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Richard Bennett
Personal blog · hightechforum.orgsystemspolitics
Richard Bennett writes High Tech Forum, a personal blog at hightechforum.org about systems and politics. Since 2010, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link these posts on net neutrality, community broadband and LTE-U versus Wi-Fi, mostly as sources or rebuttals to other articles rather than as praise.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The impetus for creating High Tech Forum - Richard Bennett was this simple fact: Some of the most critical technology and telecommunications policy ...
What Hacker News says?
Hypothetical? https://www.freepress.net/blog/2017/04/25/net-neutrality-vio... (and a rebuttal: https://hightechforum.org/fact-checking-net-neutrality-viola... )
Comment linking /fact-checking-net-neutrality-violations/
on “Net Neutrality Day of Action: Help Preserve the Open Internet”Submitted It’s Good to be Netflix as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNot so much. @HighTechForum: Berkman at Harvard study finds public networks to be nearly 7 Mbps slower than commercial ones; but hey, they’re often cheaper! See Community Broadband is Cheaper – and Slower” http://hightechforum.org/community-broadband-cheaper-slower/
Comment linking /community-broadband-cheaper-slower/
on “Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband”Submitted Crashing the Internet as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis article explains a few points that explains how LTE-U can co-exist apparentely counteracting the research conclusions: http://hightechforum.org/can-lte-unlicensed-steamroll-wi-fi/
Comment linking /can-lte-unlicensed-steamroll-wi-fi/
on “Google, Microsoft, Comcast Say Verizon’s New Cellular Tech Could Wreck Wi-Fi”Submitted The Internet Is Making Us Stupid (2016) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Kill Wi-Fi as a story · 1 points
HN discussion