{"id":1660,"date":"2010-05-25T16:29:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T16:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discovery.org\/tech\/2010\/05\/25\/new_effort_to_update_communica\/"},"modified":"2024-10-15T21:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:56:40","slug":"new_effort_to_update_communica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/2010\/05\/25\/new_effort_to_update_communica\/","title":{"rendered":"New effort to update Communications Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Congress will revisit the Communications Act of 1934 (see <a href=\"http:\/\/commerce.senate.gov\/public\/index.cfm?p=PressReleases&amp;ContentRecord_id=d640d467-da07-4c7c-930d-023d3a007dd2\">this<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/energycommerce.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=2014:chairmen-announce-process-to-update-communications-act&amp;catid=122:media-advisories&amp;Itemid=55\">this<\/a>) in the aftermath of an appellate court <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disco-tech.org\/2010\/04\/post_18.php\">decision<\/a> limiting the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s ability to regulate the Internet.<br \/>\n&#8220;Stakeholders&#8221; will be invited to participate in a series of bipartisan, issue-focused &#8220;meetings&#8221; beginning in June, according to the congressional statements.<br \/>\nHopefully congressional leaders are contemplating a transparent process consisting of   public hearings.  If they are planning closed-door listening sessions with special interest representatives, that could encourage self-serving agendas and obscure horse-trading which can wind up costing consumers a bundle.<br \/>\nBefore it wrote the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Senate Commerce Committee alone compiled an 817-page hearing record (S. Hrg. 103-599) on the basis of hearings on Feb. 23, Mar. 2 and 17, and May 4, 11, 12, 18, 24 and 25, 1994.  The House Energy &amp; Commerce Committee conducted a separate set of extensive hearings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress will revisit the Communications Act of 1934 (see this and this) in the aftermath of an appellate court decision limiting the Federal Communications Commission&#8217;s ability to regulate the Internet. &#8220;Stakeholders&#8221; will be invited to participate in a series of bipartisan, issue-focused &#8220;meetings&#8221; beginning in June, according to the congressional statements. Hopefully congressional leaders are contemplating a transparent process consisting of public hearings. If they are planning closed-door listening sessions with special interest representatives, that could encourage self-serving agendas and obscure horse-trading which can wind up costing consumers a bundle. Before it wrote the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the Senate Commerce Committee alone compiled an 817-page hearing record (S. Hrg. 103-599) on the basis of hearings on Feb. 23, Mar.<a class=\"ellipsis article-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/2010\/05\/25\/new_effort_to_update_communica\/\"><span> Read More &rsaquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,45],"tags":[],"coauthors":[112],"class_list":["post-1660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality","category-telecommunications"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Hance Haney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1660"}],"wp:action-assign-author":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discovery.org\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}