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'We don't need the FCC': A Trump advisor's proposal to dissolve America's telecom watchdog
LA Times ^ | 11/24/16 | Brian Fung

Posted on 11/24/2016 2:46:48 AM PST by markomalley

A top advisor to Donald Trump on tech policy matters proposed all but abolishing the nation's telecom regulator last month, foreshadowing possible moves by the president-elect to sharply reduce the Federal Communications Commission's role as a consumer protection watchdog.

In an Oct. 21 blog post, Mark Jamison, who on Monday was named one of two members of Trump's tech policy transition team, laid out his ideal vision for the government's role in telecommunications, concluding there is little need for the agency to exist.

"Most of the original motivations for having an FCC have gone away," Jamison wrote. "Telecommunications network providers and [Internet service providers] are rarely, if ever, monopolies."

The FCC declined to comment for this story, but its current leadership has disagreed strongly with that analysis. Its Democratic chairman, Tom Wheeler, has spoken of an Internet service "duopoly" in much of the country that limits competition. And he has compared telecommunications to the rail and telegraph networks of the 19th century, calling for new rules of the road as the Internet becomes the dominant communications platform of the 21st century.

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To: lee martell

Trump is holding the same views as he has from the beginning. It is the MSM who is trying their best to discredit him.

For instance:

The media spin on President Elect Donald J. Trump’s sit down with the New York Times on November 22, can only be described as dishonest. Trump appears to soften stance on climate change & Donald Trump backflips on climate change & Trump on climate change in major U-turn
The ‘fake news’ that Trump had somehow moderated or changed his “global warming” views was not supported by the full transcript of the meeting.

http://www.climatedepot.com/2016/11/23/fake-news-update-media-falsely-spins-trumps-climate-comments-read-full-nyt-transcript/

The MSM is picking and chosing partial quotes. I hope by now you have seen that they are misleading.


81 posted on 11/24/2016 6:07:06 AM PST by HollyB
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To: Democrat_media

He’s not trying to abolish the FCC.


82 posted on 11/24/2016 6:08:41 AM PST by HollyB
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To: markomalley; All

Federal regulation of Internet coming, warn FCC, FEC commissioners

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fed-regulation-of-internet-coming-warn-fcc-fec-commissioners/article/2595304

Abolish the FCC


83 posted on 11/24/2016 6:09:26 AM PST by Democrat_media (President Trump has to change the 1965 immigration act so he can get a 2nd term)
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To: HollyB

I’m saying the FCC must be abolished because I know the FCC will try to censor the Internet as the article below proves. . But I hope Trump becomes aware of this

Federal regulation of Internet coming, warn FCC, FEC commissioners

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fed-regulation-of-internet-coming-warn-fcc-fec-commissioners/article/2595304

Abolish the FCC


84 posted on 11/24/2016 6:11:27 AM PST by Democrat_media (President Trump has to change the 1965 immigration act so he can get a 2nd term)
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To: markomalley

We actually need spectrum management more than ever.


85 posted on 11/24/2016 6:13:16 AM PST by USNBandit (Sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: jazminerose

I agree. I’m saying the FCC must be abolished because I know the FCC will try to censor the Internet as the article below proves. . But I hope Trump becomes aware of this

Federal regulation of Internet coming, warn FCC, FEC commissioners

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fed-regulation-of-internet-coming-warn-fcc-fec-commissioners/article/2595304

Abolish the FCC


86 posted on 11/24/2016 6:13:45 AM PST by Democrat_media (President Trump has to change the 1965 immigration act so he can get a 2nd term)
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To: HollyB

Those are all good points . I agree.


87 posted on 11/24/2016 6:15:29 AM PST by Democrat_media (President Trump has to change the 1965 immigration act so he can get a 2nd term)
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To: markomalley
Well, that would be interesting in regards to amateur radio.

Having been a licensed Amateur Radio operator for 60 years, I was thinking the same thing.

88 posted on 11/24/2016 6:18:35 AM PST by teletech
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To: Fai Mao
So much winning. Huge. Bigly.
89 posted on 11/24/2016 6:19:12 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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To: Democrat_media

I’m with you. While a lot that goes on in the FCC is probably way out of my field, I’m definitely opposed to Net Neutality and other over regulation.


90 posted on 11/24/2016 6:26:28 AM PST by HollyB
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To: markomalley

The FCCs move to regulate the internet and to bring back any kind of equal time is very disturbing. There is a need for band assignment and interference control. Maybe conducted emission control, but the FCC has become a tool for censorship. This needs to come from Congress with a big hammer on their heads.


91 posted on 11/24/2016 6:26:54 AM PST by Dennis M.
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To: Dennis M.

I agree. I’m saying the FCC must be abolished because I know the FCC will try to censor the Internet as the article below proves. . But I hope Trump becomes aware of this

Federal regulation of Internet coming, warn FCC, FEC commissioners

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fed-regulation-of-internet-coming-warn-fcc-fec-commissioners/article/2595304

Abolish the FCC


92 posted on 11/24/2016 6:33:04 AM PST by Democrat_media (President Trump has to change the 1965 immigration act so he can get a 2nd term)
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To: Fixit
The FCC puts the imprimatur of the government on the claims of journalistic “objectivity” which spring from the business imperatives of wire service journalism.

That is exactly backward. The lesson of ancient Greek disputation is encapsulated in the following two etymological definitions:

sophist
1542, earlier sophister (c.1380), from L. sophista, sophistes, from Gk. sophistes, from sophizesthai "to become wise or learned," from sophos "wise, clever," of unknown origin. Gk. sophistes came to mean "one who gives intellectual instruction for pay," and, contrasted with "philosopher," it became a term of contempt. Ancient sophists were famous for their clever, specious arguments.
philosopher
O.E. philosophe, from L. philosophus, from Gk. philosophos "philosopher," lit. "lover of wisdom," from philos "loving" + sophos "wise, a sage."

"Pythagoras was the first who called himself philosophos, instead of sophos, 'wise man,' since this latter term was suggestive of immodesty." [Klein]

The lesson is that claiming a virtue as an argumentation technique is a mark of the propagandist. I think all reporters should try to be objective, and if they are then it is legitimate to say so. But nobody has any business claiming to actually be objective. The first task of a sincere effort at objectivity is to be candid about what incentives might cause you to not be objective. This is entirely incompatible with any claim to actually be objective.

Thus, the government has no business at all promoting “objective” journalism. Philosophy - e.g., openly conservative commentary such as Rush - is fine. It is the “objective” half-truths and lies that are the problem.


93 posted on 11/24/2016 6:36:50 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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To: markomalley

Agree....


94 posted on 11/24/2016 6:40:33 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: usconservative

You maybe right about this area but most of what the FCC does is simply an exercise in busybodiedness


95 posted on 11/24/2016 6:42:15 AM PST by Fai Mao (PIAPS for Prison 2016)
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To: Gaffer

...equal time ?

I thought the fairness doctrine was dead in the water ?


96 posted on 11/24/2016 6:43:58 AM PST by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Squantos

It did. But NPR never actively represented conservative viewpoints with any zeal. It has been all one-sided in my opinion.


97 posted on 11/24/2016 6:45:11 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: markomalley

A private consortium like the IEEE would do a much better job than the FCC.

And the FAA, FDA, DoE, etc...


98 posted on 11/24/2016 6:46:51 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: Gaffer
Wrong.I’m saying the FCC must be abolished because I know the FCC will try to censor the Internet as the article below proves. . But I hope Trump becomes aware of this

Federal regulation of Internet coming, warn FCC, FEC commissioners

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fed-regulation-of-internet-coming-warn-fcc-fec-commissioners/article/2595304

Abolish the FCC and investigate these bureaucratic tyrants

99 posted on 11/24/2016 6:48:36 AM PST by Democrat_media (President Trump has to change the 1965 immigration act so he can get a 2nd term)
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To: markomalley
Some other agency would have to be tasked with the licensening and regulating the bandwidth or chaos will result. There have been problems with cellular screwing up some of the frequencies being used by GPS.

BUT for controlling radio, TV, Phones, and Internet - Absolutely NOT. Dump it for all those reasons.
100 posted on 11/24/2016 6:49:36 AM PST by Cheerio (Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
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