The company, which says it takes an "apolitical approach" to rating news outlets, faces regulatory threats and a congressional probe because of its perceived bias against conservatives.
Brendan Carr’s plans for "reining in Big Tech" are a threat to limited government, free speech, free markets, and the rule of law.
"Reining in Big Tech," Brendan Carr says, requires scrapping liability protections and restricting moderation decisions.
A rural Arkansas county files more than twice as many FCC complaints per resident than anywhere else in the United States.
The decades-old regulation imposes burdens that no other media outlets are subject to.
The Republican presidential candidate argues that CBS and The Washington Post broke the law by covering the election in ways he did not like.
Despite his cluelessness, the former president's inclination to punish constitutionally protected speech reflects his authoritarian disregard for civil liberties.
How the equal time rule is helping him hijack the airwaves.
The Florida Department of Health sent a cease and desist order to a Florida news station after it aired an ad claiming that women with cancer would be unable to obtain abortions in the state.
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Net neutrality rules have been instituted and repealed multiple times in the past 15 years, and yet internet use has thrived in each scenario.
One viewer said it should be illegal to take the Lord's name in vain on TV—and that was one of the more coherent complaints.
Your donations help us take on today's Prohibitionists.
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel has initiated a new rulemaking that would enact what are largely the same net neutrality rules tried back in 2016.
After five years without net neutrality rules, the fix for a problem that doesn’t exist is back.
How cable TV transformed politics—and how politics transformed cable TV
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While Sohn’s record raises ethics and judgment questions, some attacks against her lacked merit.
Attempts to reclassify ISPs as common carriers are unsupported by law.
Net neutrality is an unnecessary and failed policy.
How the FCC went from regulating telegraphs to regulating satellites
I asked scholars, podcasters, and passersby how they'd change the nation's founding charter. Here's what they told me.
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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Telling a century's worth of stories about the people who had done creative things on the radio dial—and their opponents
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.
Friday A/V Club: Some people are against concentrated media power. Some just want to bend it to their will.
The technological hurdles might be too difficult to overcome, but it's worth trying.
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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"I am pessimistic about where this goes in the future," says the outgoing chairman, who is stepping down in January.
The outgoing FCC chairman discusses 'light-touch' regulation and the future of free speech on the internet.
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The FCC did not even seek to defend its authority to impose the conditions.
A century before its threats against TikTok, Washington pried a different media company out of foreign hands.
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