Posted by Ilya Shapiro on July 13, 2010
By Ilya Shapiro
Today, we celebrate a free speech victory in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York. In the case of Fox Television v. Federal Communications Commission, the three-judge panel struck down the FCC’s indecency policy for being “unconstitutionally vague” and “creating a chilling effect that goes far beyond the fleeting expletives issue” (e.g., stray f-bombs) [...]
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Posted by Jim Harper on June 1, 2010
By Jim Harper
Last week, I referred obscurely to “folks wanting to install the FCC as the Internet’s regulator,” cautioning that this same Federal Communications Commission is our national censor.
A friendly correspondent points me to an article in Ars Technica about the demand for speech controls coming from the same groups that want the FCC to control the Internet’s infrastructure, groups [...]
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Posted by Jim Harper on May 27, 2010
By Jim Harper
Amid charge and countercharge about who is shilling for whom in the debate over Internet regulation, Peter Suderman has the right focus in a short piece on Reason’s Hit & Run blog. The Federal Communications Commission’s Chairman is claiming that he only wants to regulate the Internet’s infrastructure, but one of his colleagues, Commissioner Michael [...]
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Posted by Jim Harper on May 17, 2010
By Jim Harper
The New York Times starts its commentary on proposed Internet regulations with a clever ad hominem argument: “The Republican attack on the Federal Communications Commission’s proposal to classify broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service sounded a lot like the G.O.P. talking points on health care reform.”
The GOP are being like themselves. Accordingly, Times readers [...]
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