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1 month ago | 
brookings.edu | Nicol Turner Lee |Tom Wheeler
For the last four years under the leadership of former Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) focused on closing the digital divide, advancing the nation’s infrastructure assets, and enacting safety and security measures to ensure the commission could withstand the rising increase in natural disasters.
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1 month ago | 
benton.org | Tom Wheeler
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has cagily created a new and coercive technique for operating outside the agency’s established statutes and procedures to attack corporate decisions he and Donald Trump do not like. That technique is to use its powers—or the threat thereof—to micromanage the activities of companies without needing to follow the niceties of commission votes and judicial review.
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1 month ago | 
brookings.edu | Tom Wheeler
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has cagily created a new and coercive technique for operating outside the agency’s established statutes and procedures to attack corporate decisions he and Donald Trump do not like. That technique is to use its powers—or the threat thereof—to micromanage the activities of companies without needing to follow the niceties of commission votes and judicial review.
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2 months ago | 
brookings.edu | Tom Wheeler
In the first hours of his presidency, Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14149, “Restoring Freedom of Speech and Ending Federal Censorship.” The Order prohibits any “federal department, agency, entity, officer, employee, or agent” from acting “in a manner that advanced the Government’s preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate.” Two days later, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) reopened a previously dismissed proceeding, the effect of which...
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Tom Wheeler
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2 months ago | 
time.com | Tom Wheeler
IdeasBy Tom WheelerJanuary 30, 2025 1:45 PM ESTTom Wheeler was chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from 2013 to 2017. He is currently a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School Shorenstein Center and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is also the author of, TECHLASH: Who Makes the Rules in the New Gilded Age.
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2 months ago | 
brookings.edu | Tom Wheeler
Big Tech may have found their response to the European Union’s (EU) digital competition and content moderation policies: tariffs. “We’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world,” Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in his announcement eliminating the company’s fact-checkers. President Trump, of course, has described himself as a “Tariff Man.”Europe’s “ever-increasing number of laws, institutionalizing censorship” were number one on the Zuckerberg target list.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
benton.org | Tom Wheeler
“Americans, your calls and texts can be monitored by Chinese spies,” a Washington Post opinion piece recently headlined. China has “growing cyber-sophistication and relentless ambition to undermine U.S. infrastructure” another Post article reported. Some analyses trace the recent exploitation to a telecommunications network backdoor created early in the era of digital networks to allow for court-authorized wiretaps.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
brookings.edu | Tom Wheeler
“Americans, your calls and texts can be monitored by Chinese spies,” a Washington Post opinion piece recently headlined. China has “growing cyber-sophistication and relentless ambition to undermine U.S. infrastructure” another Post article reported. Some analyses trace the recent exploitation to a telecommunications network backdoor created early in the era of digital networks to allow for court-authorized wiretaps.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
benton.org | Tom Wheeler
As president of the United States, Donald Trump threatened the federally issued licenses of television broadcast outlets that displeased him. Now, in 2024, as a presidential candidate, Donald Trump has reasserted that broadcasters who displease him should lose their federal airwave licenses.
