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  2. Federal Communications Commission - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Communications Commission ( FCC) is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable across the United States. The FCC maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public ...

  3. Consumers' Research v. Federal Communications Commission

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    The Sixth Circuit reviewed the complaint in March 2023. The court focused on the legality of the FCC's universal service program as authorized by law in the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Section 254 of that act requires the structures of fee collection and budgetary oversight by the FCC that are at issue in the complaint.

  4. Net neutrality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The FCC's open comment period on the proposed language of "Restoring Internet Freedom" received about 21.9 million comments, the largest influx of public comments seen by the FCC at that time; previously the FCC had gotten about 500,000 comments related to new media ownership rules in 2003 and 1.4 million comments from the Super Bowl XXXVIII ...

  5. FCC adopts rules to eliminate 'digital discrimination' for ...

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    The Federal Communications Commission has enacted new rules intended to eliminate discrimination in access to internet services, a move which regulators are calling the first major U.S. digital ...

  6. Robotext Complaints At FCC Reveal Tactics of Spammers - AOL

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    A growing, national nightmare: Complaints to the FCC about unwanted text messages eclipsed 15,000 last year, according to Newsy's data analysis. Considering some of the phone numbers people across ...

  7. Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet ...

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    The net neutrality regulations adopted Thursday by the Federal Communications Commission prohibit providers such as AT&T, Comcast and Verizon from selectively speeding up, slowing down or blocking ...

  8. Federal Communications Commission fines of The Howard Stern ...

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    The Howard Stern Show. Between 1990 and 2004, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued fines totaling $2.5 million to radio licensees for airing material it deemed indecent from The Howard Stern Show, the highest amount of any American radio show. The Supreme Court had provided broadcasting guidelines for indecent material in its 1978 ...

  9. Net neutrality restored as FCC votes to regulate internet ...

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    April 25, 2024 at 4:57 PM. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission on Thursday voted to restore “net neutrality” rules that prevent broadband internet providers such as Comcast and ...