Showing posts with label FCC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label FCC. Show all posts

Why Government Should Never Control The Internet

by Robert M. McDowell.      Tomorrow is the deadline for the public to comment on the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) attempt to regulate the Internet under the seemingly innocuous moniker of “net neutrality.” The architect of this movement, and the man who coined the term “net neutrality,” is Columbia law professor Tim Wu.    ... MORE

Brent Skorup: Net Neutrality Nonsense

Ignore the scare tactics.     In January, for the second time in recent years, a federal court told the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that its net neutrality enforcement was illegal, sending the agency back to the drawing board. On May 15, the FCC proposed new rules.* Dozens of major news outlets have trying to read the tea leaves, with    ... MORE

Why Federal Agencies Run Amok

by Arthur G. Sapper & M. Miller Baker.      A prominent federal appeals court in Washington, one step below the Supreme Court, recently announced that the Federal Communications Commission has the far-reaching power to impose “neutrality” rules on the Internet.  The court did so not because it found that Congress gave the FCC that    ... MORE

Thomas Sowell: Freedom Is Not Free

Protect the Constitution and it will protect you.     There may be something to the claim that all people want to be free. But it is a demonstrable fact that freedom has been under attack, usually successfully, for thousands of years. The Federal Communications Commission's recent plan to have a "study" of how editorial      ... MORE

Hate Speech: A Pretense For The New Inquisition

by Craig Parshall.        An effective tool to suppress free thought. Recently, 12 members of the House of Representatives signed on to H.R. 3878, a bill that would launch an investigation into any "role" that might be played by radio, television, and the Internet to supposedly "encourage" the commission of hate crimes. I have been       ... MORE

Washington Times: Obama's Internet Tax

FCC should not impose multibillion-dollar tax the web.    The government doesn’t handle technology well. When Uncle Sam comes into contact with something new, his first instinct is to impose familiar regulations and taxes regardless of whether doing so makes any sense. So it’s no surprise the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)   ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: The Mythical Right To Decency

High court misses chance to overturn speech restrictions. Pity the poor speech regulators at the Federal Communications Commission, who are charged with sifting through complaints about TV and radio programs in a farcical attempt to determine which references to "sexual or excretory organs or activities" are "patently offensive as measured  ... MORE

Deroy Murdock: Red Tape Costs US 700,000 Jobs

Business environment continues to deteriorate.    Federal regulators are keeping America from moving forward. According to recent news stories reviewed by my colleagues at the conservative nonprofit organization Engage America, federal red tape has squelched at least 736,203 potential jobs. If these positions were filled, today's     ... MORE

John Stossel: Crony Capitalism Stifles Competition

Instinctively, we look for people's motives.   We need to know whom we can trust and whom we can't. We're especially skeptical of business because we know business wants our money. It took me too long to understand that business's desire for profit is a good thing. To get our money, businesses — if they can't look to the government for favors ... MORE

Jacob Sullum: The Freakin' FCC

The incomprehensible ban on broadcast indecency.    My daughters, who range in age from 5 to 18, watch TV programs and movies on DVDs, on smart phones, streaming from Netflix through our Wii, on video websites, on our DVR, and on demand from AT&T U-verse. They do not know or care what “broadcast television” is, and they   ... MORE

Anthony Gregory: The Indecency Of The FCC

Authorities overriding freedom of expression and speech. The Supreme Court this week heard oral arguments in FCC v. Fox. In this important first amendment case, the Judges will determine whether to enact significant limitations to the Federal Communication Commission’s power to censor the airwaves. The proximate issue concerns FCC’s ... MORE

VIDEO: Cellphone Alert System Announced in NYC


Alert system gives government new powers to track citizens.