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    What Role Should FCC Play in Policing Profanity on the Airwaves?

    Jan 10, 2012 11:21 PM EST

    ... is one everybody sort of understands quickly. MARCIA COYLE: Absolutely. JEFFREY BROWN: What can be on television? What's indecency in the eyes of the FCC? MARCIA COYLE: All right, the Federal Communications Commission defines indecency as material that describes or depicts sexual or excretory organs or activities in a ...

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    FCC's Genachowski: New Alerts Aim to Limit 'Bill Shock' for Wireless Users

    Oct 17, 2011 10:32 PM EST

    ... limits. The FCC proposed such rules last year, then held off on implementing them under the new agreement. Julius Genachowski is the chair of the FCC, and he joins me now. Mr. Chairman, what's bill shock? And what was the FCC looking for in the way of customer protection ...

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    FCC's Net Neutrality Order Released

    Dec 23, 2010 11:00 PM EST

    ... last working day before the Christmas holiday is observed, the FCC released what commissioners actually voted on. DV.load('http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23325-fcc-net-neutrality-order.js', { width: 450, height: 600, sidebar: false, container: "#viewer-23325-fcc-net-neutrality-order" }); We're still digging through the 194 ...

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    FCC Rolls Out New Rules for Regulating Internet Traffic

    Dec 21, 2010 09:44 PM EST

    ... to go on. CECILIA KANG: This is just the beginning. This is just the beginning of a lot of steps. And this particular rule, the FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, said he's tried to strike a compromise. And what he's done, effectively, by striking compromise, sort of hitting the ...

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    Divided FCC OKs Net Neutrality Rules

    Dec 21, 2010 07:11 PM EST

    ... Vote goes 3-2 in favor of the "ayes." Chairman, Comms. Copps and Clyburn in favor; McDowell and Baker against. #oirTue Dec 21 via TweetDeckThe FCCFCC The Wall Street Journal lays out the new regulations: The new FCC rules, for example, would prevent a broadband provider, such as Comcast Corp ...

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    Court Rules Against FCC in 'Net Neutrality' Case

    Apr 06, 2010 06:18 PM EST

    ... customers. While the agency has made equal treatment for all Web users a key policy goal, the court concluded Congress has yet to grant the FCC "untrammeled freedom" to regulate broadband. "Today's court decision invalidated the prior commission's approach to preserving an open internet," the FCC said in ...

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    FCC Urges 20-Fold Internet Speed Increase in U.S. Broadband Plan

    Mar 16, 2010 06:20 PM EST

    The Federal Communications Commission formally unveiled Tuesday a sweeping proposal to expand broadband Internet access across the U.S., a critical peg of the Obama administration's efforts to boost the nation's global competitiveness. The FCC proposal calls for connecting some 100 million U.S. households to broadband connections ...

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    Obama and FCC Betting on Broadband as Stimulus

    Mar 15, 2010 09:31 PM EST

    ... have high-speed connections often lack computer literacy, are worried about online identity theft or simply can't afford to pay another monthly bill, the FCC has found. Julius Genachowski, head of the FCC and the man in charge of implementing a broadband plan, called for a "national commitment" to ...

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    FCC Plan Urges Faster, Wider Broadband Internet Access Across U.S.

    Mar 15, 2010 04:00 AM EST

    JULIUS GENACHOWSKI: It's vital that we have strong competition policies at the FCC. This is the best strategy in our country to produce investment and innovation, to produce lower prices and better services. We will be moving forward with a series of initiatives that are in the plan. I ...

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    FCC Chairman Signals Strong Backing for 'Open Internet'

    Sep 21, 2009 10:00 PM EST

    FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski outlined broad and explicit guidelines to internet service providers in a speech Monday during a speech at the Brookings Institution in Washington. He said his agency must act affirmatively to preserve an open Internet. "Saying nothing -- and doing nothing -- would impose its own form of unacceptable ...