In a State of Emergency, the President Can Control Your Phone, Your TV, and Even Your Light Switches
Under a little-known regulation that dates back to the 1930s, the president has legal power over electronic transmissions.
Under a little-known regulation that dates back to the 1930s, the president has legal power over electronic transmissions.
Jessica Rosenworcel overlooks the statutory and constitutional obstacles to her plan.
There's one fool-proof way to find out.
Facebook, Google, Apple, and others are now facing the sort of regulatory and antitrust animus once leveled at Bill Gates' company.
But if you're reading this, you know that's not true.
Most of us got a "presidential alert" text today. Is that something we really want?
FCC Chairman Ajit Pai says certain aspects of the deal could be in "in violation of the law."
"Ultimately, all this bill will succeed in doing is opening our state to legal challenges and costly litigation."
But their chances of getting the FCC repeal overturned remain slim.
The 37th president used the then-stronger tools of media regulation to manipulate the far more centralized 1970s news industry in ways that Donald Trump can only fantasize about.
"Let the free market prevail," says the Senate minority leader. "We don't do that for highways." Which explains traffic jams and failing infrastructure...
The policy was "a solution that won't work to a problem that doesn't exist."
In Chicago, Reason editor at large squares off against former FCC head Tom Wheeler in Oxford-style debate.
They say it's to protect free speech.
Prodding private companies into self-censorship is a dangerous government tradition.
The freakout over the 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.
The FCC's December order repealing net neutrality preempted sates from reimposing regulations.
No, the government shouldn't nationalize our mobile infrastructure.
There is roughly a zero percent chance Democrats will succeed in blocking net neutrality repeal through the Congressional Review Act.
New rules would require internet providers to be transparent about their services.
But would TV's favorite libertarian really favor federal regulation of the Internet?
Set aside the Chicken Little fears about the internet dying.
Reason.com's editor in chief hashes it out with the FCC Chairman who passed net neutrality.
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman and Matt Welch discuss sex scandals and net neutrality.
Do net neutrality advocates fear consumer choice?
Promises that "we're going to see an explosion in the kinds of connectivity and the depth of that connectivity" like never before.
In a Fifth Column interview, FCC chair announces the beginning of the end of Title II regulatory classification of Internet companies, frets about the culture of free speech, and calls social-media regulation "a dangerous road to cross."
It's all about deregulation to foster innovation.
Ajit Pai notes that his agency has no authority to consider journalistic content in making license decisions.
"Setting aside the fact that the FCC doesn't license cable channels," Ajit Pai said last month, "these demands are fundamentally at odds with our legal and cultural traditions."
Friday A/V Club: Pirate radio, then and now
A bipartisan group of senators wants an investigation into the government's latest disastrous internet intervention.
The Obama-era "Open Internet Order" discourages a free internet.
Friday A/V Club: A beatnik, a president, and a radio station that the FCC wouldn't license
Thanks for nothing, Federal Communications Commission.
Confusion over net neutrality rules has internet providers too scared to offer freebies, even though it's legal.
From nipple censorship to breast milk regulation, the government is groping where it shouldn't.
The FCC is designed to protect incumbents, enrich politicians, and screw consumers, says economist Thomas Hazlett.
The internet did just fine before bureaucrats started micromanaging it.
This isn't about whether the internet will be free and open. It's about how much power the FCC should have.
It's only doing what it *has* to do, by Congress' mandate, which is to investigate *all* complaints. BTW, f*ck the FCC!
Reason editors Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Peter Suderman talk Trump, French election, health care, Colbert, and the FCC.
Goodbye and good riddance to the Obama administration's "Open Internet Order."
"We were not living in a digital dystopia in the years leading up to 2015."
Franklin Roosevelt had his own Breitbart, and radio was his Twitter.
By nearly eliminating their equivalent of the Federal Communications Commission, Danes now enjoy some of the best IT and telecom services on earth.