{"id":24044,"date":"2021-11-10T17:00:11","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/?post_type=team_member&#038;p=24044"},"modified":"2025-09-26T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T16:58:21","slug":"harold-feld","status":"publish","type":"team_member","link":"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/team_member\/harold-feld\/","title":{"rendered":"Harold Feld"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Harold Feld is Public Knowledge\u2019s Senior Vice President and author of \u201cThe Case for the Digital Platform Act,\u201d a guide to what government can do to preserve competition and empower individual users in the huge swath of our economy now referred to as \u201cBig Tech.\u201d Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler described this book as, \u201c[&#8230;] a tour de force of the issues raised by the digital economy and internet capitalism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more than 20 years, Feld has practiced law at the intersection of technology, broadband, and media policy in both the private sector and in the public interest community. Feld has an undergraduate degree from Princeton University, a law degree from Boston University, and clerked for the D.C. Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Feld also writes \u201cTales of the Sausage Factory,\u201d a progressive blog on media and telecom policy. In 2007, Illinois Senator Dick Durbin praised him and his blog for \u201c[doing] a lot of great work helping people understand how FCC decisions affect people and communities on the ground.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24089,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-24044","team_member","type-team_member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.5 (Yoast SEO v26.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Harold Feld - Public Knowledge<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/team_member\/harold-feld\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Harold Feld\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Harold Feld is Public Knowledge\u2019s Senior Vice President and author of \u201cThe Case for the Digital Platform Act,\u201d a guide to what government can do to preserve competition and empower individual users in the huge swath of our economy now referred to as \u201cBig Tech.\u201d Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler described this book as, \u201c[&#8230;] [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/team_member\/harold-feld\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Public Knowledge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-26T16:58:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/harold-headshot-scaled-e1638297506597.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1209\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1272\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/team_member\/harold-feld\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/publicknowledge.org\/team_member\/harold-feld\/\",\"name\":\"Harold Feld - 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