@jeffjarvis uh, so **less-regulated** comms?

Apologies; it’s pre-coffee AM here. Do we agree on disliking Carr but wanting MORE effort to reestablish strong, independent news & media? Not this?

@jeffjarvis I think the framing from WaPo is not the right one. It shows why FCC needs to be independent of the government and focused on technical issues, not that it should not exist.

In other countries there are also criteria about foreign ownership, but they come from the law, not from who is heading the agency.

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Now do that about law enforcement.

@jeffjarvis The airwaves are public. It's a legitimate function of a democratic government to regulate, i.e., license, their use. In particular, allocation of frequencies and signal coverage areas needs to be enforced by law. A privatized or non-governmental entity could not prevent corporate media from poaching on desirable in-use frequencies, causing chaos for consumers by cranking up the power to drown out competition.

The alleged FCC role in policing content is a right-wing invention