The Anatomy of a Political Weapon The legal sparring between Disney and the Federal Communications Commission is not, at its core, a fresh skirmish over free speech in the digital age. Instead, it is a Read More
The Illusion of Empowerment in Telecom Regulation The Federal Communications Commission’s recent announcement — a plan to establish a robocall mitigation scorecard for phone companies — sounds, on its surface, like a victory for the perpetually Read More
Beyond the Rhetoric: Weaponizing Regulators Former President Donald Trump’s recent demand for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to “punish or rebuke” an NBC journalist reveals far more than another frustrated politician railing against perceived Read More
The Analog Anomaly in a Digital Age The Republican campaign committees’ fight to mandate discounted ad rates for political parties on broadcast television, now headed for the Supreme Court, is a precise distillation of everything Read More
The FCC’s Retreat: Lowering the Bar, Not Raising the Standard America’s digital infrastructure just got a lot less ambitious, and the world barely noticed. While Silicon Valley obsesses over the next AI breakthrough Read More
The Regulatory Hammer: Beyond Speech A federal agency threatening to revoke broadcast licenses is not merely a legal spat; it is a cold, hard assertion of power that echoes far beyond the US District Court Read More
The most revealing aspect of the Federal Communications Commission’s attempt to compel ABC into early license renewal isn’t the familiar political theater between a sitting president and a major network. It is the Read More
The Sweeping Reach of ‘Foreign-Produced’ Robotics The US Federal Communications Commission isn’t just banning industrial espionage tools or advanced military automatons. It’s banning robot vacuum cleaners. This often-overlooked detail reveals the true, indiscriminate Read More
The Illusion of “Burden” and Hidden Costs Consumers in the United States just lost a crucial tool for understanding their broadband bills. The Federal Communications Commission, with a single vote, stripped away a nascent requirement Read More
The Price of Progress, or Just Profiteering? California, a beacon of technological progress, is still wrestling with the profoundly analog question of basic phone service. Last week, a federal judge in the Southern District of Read More