Consumers’ Research before the U.S. Supreme Court. NCLA asks the Justices to rule that Congress unconstitutionally empowered the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to set and then rewrite its own ...

Telecommunications legislation passed by the U.S. Congress in 1996. Although it covers many ... The RBOCs thought the Act would be a road map for getting into long distance in exchange for ending ...

They did this thanks to the little-known Telecommunications Act of 1996, signed by Bill Clinton, which ensured that the ...

Key elements of the 1996 Telecommunications Act were meant to contain the FCC and establish fair deregulation of the telecom industry. Unfortunately, the act did not establish the means or provide ...

47 U.S.C. § 230(a)(4). The Federal Communications Commission largely followed this command from the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by regulating the Internet with a light touch for nearly 15 ...

The first law passed by Congress to regulate the internet, the Telecommunications Act of 1996, contained a provision that criminalized the knowing transmission of obscene content to minors.

When I was young, my mom would always call family late at night. I learned that she did this to avoid huge long-distance fees. Back then there were pretty steep fees per minute for long-distance ...

which was amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, unless a provider is a “common carrier.” Under the 1996 act, a “telecommunications service” is subject to common-carrier regulatory ...

Judge Oldham: In the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress delegated its taxing power to the Federal Communications Commission. FCC then subdelegated the taxing power to a private corporation.

Last month, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the latest attempt by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to impose net neutrality rules. Specifically, the court ruled that “the FCC ...

They did this thanks to the little-known Telecommunications Act of 1996, signed by Bill Clinton, which ensured that the then-fledging industry would remain unregulated and untaxed – a law that ...