Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the Supreme Court of the State of New York Appellate Division, Second Department in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. v. Kos Media, LLC. The case concerns an individual who authored a post on the digital media website Daily Kos under the [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12-17-21 The Federal Trade Commission has been almost exclusively an enforcement agency, but under new chair Lina Khan it is looking at coming up with new rules to address what Khan calls “lax security practices, data privacy abuses, and algorithmic decisionmaking that may result in unlawful discrimination.” That is [...]
FOR RELEASE: December 17, 2021 Contact: Richard T. Kaplar The Media Institute 703-243-5700 Arlington, Va., December 17, 2021 – Keith R. Murphy, senior vice president for government relations and regulatory counsel for ViacomCBS Inc., has been elected to the Board of Trustees of The Media Institute, it was announced today by Institute President Richard T. [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12-16-21 Federal Communications Chair Jessica Rosenworcel made it clear to Republican lawmakers before her successful confirmation vote (68 to 31) earlier this month to a new, five-year term that she did not support efforts by “some liberal organizations” to remove conservative cable channels from their lineups or for the [...]
Participated in an amicus brief (with the Reporters Committee and other amici) filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Courthouse News Service, et al. v. Glessner. The case concerns recent amendments to Maine’s Rules of Electronic Court Systems (“RECS”) that delay public access to newly filed civil complaints. Courthouse News Service and other [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12-15-21 FCC Democratic nominee Gigi Sohn signaled to Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that she would be no slam dunk vote for restoring the FCC’s vague “general conduct standard” if chairperson Jessica Rosenworcel tees up restoration of the FCC's open internet rules as expected. Under former FCC chairman Tom Wheeler, [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12-9-21 Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) has called on Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan to immediately launch an investigation of “recent revelations and public documentation” that it had misled advertisers and the public in making claims about the “brand safety” and reach of its ads, which she said would [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12-8-21 President Biden is promoting broadband investment as one of the ways his administration is strengthening American democracy. The White House issued a fact sheet Wednesday outlining all the things his team has done to advance those values “against the backdrop of a rise in authoritarianism and increasing threats [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12-8-21 It’s official. The Senate has voted to confirm Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel to a new, five-year term on the commission, her third term but first as chair – President Joe Biden designated her chair Oct. 26 after she had been acting chair since January. The vote [...]
By John Eggerton, Multichannel News, 12-2-21 The House on Thursday (Dec. 2) passed three communications-related bills, including one requiring the Federal Communications Commission to start kicking the tires on 6G wireless. The bills are the FUTURE Networks Act (HR 4045), the Understanding Cybersecurity of Mobile Networks Act (HR 2685), and the American Cybersecurity Literacy [...]