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Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an American regulatory agency based in Washington, D.C. It is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government.

History

In 2015, the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University published a report by Norm Alster titled Captured Agency: How the Federal Communications Commission is Dominated by the Industries it Presumably Regulates, describing the FCC as a "captured agency" compromised by its financial ties to the telecommunications industry.[1]


  1. Harvard Press Book on Telecom Industry Influence To The US FCC - Captured Agency by Norm Alster. Environmental Health Trust. Retrieved October 7, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20231007165510/https://ehtrust.org/key-issues/harvard-press-book-telecom-industry-influence-us-fcc-captured-agency/ ↩︎