By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 10-13-20 Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has weighed in on Sec. 230 and he has clearly signaled he things the High Court should take up the issue of lower court expansion of that online content immunity provision. Thomas took the opportunity of the Supreme Court's refusal to hear the appeal [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Blankenship v. Blakeman. This appeal arises from a defamation action brought by failed senatorial candidate Don Blankenship against Fox News contributor Bradley Blakeman. Blankenship alleged that an incorrect statement by [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 10-13-20 Cable and telecom broadband operators have joined to tell President Donald Trump not to try and nationalize 5G network infrastructure by inserting the government into the commercial market. That is according to a copy of a letter being sent to the White House later today from NCTA-The Internet & [...]
FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr Is Featured Speaker at Oct. 14 Virtual Event FOR RELEASE: October 12, 2020 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., October 12, 2020 – The Media Institute will bestow awards on David L. Cohen, senior executive vice president of Comcast Corporation, and Mignon Clyburn, former FCC commissioner and [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 10-11-20 If Silicon Valley executives thought it couldn’t get much hotter for them in D.C., they have another think coming. And Democrats, who once defended edge providers as the virtuous inhabitants of an online garden threatened by Internet service providers, were leading the charge. At the head of the pack [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 10-8-20 The FCC has a message for a federal appeals court's concerns about its net neutrality rule dereg: Not to worry. The FCC has released the draft of its order responding to a federal court remand seeking a clearer picture of the impact of the FCC's Internet access deregulation on [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 10-7-20 Advertisers are concerned with some of the legislative recommendations for reining in Big Tech suggested in a House Antitrust Subcommittee Majority report on a year-plus investigation into Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook. The report concluded that the companies were either monopolies or dominant players who abused their power to [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 10-5-20 The FCC has come up with the final framework for giving out $9 billion in rural broadband deployment funds and it will not be handed out before the FCC collects better broadband deployment data. FCC chairman Ajit Pai said he has circulated that framework for a vote at the [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 10-5-20 Federal Communications Chairman Chairman Ajit Pai said Monday (Oct. 5) that the Commission plans to vote at its October meeting on its response to a federal appeals court remand on its Restoring Internet Freedom (RIF) ISP deregulation order. Pai said the item addressed the court's issues and “affirms that [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 10-5-20 The FCC will vote at its October meeting to expand the use of the "white spaces" between TV channels for rural broadband, something Microsoft has been pushing and broadcasters have some issues with. According to FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, the "targeted changes" will protect TV broadcasters while allowing for [...]