Robert Fuller I hope ‘Jake’s Way’ proves to be a bridge that could lead viewers back to watching traditional western TV series. But it probably will never happen, thanks to the FCC and the PTA. – Robert Fuller
Robert Fuller I hope ‘Jake’s Way’ proves to be a bridge that could lead viewers back to watching traditional western TV series. But it probably will never happen, thanks to the FCC and the PTA. – Robert Fuller
Montel Williams There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access. – Montel Williams
Michael O'Rielly Instead of fostering investment and innovation through deregulation, the FCC will be devoting its resources to adopting new rules without any evidence that consumers are unable to access the content of their choice. – Michael O’Rielly
Michael O'Rielly Notably, the FCC fact sheet regarding the net neutrality plan does not mention any accommodations for small providers. – Michael O’Rielly
Marvin Ammori The current FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, is highly regarded, but some distrust him because he is the former head lobbyist of both the cable and wireless phone industries. He’s also made some statements suggesting he doesn’t understand or opposes network neutrality. – Marvin Ammori
Marvin Ammori Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. – Marvin Ammori
Marvin Ammori The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace. – Marvin Ammori
Marvin Ammori President Obama’s FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in D.C. of being a ‘tepid’ regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he’s living up to that reputation. – Marvin Ammori
Marvin Ammori In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies. – Marvin Ammori
Marsha Blackburn Inserting the FCC into our states’ economic and fiscal affairs sets a dangerous precedent and violates state sovereignty in a manner that warrants deeper examination. – Marsha Blackburn
Julius Genachowski Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn’t written for broadband. – Julius Genachowski