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After approving NBC buyout, FCC Commish becomes Comcast lobbyist

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - May. 11 (News) - Meredith Attwell Baker is leaving the FCC, but she won't be going far. Months after approving the Comcast/NBC deal, she will become one of the new company's top DC lobbyists.

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U.S. Government Seizes 82 Websites: A Glimpse at the Draconian Future of Copyright Enforcement?

Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

eff.org - By Corynne McSherry - Nov. 30 (News Analysis) - Over the past few days, the U.S. Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security and nine U.S. Attorneys’ Offices seized 82 domain names of websites they claim were engaged in the sale and distribution of counterfeit goods and illegal copyrighted works.

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FCC Doesn't Need No Stinking Rules

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

suewilsonreports.com - By Sue Wilson - Sep. 07 (Special Report) - Wow. The FCC just fined a radio station $4,000 for getting a date wrong in some radio contest rules. If that infraction is worth four grand, whatever will the FCC do to the station which killed someone because it failed to give contestants any rules at all? Will the FCC find that such a 'murder-by-radio' did not, in fact, serve the "public interest" which broadcasters are supposed to uphold in exchange for their free license to use our public airwaves? DJs at Nassau Broadcasting's WWEG-FM, "106.9 The Eagle" in Myerson, MD had broadcast rules that a Father's Day contest would be open "through June 13, 2008." But the contest actually ended June 12, apparently depriving would be contestants of their right to enter. Two years later, the FCC is punishing WWEG for violation of Section 73.1216 of the Commission's rules, which state that broadcast licensees must "fully and accurately disclose the material terms" of any contests that it conducts, and "conduct the contest substantially as announced or advertised."

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73 Democrats tell FCC: drop net neutrality rules

Thu, 27 May 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Ars Technica - By Matthew Lasar - May. 27 (News Report) - A slew of House Democrats have sent a letter to the Federal Communications Commission warning the agency not to go forward with its plan to partially reclassify ISPs as common carriers, a move needed to impose net neutrality rules. It looks like the telecoms' donations were well spent.

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FCC Fine Print Could Undermine an Open Internet | Save the Internet

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

savetheinternet.com - By Tim Karr - Nov. 03 (News Report) - Buried in the fine print of the FCC’s proposed Net Neutrality rules is a potential loophole that if left open would undermine the future of Internet freedom.

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FCC Apparently Not Very Concerned About Consumer Views On Broadband | Techdirt

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

techdirt.com - By Mike Masnick - Aug. 14 (News Analysis) - This definitely seems like politics as usual. And it's a problem, not just for the FCC, but for the very businesses involved in these discussions. Ignoring consumer will these days is increasingly a suicide pact. The businesses leading this discussion would be well-served to look at what's happening in other industries (music, newspapers) where business execs have been trying to ignore consumers' rights and interests

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Bridging the Rural Digital Divide: FCC Starts Work on National Broadband Strategy

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman, Wally Bowen - Apr. 08 (News Report) - The Federal Communications Commission, or the FCC, begins work today on a yearlong national broadband strategy to bring high-speed broadband internet into every American home. Under the $7.2 billion broadband stimulus plan, the FCC is responsible for developing a strategy to improve broadband coverage and present it to Congress in February of 2010.

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Leave net neutrality to the FCC? No way, says senator

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Ars Technica - By Nate Anderson - Nov. 14 (News Report) - With the Comcast case behind us (though now on appeal), ISPs have been telling anyone who would listen that the need for preemptive legislation is over. Much better for the markets to work everything out and for the FCC to step in on a case-by-case basis with the regulatory jackboot when someone steps over the line and starts violating the Internet Policy Statement.

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Grassroots Gears Up as FCC Revisits Ownership Rules

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 18:09:40 -0700

NewStandard - By Catherine Komp - Jul. 21 (News Report) - The fight to protect locally owned and diverse media outlets is gearing up again after the Federal Communications Commission announced it would be opening up a public comment period on newly proposed media-ownership rules. But opponents of media consolidation, including two FCC commissioners, are concerned that the proceedings will be inadequate and public input will be ignored, as was the case during the last review of ownership rules in 2003.

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