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3 Nov 2011, 6:02 am
Image via WikipediaThe United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit yesterday upheld its 2008 ruling that the Federal Communications Commission acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" when it fined CBS Corp. $550,000 for airing the 2004 Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime wardrobe malfunction that caused Justin Timberlake to bare Janet Jackson's breast for an entire nine-sixteenths of a second (see "TUOL" post 9/17/09).As reported by the Associated… [read post]
12 Dec 2006, 4:43 am
In a pre-emptive strike inspired as much by the regulations of the Federal Communications Commission as by the laws of comedy, NBC bought the license to hornymanatee.com, for $159, after the taping of the Dec. 4 show but before it was broadcast. [read post]
20 Oct 2022, 4:33 pm
That’s when the Federal Communications Commission granted safe harbor to online service providers like Google, protecting them from copyright infringement claims about third-party content, with a condition that the providers disclose information on any users alleged to be infringers. [read post]
8 Aug 2023, 12:22 pm
Today, the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) fined 11 firms a combined $549 million for what the SEC described as "widespread and longstanding failures by the firms and their employees to maintain and preserve electronic communications. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 6:31 am
" In an opinion delivered by Justice Thomas, the Court by a vote of 8-0 deferred to the Federal Communication Commission's view, which was that "its regulations require the incumbent provider to [make certain transmission facilities available to competitors at cost-based rates] if the facilities are to be used . . . to link the incumbent provider's telephone network with the competitor's network for the mutual exchange of traffic. [read post]
18 Aug 2020, 12:39 pm
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson) The Federal Communications Commission is taking another round of public comments on Charter's petition seeking permission to impose data caps on broadband users and charge network-interconnection fees to online-video providers, following a court ruling that may complicate the FCC's decision. [read post]
10 Sep 2014, 11:45 am
BattleForTheNet Today is the "Internet Slowdown," a protest of the Federal Communications Commission's proposed net neutrality rules that would allow Internet service providers to charge Web services for priority access to consumers. [read post]
13 Apr 2016, 11:24 am
(credit: White House) As Republicans in Congress push legislation that would gut the Federal Communications Commission's authority to enforce net neutrality rules, the White House today issued a policy statement threatening a veto. [read post]
2 Jul 2020, 10:33 am
The plan includes $80 billion in fiscal year 2021, money that the Federal Communications Commission would use to fund high-speed broadband projects in unserved and underserved areas. [read post]
10 Oct 2018, 8:48 am
(credit: Getty Images | Mark Wilson ) The Federal Communications Commission is changing the rules for an upcoming spectrum auction in a way that will make it harder for small carriers to buy spectrum for deploying broadband. [read post]
9 Aug 2017, 9:13 am
(credit: Getty Images | Yuri_Arcurs) Americans might not need a fast home Internet connection, the Federal Communications Commission suggests in a new document. [read post]
29 Jan 2015, 7:02 am
The Federal Communications Commission will reportedly set up a complaint process to review the controversial paid peering deals in which online content providers such as Netflix pay for access to broadband providers' networks. [read post]
15 Feb 2015, 10:00 am
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission announced recently he would seek to reclassify broadband Internet as a common carrier service so the government could enforce net neutrality rules, something that President Obama supports. [read post]
26 Jan 2018, 11:10 am
Enlarge (credit: Martin Abegglen) The Montana governor's office has a message for the Federal Communications Commission and Internet service providers: the state can't be stopped from protecting net neutrality, and ISPs that don't like it don't have to do business with state agencies. [read post]
31 Jan 2016, 8:00 am
This year, the Federal Communications Commission reported that 41 percent of Americans living on tribal lands lacked access to broadband (which the FCC currently defines as 25Mbps for downstream speeds and 3Mbps for upstream speeds); that number leaps to 68 percent for those in rural areas of tribal lands. [read post]
14 Feb 2023, 8:16 am
(credit: Getty Images) President Biden's long-stalled nominee to the Federal Communications Commission fired back at her critics today, saying that the telecom industry shouldn't be allowed to choose its own regulators. [read post]
21 Jul 2017, 12:55 pm
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Valery Brozhinsky) US Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) criticized the Federal Communications Commission for failing to turn over its internal analysis of the DDoS attacks that hit the FCC's public comment system. [read post]
1 Dec 2017, 11:09 am
But when it says @freepress's 2010 #NetNeutrality predictions about mobile blocking were wrong, AT&T conveniently omits blocking FaceTime on cellular in 2012. https://t.co/zrl4cI2odn — (((Matt Wood))) (@mattfwood) December 1, 2017 In AT&T's new blog post, Senior Executive VP Bob Quinn refers back to a prediction Free Press made in 2010 when the first version of the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules were adopted. [read post]
13 May 2015, 12:55 pm
Broadband industry trade groups have gone back to court, demanding an immediate halt to the Federal Communications Commission decision to reclassify Internet access as a common carrier service. [read post]
23 Dec 2006, 8:08 am
To achieve their ends, they’ve turned the Federal Censorship, uh, Communications Commission into an agency whose job is frequently to assess big fines against broadcasters for all kinds of alleged violations of decency. [read post]
