4 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside FCC, AT&T, Comcast, Verizon.

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Coverage Timeline

2025-06-03
Ars Technica 3 related

ISP Frontier Communications settles a lawsuit from record labels that demanded dropping broadband users accused of piracy; SCOTUS may hear a similar Cox case

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :

2024-12-18
Ars Technica 4 related

SCOTUS rejects ISPs' challenge to a New York law requiring ISPs to offer $15 or $20/month services to low-income users by not revisiting a lower court ruling

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :

2024-09-20
Bloomberg 24 related

Brazil's Supreme Court orders X to reimpose a block or face a ~$920K daily fine after an update made X accessible; X says service restoration was “inadvertent”

Usually when we talk about ban evasion, we're referring … Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica : Cloudflare helps Brazil block Elon Musk's X after platform briefly evaded ban Tiago Rogero / The Guardian : Brazi...

2024-06-25
Financial Times 69 related

In preliminary findings, the EU says Apple's anti-steering developer rules breach the DMA; the EU is also probing if Apple's developer fees comply with EU rules

After the news broke yesterday - on a Friday afternoon, no less … Oscar Gonzalez / Gizmodo : Apple Could Be Fined $30 Billion for Violating Competition Laws Livia Giannotti / Tech Monitor : EU finds A...

2024-03-22
Six Colors 12 related

A look at the US DOJ's case against Apple, which has some strong points but also makes silly arguments, like Apple affecting “the flow of speech” via Apple TV+

DOJ lawsuit against Apple slammed over bizarre history of iPod success Kristijan Lucic / Android Headlines : The DOJ lawsuit “threatens who we are”, Apple says Berto Tordecilla / Investomania : Apple ...

2021-10-08
Ars Technica 3 related

US federal judge rules Cloudflare is not liable for copyright infringement between websites that use its services

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :

2021-06-13
Ars Technica 4 related

Federal judge grants a preliminary injunction that prohibits New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income families

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :

2021-06-12
Ars Technica 4 related

Federal judge grants a preliminary injunction that prohibits New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income families

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :

2021-04-13
Ars Technica

Court orders Charter to pay $19.2M to Windstream for lying to customers that Windstream was going out of business in order to trick them into switching ISPs

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :

2020-10-22
Ars Technica 2 related

FCC's top lawyer defends its authority to interpret Section 230, saying 1996 legislation that included Section 230 amended a 1934 act that created the FCC

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica :

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