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  • 'We don't need the FCC': A Trump advisor's proposal to dissolve America's telecom watchdog

    11/24/2016 2:46:48 AM PST · by markomalley · 214 replies
    LA Times ^ | 11/24/16 | Brian Fung
    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...