Gigi Sohn is an attorney and public advocate. She’s served on the FCC in the past and when she was nominated to the FCC by the Biden Administration many of us were thrilled. She’s been a leader, especially when it comes to issues like Net Neutrality, for many years.
A right-wing smear campaign followed her nomination, and after three hearings, each more absurd than the last, she had to withdraw her nomination.
The smears were at worst cruel and homophobic, at best just straight up false. They made her out to be some radical leftist which, while it’d be no problem if she was, that’s just objectively not true. My personal politics are to the left of Gigi Sohn but it isn’t really all that relevant. If anything, it speaks to how good of a candidate she was because she had support from all across the political spectrum. It’s tragic she’s not currently at the FCC, the good news though, she has a new project that dare I say is pretty exciting.
Great get, Ron! Already listened to bits and pieces and it's a great discussion so far. Thanks for your persistence on the net neutrality and broadband issues in particular.