En Banc Fifth Circuit Concludes FCC's "Universal Service" Fee Is Unconstitutional
A majority of the judges concludes this fee constitutes a tax, the authority for which is improperly delegated.
A majority of the judges concludes this fee constitutes a tax, the authority for which is improperly delegated.
The move would lower the per-minute cost precipitously and allow inmates to better keep in touch with friends and family.
Growth of regulation slowed under former President Trump, but it still increased.
The senior Republican FCC commissioner blames progressive politics, while lawmakers and telecom companies blame bureaucratic red tape.
Net neutrality rules have been instituted and repealed multiple times in the past 15 years, and yet internet use has thrived in each scenario.
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Attempts to reclassify ISPs as common carriers are unsupported by law.
Net neutrality is an unnecessary and failed policy.
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Sohn, whose nomination could go before the Senate for a final vote within the coming weeks, is stuck in the past.
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Powerful companies attempting to get government agencies to suppress competition means consumers could lose out.
Remember, the "open internet" that regulatory rules purportedly preserve emerged from a world without net neutrality rules.
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Don’t call yourself a supporter of the First Amendment while attempting to punish a media outlet for criticizing you.
The Biden administration is manufacturing a market failure to justify spending $100 billion on municipal broadband and other government-run internet projects.
He was no libertarian, but he absorbed an important lesson about regulating speech.
It was terrible for free speech on the radio dial. We shouldn't inflict it on the internet too.
Pai has focused on taking a market-based approach to regulating the nation's always-evolving telecommunications industry, with great success.
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The FCC did not even seek to defend its authority to impose the conditions.
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The lawsuit is the latest in a string of frivolous suits the president's reelection campaign has filed against media outlets.
The group's petition "would dangerously curtail the freedom of the press embodied in the First Amendment."
Deregulation didn't end the internet as we know it.
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It would essentially be a Fairness Doctrine for the internet.