The Senate confirmed Nathan Simington to the FCC on Tuesday, assuring that Republicans will have two seats on the commission to match those of Democrats when Joe Biden takes office.
Simington was confirmed in a 49-46 vote. Ajit Pai, who has been chairman of the agency during the Trump administration, said last week he will step down on January 20, leaving the agency with a 2-2 split between Republican and Democrats.
Biden will be able to nominate a fifth commissioner to break a deadlock, but if Republicans control the Senate, they could seek to tie up Biden’s pick and keep the agency from passing some of the policy priorities of Democrats. There has been hope among progressive activists that a new Democratic majority on the FCC would restore a robust set of net neutrality rules, which were largely rolled back during Pai’s tenure.
Simington’s nomination was rooted in...
Simington was confirmed in a 49-46 vote. Ajit Pai, who has been chairman of the agency during the Trump administration, said last week he will step down on January 20, leaving the agency with a 2-2 split between Republican and Democrats.
Biden will be able to nominate a fifth commissioner to break a deadlock, but if Republicans control the Senate, they could seek to tie up Biden’s pick and keep the agency from passing some of the policy priorities of Democrats. There has been hope among progressive activists that a new Democratic majority on the FCC would restore a robust set of net neutrality rules, which were largely rolled back during Pai’s tenure.
Simington’s nomination was rooted in...
- 12/8/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The latest news out of the latest congressional hearing on tech platforms’ content moderation practices was from Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, who said that he’s open to a rethink of Section 230.
That’s the provision of a 1996 law that gives Facebook, Twitter, Google and other platforms immunity for the way that they moderate third-party content.
But just six days before a presidential election, the Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday with Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Alphabet-Google CEO Sundar Pichai was, for anyone who’s been following this stuff, exactly what you would think.
One after another, Republicans griped that their voices were being stifled on the platforms, with inconsistently deployed policies or what a number of lawmakers see as bias against the right (counterpoint: Facebook’s top performing links over the past 24 hours).
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-tx), who promoted the hearing with a meme akin to a prizefight,...
That’s the provision of a 1996 law that gives Facebook, Twitter, Google and other platforms immunity for the way that they moderate third-party content.
But just six days before a presidential election, the Senate Commerce Committee hearing Wednesday with Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Alphabet-Google CEO Sundar Pichai was, for anyone who’s been following this stuff, exactly what you would think.
One after another, Republicans griped that their voices were being stifled on the platforms, with inconsistently deployed policies or what a number of lawmakers see as bias against the right (counterpoint: Facebook’s top performing links over the past 24 hours).
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-tx), who promoted the hearing with a meme akin to a prizefight,...
- 10/28/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The White House withdrew the nomination of Michael O’Rielly to serve another term as commissioner at the FCC, just days after he gave a speech in which he signaled his opposition to President Donald Trump’s executive order to try to limit liability protections for social media companies.
O’Rielly, a Republican who joined the commission in 2013, was facing Senate confirmation for another term that would have extended through 2024.
The White House did not give a reason for the withdrawal of the nomination, and it was unclear if it was related to O’Rielly’s comments on Trump’s social media order. The president and others on the right have long complained that tech platforms’ content moderation practices are biased against conservatives.
Last week, O’Rielly addressed in a speech he gave to the Media Institute in which he criticized the effort to target the social media platforms.
“The First...
O’Rielly, a Republican who joined the commission in 2013, was facing Senate confirmation for another term that would have extended through 2024.
The White House did not give a reason for the withdrawal of the nomination, and it was unclear if it was related to O’Rielly’s comments on Trump’s social media order. The president and others on the right have long complained that tech platforms’ content moderation practices are biased against conservatives.
Last week, O’Rielly addressed in a speech he gave to the Media Institute in which he criticized the effort to target the social media platforms.
“The First...
- 8/4/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
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