Brendan Carr, newly installed as chairman of the FCC under the new Trump administration, is reviving a trio of complaints ...
The departing chairwoman of the FCC, Jessica Rosenworcel, warned of efforts to tie the broadcast station license renewals to news content, as the agency dismissed a series of complaints brought ...
Furthermore, as he notes, “the FCC clearly has an interest in and the authority ... to ensure that local broadcast TV stations retain the economic and operational independence necessary to meet ...
This ruling significantly curtailed the FCC's ability to implement and enforce net neutrality regulations. Net neutrality, a principle that advocates for equal treatment of all internet traffic ...
The right to net neutrality has again been lost after a federal court ruled that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) did not have the power to ban a two-tier internet. The FCC had acted in ...
The FCC had sought to reinstate a sweeping policy established under President Obama that was designed to treat internet service as an essential public service, similar to a water or power utility.
Last year, the FCC voted to reinstate net neutrality rules that prevented broadband providers from blocking or throttling internet traffic to certain websites and speeding up access to others.
President-elect Donald Trump announced Senate aide Olivia Trusty as his pick for FCC commissioner, which would give Republicans a majority at the regulatory agency. Trusty is currently policy ...
But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said Thursday that the FCC lacked the authority to reinstate the rules. The rules, which were put in place under President Barack Obama ...
The FCC had sought to reinstate a sweeping policy established under President Obama that was designed to treat internet service as an essential public service, similar to a water or power utility.
FCC Tosses News Bias Complaint Over Harris 60 Minutes Clip Outgoing chair Rosenworcel takes stand defending free speech FCC ‘should not be the president’s speech police,’ she says ...
In case the implications weren’t clear enough, Carr spelled out exactly how his agency could punish them: For now, I am writing to obtain information from you that can inform the FCC’s work to ...