FSF's May Calls for Elimination of FCC Public Interest Authority
Congress should eliminate the FCC’s public interest authority because it's unconstitutional and based on an outdated view of the media marketplace, wrote Free State Foundation CEO Randolph May in a post Tuesday. “FCC commissioners from both political parties have invoked…
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the public interest standard to threaten free speech rights.” Congress should overhaul the Communications Act to reflect modern changes to the media marketplace and remove the public interest authority in the process, he said. “I will concede that I am not optimistic that Congress will act anytime soon to do what I suggest here and have long recommended. But it could, and it should.”