The FCC is simply a fascist propaganda tool of the democrat party!
DON’T STOP THERE...
How it got started. The Federal Radio Commission was the precursor to the FCC.
http://earlyradiohistory.us/sec023.htm
Early Government Regulation (1903-1941)
A much smaller agency with much less power can enforce decency regulations and station ownership limits(what few are left)
Seems to me that with all the digital media these days, many of the problems the FCC was supposed to deal with are gone anyway.
Yeah, except that most of them don't "lose" their original mission/purpose. The problem is that most of them are Trojan horses, whose real purpose is not their supposed "mission" when they are created.
For the FCC to even think about a plan like that warrants its shutdown.
I grew up the 1970’s when the FCC was going after stations on the basis of liberal Fairness Doctrine complaints.
This was RIchard NixOn’s FCC that actually shut down a radio station owned by a fundamentalist preacher who supported a military victory in Vietnam. His crime was probably not supporting Nixon’s “peace talks” with the commies.
Back then, I heard Dr. Carl McIntire and other victims of the FCC’s wrath call for a new agency strictly limited to regulating technical matters like interference with someone else’s frequency spectrum and nothing else.
The Radio Television News Directors Association and other voices of the MSM back then like “Broadcasting” magazine advocated that the First Amendment applied to broadcasters as well as the newspapers.
These bastards can’t (won’t) even enforce “Do Not Call.” Send them gold-plated evidence of wrongdoing, they sit on your complaint for about a year, then send you a letter saying that they couldn’t fix the problem.
I’m not sure, but I suspect the FCC is also to blame for all the “public interest” advertising run by stations seeking to ensure license renewals. I wonder, too, if “diversity” requirements are not already responsible for some programming decisions.
Just like the NLRB, this agency’s “mission” at its core will only attract those of a certain political stripe. Their bias is built into the agency’s DNA.
Do not abolish the FCC. Just cut its budget 90% until it does its mission and answers to the people and the Congress.
Go FCC!
And take the EPA with you.
The FCC needs to be scaled back to assign frequencies so stations don’t interfere with one another.
That’s ALL they should do.
I had a friend who was working for a local radio station in 1980. It was the same station at which Rush Limbaugh had worked early in his career.
After Reagan was elected this guy told me that his station’s chief engineer was ecstatic. “Why”? I asked him.
“Because Reagan is gonna cut the FCC budget so low, in two years you’ll be able to listen to this station on Jupiter!”
Sadly his prediction did not come to pass.
Just Abolish The FCCAnd the EPA, DHS, ATF, DEA, NPR, etc.
There are some functions the FCC performs that are needed, and it is tricky to imagine how they would be done without the FCC.
For example, bandwidth allocation on the electromagnetic spectrum. It not only needs direction at the local, state, and national level, but at the international level as well, and for private, commercial and government uses.
Going digital both freed up a lot of bandwidth, but resulted in a rush of new purposes far greater than the freed amounts.
Just today there were hints that even more bandwidth would be needed for various government agencies to control drones all over the US.
So if the FCC is to be reduced, hopefully with a strict prohibition against censoring content, and maybe with some more authority to prevent media market monopolies, it might be slender enough to survive.
The Republican’s won’t get rid of the E.P.A. And you expect them to get rid of the FCC?Its not going to happen.They’re cowards.
One of many Fedzilla agencies that needs to vanish.
It was the Obama FCC that MADE us get this new technology for televisions.
It was the Obama FCC that lowered the standards For acquiring HAM radio licenses.
It is the Obama FCC that is pursuing broadband transmission.
It is the Obama FCC that dismantled the weather radio frequencies, once built into emergency radios sold by the Red Cross!!!
Defund these, fine ugly clerk/kooks swiftly!!