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Ajit Pai

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Reason Roundup

4 Years After the FCC Repealed Net Neutrality, the Internet Is Better Than Ever

Plus: Pfizer's new pill prevents severe disease from the omicron coronavirus variant, Boston University has a bizarre Title IX training module, and more...

Robby Soave | 12.15.2021 9:30 AM

Q&A | Gage Skidmore

FCC

Ajit Pai on What the FCC Has Done Right

Pai has focused on taking a market-based approach to regulating the nation's always-evolving telecommunications industry, with great success.

Nick Gillespie | 1.25.2021 6:00 AM

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Reason Roundup

FCC Won't Fulfill Trump Order for 'Regulations to Clarify' Section 230

Plus: Trump concedes on reinstated Twitter account, Cabinet resignations keep coming, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 1.8.2021 9:30 AM

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Coronavirus

A Progressive Media Group Demanded Censorship of Trump's Coronavirus Press Briefings. The FCC Said No.

The group's petition "would dangerously curtail the freedom of the press embodied in the First Amendment."

Robby Soave | 4.6.2020 1:59 PM

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Net Neutrality

Federal Court Upholds FCC Decision to Roll Back Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules

Deregulation didn't end the internet as we know it.

Peter Suderman | 10.1.2019 4:24 PM

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FCC

More Americans Have High-Speed Internet Access Than Ever

Preliminary FCC report claims the number of Americans with high-speed connections grew by 20 percent in 2017.

Nick Gillespie | 2.20.2019 3:15 PM

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Net Neutrality

Everybody Wants To Regulate the Internet Except Ajit Pai: Podcast

One year after Net Neutrality, connection speed is up, the discrimination critics feared is non-existent, and the debate about Internet regulation is abysmal.

Matt Welch | 12.17.2018 2:15 PM

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Net Neutrality

One Year Ago Today, the FCC Killed the Internet

But if you're reading this, you know that's not true.

Eric Boehm | 12.14.2018 6:15 PM

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Ajit Pai

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren Want the FCC to Revoke Sinclair's Broadcast Licenses

They say it's to protect free speech.

Matt Welch | 4.12.2018 2:40 PM

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Media

5 Things Everyone's Getting Wrong About Sinclair Broadcast Group

The company that brought you that wince-inducing "fake news" promo is not a "monopoly," and cracking down on it will not defend the free press.

Matt Welch | 4.3.2018 2:37 PM

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Technology

The FCC Takes Its Hands Off the Internet

Peter Suderman | 2.1.2018 12:00 PM

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Telecommunications Policy

FCC Chair Throws Water on Crazy Plan for Feds to Seize Control of Our 5G Networks

No, the government shouldn't nationalize our mobile infrastructure.

Scott Shackford | 1.29.2018 10:45 AM

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Net Neutrality

The FCC Just Voted to Roll Back Obama-Era Net Neutrality Rules

New rules would require internet providers to be transparent about their services.

Peter Suderman | 12.14.2017 1:13 PM

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FCC

FCC Chief Promises Crackdown on Unlicensed Broadcasting

Friday A/V Club: Pirate radio, then and now

Jesse Walker | 10.6.2017 1:59 PM

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FCC

New FCC Rule Could Send TV Back to the Dark Ages of September 2016

This is not the sort of "consolidation wave" to worry about.

Jesse Walker | 3.31.2017 11:56 AM

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