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As always, remember that there are several FCC commissioners. When you see a headline about one commissioner, you aren't seeing the FCC decide something, you ar

As always, remember that there are several FCC commissioners. When you see a headline about one commissioner, you aren't seeing the FCC decide something, you are seeing the politics within the FCC play out. In fact statements like this typically mean the opinion given is not the overall direction of the FCC, because if it was a majority opinion they wouldn't need to be playing to the media and would just be enacting their will.

teepo 4y ago
Well in this case I don't think the FCC has the authority to block it. They can recommend lawmakers do something. But this begs the question of if this point of view is based on oversight of the recommendation algorithm, is it limited to those developed by foreign owned platforms?
dontbenebby 4y ago
>As always, remember that there are several FCC commissioners Do they vote along party lines too? I know at the FTC under obama, anything BCP the GOP would oppose. (It seemed extremely weird since up until that point the people who'd be the most civil had been the libertarians, an awkward alliance since the millenials have all known since middle school that money is just pieces of paper.) It's a shame the French or whatever decriminalized espionage and renamed it "business intelligence" in the 90s, or we could just start threatening to execute these people for espionage or something when they get too ornery.
- kodah 4y ago
  It can be. The Obama and Trump administrations definitely installed captive individuals. Appointment can, and probably should be, taken away. We don't need an FCC that flies by the whims of an administration. There's a lot of agencies that statement applies to though. The downside of such a take is that agencies are inherently derivative of the powers Congress gives them, so offering the president appointments is really their attempt to balance power between the branches. The real root cause is that presidents are often working hand in hand with Congress and who is really shut out is the people because Congress, regardless of the party in power, often does not reflect the will of the people. Also, kinda odd you're daydreaming about lobbing people's heads off. Maybe don't do that.
  - weard_beard 4y ago
    I think it’s a byproduct of Trump being in the news for the one offense we still auto-kill for: treason.

teepo 4y ago

Well in this case I don't think the FCC has the authority to block it. They can recommend lawmakers do something. But this begs the question of if this point of view is based on oversight of the recommendation algorithm, is it limited to those developed by foreign owned platforms?

dontbenebby 4y ago

>As always, remember that there are several FCC commissioners Do they vote along party lines too? I know at the FTC under obama, anything BCP the GOP would oppose. (It seemed extremely weird since up until that point the people who'd be the most civil had been the libertarians, an awkward alliance since the millenials have all known since middle school that money is just pieces of paper.) It's a shame the French or whatever decriminalized espionage and renamed it "business intelligence" in the 90s, or we could just start threatening to execute these people for espionage or something when they get too ornery.

kodah 4y ago
It can be. The Obama and Trump administrations definitely installed captive individuals. Appointment can, and probably should be, taken away. We don't need an FCC that flies by the whims of an administration. There's a lot of agencies that statement applies to though. The downside of such a take is that agencies are inherently derivative of the powers Congress gives them, so offering the president appointments is really their attempt to balance power between the branches. The real root cause is that presidents are often working hand in hand with Congress and who is really shut out is the people because Congress, regardless of the party in power, often does not reflect the will of the people. Also, kinda odd you're daydreaming about lobbing people's heads off. Maybe don't do that.
- weard_beard 4y ago
  I think it’s a byproduct of Trump being in the news for the one offense we still auto-kill for: treason.