About Berin Szoka
Berin Michael Szoka (LinkedIn) is a Fellow at The Progress & Freedom Foundation, where directs the Center for Internet Freedom.
Before joining PFF, he practiced communications, Internet and satellite law as an Associate in the Communications Practice Group at Latham & Watkins LLP. Previously, he practiced at Lawler Metzger, a boutique telecommunications law firm in Washington and clerked for the late Hon. H. Dale Cook, Senior U.S. District Judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma.
A recognized expert on the legal and regulatory issues associated with space commercialization, Berin is a member of the FAA's Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee (COMSTAC). He is also Chairman of the Board of the Space Frontier Foundation, a citizens' advocacy group founded in 1988 and dedicated to opening the space frontier by enabling "NewSpace."
He received his Bachelor's degree in economics from Duke University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Submissions Editor of the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology.Posts by Berin Szoka
- Three Cheers for Information Abundance!
- Twitter Goes Ad-Supported, Surprising No One
- Music as Technology, Innovation & Part of Human Evolution
- Alcohol Liberation Front 9: July 14 at Science Club
- Lori Drew Acquitted in Megan Meier Case: What to Do About Cyberbullying?
- New Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising
- Ad-Supported Internet: The Musical (Web Site Story)
- Facebook, Twitter, Online Identity Integration & the Future of Anonymity
- Great Summary of Section 230
- A Posterboy for Advertising’s Pro-Consumer Quid Pro Quo
- Facebook v. Google v. the Techno-Aquarians
- PFF Capitol Hill Briefing: Online Advertising Regulation (July 10)
- There is No Free Lunch! No Advertising, No Media
- Barbara Esbin: Exclusive Handset Deals Are Pro-Competitive
- Mike Palage: ICANN 3.0 Should “Refocus” on Original Purpose
- Behavioral Advertising Industry Practices Hearing: Some Issues that Need to be Discussed
- A Right to Anonymous Speech but Not a Right to Sue for Outing
- The Costs of SSL Encryption for Webmail & Other Cloud Services
- Hilarious DTV Transition Video
- First Amendment Protection of Search Algorithms as Editorial Discretion
- Video Game Photorealism within 10-15 Years
- COPPA 2.0: The New Battle over Privacy, Age Verification, Online Safety & Free Speech
- Google’s New Advertising Trademark Policy & Consumer Welfare
- The Lord’s Prayer of Internet Pessimist Orthodoxy
- Naked Pictures of Bea Arthur
- “Internet Openness: Net Neutrality and Beyond” Event in NYC, April 21
- The Pepsi Challenge 2.0, Reputational Incentives & Genericide as a Check on Google’s Brand Power
- What “Internet” Means to the Feds
- New Heights in Googlephobia: “A Delinquent, Sociopathic Parasite”?
- Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Computer
- GATTACA, Here We Come!
- ICANN’s Implementation Recommendation Team for New gTLDs: Safeguards Needed
- ICANN at a Crossroads: Please Choose Carefully
- Google, CDT, Online Advertising & Preserving Persistent User Choice Across Ad Networks Through Plug-ins
- Google’s Ad Preference Manager: One Small Step for Google, One Giant Leap for Privacy
- TPW 43: Public Access to Court Records
- Venture Capitalists Reject Bailout: An Inspiring Dose of Economic Sanity
- Classification, Secrecy & The Transformation of Journalism
- Copps: The “Public Interest” Requires Regulation of the Internet!
- Microsoft Licenses ActiveSync for Google Sync
- ICANN’s Revised gTLD Proposal Still Comes Up Short
- Other “Liberation Fronts”
- Technology Liberation: What’s It All About?
- Targeted Online Advertising: What’s the Harm & Where Are We Heading?
- The Future of Local TV & the Internet
- Google’s MeasurementLab.net Now Makes Network Management Transparent—So Why Mandate Net Neutrality?
- Cutting the (Video) Cord: YouTube Close to Deal for Pro Talent
- Transparency at the FCC
- A New Addition to the TLF: Adam Marcus
- Apple’s MultiTouch Patent
- TPW 40: Obama, e-Government & Transparency
- A Blanket License for Music Soon To Arrive?
- “Will Obama Have A Computer?” Seriously?
- Feedsqueezer: Another Competitor for Google
- Cutting the (Video) Cord: Who Needs a DVR When You’ve Got Hulu?
- Senator Cuomo & the Coming Assault on Internet Freedom
- Promoting & Upgrading the TLF
- The “GPS Tax,” e-Health & the Privacy Implications of Tech Upgrades for Government Monopolies
- Obama’s Inaugural Address & Technology Policy
- Search Advertising Dropped 8% in 2008: Why Users Should Care
- Cutting the (Video) Cord: Boxee
- Microsoft, Google, the Innovator’s Dilemma and the Future of Search & Web Ads
- Obama’s CTO: Fixing Government IT or Setting Nationwide Policy?
- ICANN’s Game of Chicken with the USG & The Need for Adult (GAO) Supervision
- Cellular Socialism
- Google’s Growing Advertiser Base
- Is the DTV Transition Dog About to Jump its Leash?
- The Right Way to Allow Cell Phone Jammers – And the FCC’s Way
- The Most Important Number for Technology Policy in 2009
- Cutting the (Video) Cord Part 3: The Growing Relevance of Internet TV
- IE’s Browser Market Share Down by 8-10% in 2008
- ICANN’s gTLD Proposal Hits a Wall: Now What?
- Martin Abandons Unconstitutional Filitering Proposal; What About Obama’s Universal Broadband?
- Obama Transition Team Seeks Public Comment on Space Solar Power
- Who Owns the Moon?
- PFF Amicus Brief in Key First Amendment Case: Limits on Audience Size are Unconstitutional
- Google Policy Fellowship Applications Due December 12
- M2Z Reborn: Censored, but Free, Broadband is Now Kevin Martin’s Top Priority
- “Virtual Worlds, Video Games and the Law” – 12/2 Event in DC
- $2 Billion Can Buy Real Change in Space—or More of the Same
- Alcohol Liberation Front Thursday, Nov. 6 with Jonathan Zittrain
- Use Competition to Bridge the Gap in Human Spaceflight
- Goodbye to Most Business Method & Software Patents?
- A Wide Diversity of Consumer Attitudes about Online Privacy
- Google Policy Fellow Program
- PFF Launches Center for Internet Freedom
- “Less Filling, Tastes Great!” – TLF Now on Twitter
- A Major Victory for Space Commercialization
- A Little Google/Math Humor
- NYT Live-Blogging Bailout Debate – Barney Frank Warns of Socialism!
- Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark to Speak at Google in DC October 3
- Celebrating 51 Years of the Space Age: Sputnik’s Launch
- Online Advertising & User Privacy: Principles to Guide the Debate
- “Bigger than Jesus”
- Suborbital Personal Spaceflight About to Take Off
- A Major Milestone for Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP)
- Googlephobia: Part 5 – Google at Ten & Its Competition
- Googlephobia: The Series
- Market Forces At Work: The PR Backlash Against Google Chrome’s EULA
- About Political Ads on the TLF
- The FCC’s Comcast/Net Neutrality Order & Commissioner McDowell’s Dissent
- McCain’s Tech Policy a Mixed Bag at Best
- New TLF Comment Tool (Please Read!)
- Under-Appreciated Existing Legal Remedies for Trolling, Defamation and Other “Malwebolent” Invasions of Privacy
- If Bandwidth Is Abundant, It Can’t Be Scarce, So Why Can’t We Have Net Neutrality?
- PFF Database Cleared by StopBadware.org & Put Back Online
- “Cry [Censorship] and Let Slip the Dogs of [Regulation]!” – A Lesson in the Dangers of Googlephobia
- Two Declarations of Independence
- Judge Orders Google to Turn Over YouTube Viewer Records
- Not One, Not Two, but THREE Competing Open Source Mobile Operating Systems
- New Biography of Georges Doriot, Founding Father of Venture Capital
- Best (Government) Job Ever
- Senate Housing Bill to Require Collecting of Online Payment Information
- Alcohol Liberation Front 5.1: Scoble’s Tech Happy Hour in DC Wednesday, June 25
- The Winback Wars, Round Two: Verizon v. NCTA
- Google Endorses Speed-based Prioritization – What About Net Neutrality?
- Google to Offer Broadband Users Tools to Monitor ISP Traffic Management
- Exclusive Handset Prohibitions: Should the FCC Kill the Goose that Laid the Golden iPhone?
- Google, California’s Privacy Policy Law & Our Sci-Fi Future
