Fcc's Quotes

#1. The FCC can and indeed should do more to protect the Internet as the free and open environment people have come to expect and depend on - which is why we need to stand up to attacks on the FCC's authority.

Chellie Pingree

#2. At its core, the FCC's plan to regulate the Internet will force businesses and people to check first with the government and get permission to innovate.

Mary Bono

#3. by the FCC's own reckoning, the cable companies will soon enjoy an uncontested monopoly over broadband Internet in much of the United States beyond the East Coast, and they are also seeking control of more Hollywood studios and television networks.

Tim Wu

#4. There is just one exception to the FCC's no-throttling rule - if a company can prove that throttling is 'reasonable network management.'

Marvin Ammori

#5. Almost everything the FCC does is challenged in court. There is no clean solution because we have a Communications Act that wasn't written for broadband.

Julius Genachowski

#6. The FCC banned throttling for good reason, namely that Internet service providers should not bias their networks toward some applications or classes of applications. Biasing the network interferes with user choice, innovation, decisions of application makers, and the competitive marketplace.

Marvin Ammori

#7. You shouldn't have an overbearing FCC. Let the market work itself. By allowing companies to compete in an unregulated forum, you're going to allow the faster deployment of new services and new equipment consumers are going to want.

Fred Upton

#8. The FCC has made it clear it would punish a cable or phone company for deviating from providing 'neutral' access.

Marvin Ammori

#9. I'm the crazy one? This country has gone insane. Read about it. FCC orders NBC newsrooms to partner with Soros funded non-profits. That's how the deal went through.

Glenn Beck

#10. For years, my colleagues and I - primarily Republicans but also some Democrats - have introduced legislation and written to the FCC asking the commission to cease attempts to regulate the Internet unless given the clear authority to do so by Congress.

Mary Bono

#11. In 2007, when I was a lawyer for the public interest group Free Press, I helped draft the complaint to the FCC against Comcast for secretly blocking BitTorrent and other technologies.

Marvin Ammori

#12. For those broadcasters who are less than responsible, the FCC needs to have sharper teeth to enforce the law.

Fred Upton

#13. President Obama's FCC Chairman, Julius Genachowski, has a reputation in D.C. of being a 'tepid' regulator. From reports of his net neutrality proposal, he's living up to that reputation.

Marvin Ammori

#14. The Open Internet principles were not legal rules adopted by the FCC; they were effectively a press statement posted on the FCC website.

Marvin Ammori

#15. There was a time when the FCC tried to require a certain amount of television and media to be educational, a certain amount to be newsworthy and a certain amount of it to be public access.

Montel Williams

#16. The FCC has delayed the decision on the Time/Warner Comcast merger. So how do you think those folks like being put on hold?

David Letterman

#17. Currently under FCC policy, indecency determinations hinge on two factors. First, material must describe or depict sexual or excretory organs or activities. Second, the material must be patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium.

Doug Ose

#18. Even though the Internet touches every part of our lives, one person is to blame for potentially destroying its potential for innovation and freedom of expression: former FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski.

Marvin Ammori

#19. The biggest enemy of western people is not war or terrorism, it is their own governments lack of regulation of public health and safety.

Steven Magee

#20. The current FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, is highly regarded, but some distrust him because he is the former head lobbyist of both the cable and wireless phone industries. He's also made some statements suggesting he doesn't understand or opposes network neutrality.

Marvin Ammori

#21. FCC power rests on ... nonobjective law (which) delivers men's lives, fortunes, careers, ambitions into the arbitrary power of a bureaucrat who can reward or punish at whim.

Ayn Rand

#22. Unlike the phone system, the Internet has no Ma Bell or FCC to mandate new policies for the entire system. Not even Microsoft can make us all upgrade our routers. I think.

Paul Boutin

#23. The FCC is considering lifting the ban on cellphone calls on planes. The good news is you'll be able to make calls during your flight. The bad news? The person sitting next to you will be able to make cellphone calls during yourflight.

Jay Leno

#24. FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has said that several foreign dignitaries personally spoke to him about creating a new Internet user fee to subsidize an international universal service fund at the expense of traditional end users.

Marsha Blackburn

#25. The FCC sided with the public and adopted extremely strong net neutrality rules that should be a global model for Internet freedom.

Marvin Ammori

#26. We have FCC, abandoned alimony payments, assault and battery, Homeland Security escalation, and that's before we invite the IRS to take a walk on your wild side.

Ken Goldstein

#27. [With R-rated movie] you're not dealing with the restrictions imposed by the FCC. They're self-imposed. In a way, that does make it harder. You actually have to think about it, as opposed to just taking for granted that you're not going to be able to do this.

Seth MacFarlane

#28. We love having the freedom that we have with the web; I mean, we don't have to answer to anybody. We have complete creative control; we don't have to worry about FCC regulations.

Emma Caulfield

#29. The Department of Justice should resolutely bar monopolizing mergers in all markets, including telecommunications, but they are not in a position, as is the FCC, to promote new competition by selling the airwaves in auctions.

Reed Hundt

#30. The issues of wireless versus wireline gets very messy. And that's really an FCC issue, not a Google issue.

Eric Schmidt

#31. Do we really want the FCC to conduct investigations and issue warnings to radio talk show hosts nationwide who simply discuss the important issues of our time? The Constitution says 'freedom of speech,' not 'freedom of government-approved fair speech in rationed amounts.'

Tim Walberg

#32. Inserting the FCC into our states' economic and fiscal affairs sets a dangerous precedent and violates state sovereignty in a manner that warrants deeper examination.

Marsha Blackburn

#33. I have no faith in the USA corporate government systems of protection of public health and safety.

Steven Magee

#34. The FCC should obviously not propose bad rules that will be struck down; it should propose good rules that will be upheld.

Marvin Ammori

#35. The FCC can't enforce press-statement principles without adopting official rules, and those rules must be based on the legal theory of reclassification.

Marvin Ammori