... and producer for NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon," tweeted. "Now kindly stop tweeting nonsense and go do your job for once." The FCC rule says political candidates should be treated equally by broadcast television stations when it comes to selling or giving away air time during an ...
... Human Services Secretary Tom Price. And a Congressional Quarterly reporter was allegedly manhandled by security guards when he tried to ask a question after an FCC hearing. To explore the meaning of these incidents, we're joined by Howard Kurtz, host of "Media Buzz" on FOX News Channel, and Tom ...
... faster than competing services. New FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a speech last week that the rules were unnecessary. He wants to eliminate the FCC's broad powers to monitor Verizon and others for bad behavior. MORE: FCC chair Ajit Pai explains why he wants to scrap net neutrality ...
... the corporations behind the “failing” and “fake” mainstream media are having a banner year, TheStreet reports. Growing audiences, increased subscribers and a hope that lax FCC regulations will enable more TV station consolidation are driving meteoric growth. CBS (+9%), NewsCorp (+13.4%), Disney (+8.8%), the New York Times Co ...
Thursday on the NewsHour, President Trump steps back from pulling the plug on NAFTA, instead offering to renegotiate with Mexico and Canada. Also: The FCC chairman's plans to reduce government oversight of internet providers, President Trump's first 100 days in foreign policy, making sense of rising health care ...
... joined now by Scott Cleland who's a researcher and advocate for greater Internet competition, and by Gigi Sohn, who used to be with the FCC, where she helped craft the now repealed rules. Welcome to you both. Scott, help me understand this. I know you work a lot with ...
... iPads, and even our cellphones would be fair game for internet companies to sell and make a fast buck." The Trump-appointed chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, is a critic of the broadband privacy rules and has said he wants to roll them back. He and other Republicans want ...
... Order also put the FCC in charge of privacy regulations. Until 2015, the Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, held jurisdiction over ISPs, according to a FCC statement. However, two years ago, the FCC “stripped the FTC of its authority over internet service providers.” The debate over net neutrality can be ...
... law still requires broadband providers to protect customer information — but it doesn't spell out how or what companies must do. That's what the FCC rule aimed to do. The Trump-appointed chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, is a critic of the broadband privacy rules and has said ...
... You know, you have to rewind the clock a bit to the last administration to understand how we got to where we are now. The FCC under chairman Tom Wheeler, an appointee from President Barack Obama, put in place rules the require Internet providers like Comcast and Verizon and AT ...
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