The FCC inspector general is investigating whether Pai improperly pushed for rule changes that would clear the way for Sinclair's purchase of Tribune Media.
Rep. Greg Walden (R–Oregon) thinks the CEOs of the largest phone, cable and internet companies should call all the shots when it comes to Net Neutrality. Reps. Pallone and Doyle have a better idea.
We're still picking ourselves off the floor from all the laughing we did when AT&T issued a press release this afternoon announcing that it was joining the "Day of Action for preserving and advancing the open internet."
Last night Congress voted to gut the Federal Communications Commission’s broadband-privacy rules, which were designed to prevent your internet service provider from selling your personal data (such as your web-browsing history) to advertisers and other companies without your consent.
It’s never been more apparent that the corporate media have failed the people of this nation. But the march toward centralized, consolidated media and communications platforms pushes on.
AT&T is an enormous media, telecom and internet gatekeeper with a horrible track record of overcharging you, limiting your choices and spying on you. And now it wants to get even bigger.
Just 12 weeks before the presidential elections, Comedy Central pulled the plug on one of its two Black-hosted late-night daily comedy programs, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.