Christopher Terry
@christopherterry
University of Minnesota/HSJMC Associate Professor of Media Law. I teach folks about the 1st Amendment, @FCC, @FEC& @FTC policy for a living. Otherwise talking Brewer Baseball and Fishing. And yes, the hostile opinions re: FCC policy failures are mine.
I have been doing the broadband deployment thing for a long time now, including a stint with the FCC's CEDC and another with the Center for Quantum Networks. It amazes me the agency can still get away with this kind of presentation of garbage data, a problem that continues under Carr.
There's nothing controversial about this....the FCC and Brendan Carr broke the law with this vote, and its not even close. www.law360.com/competition/...
"Changes from biennial to quadrennial the mandatory review by the FCC of its adopted rules concerning broadcast ownership and all of its ownership rules as part of its regulatory reform review. Makes such requirement inapplicable to any rules relating to the 39 percent national audience reach limit"
Posting this here without comment because people I interact with on here do a better job than I do.
The important paragraph of this post, worded as carefully as possible:
So...next year, anyone want to team up for an empirical project on enforcement of the Take It Down Act? I think we'll have some exciting source material to work with.
I don't know....are we making this the first entry in our ETSY shop?
Another win for "competition theory" regulation! potsandpansbyccg.com/2026/05/29/g...
The Mindsift section, in the third FTC consent order: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10546.pdf
Here's the key element of the related CMG Consent order: public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10548.pdf
The FTC's 1010 Digital Consent Order public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-10547.pdf is posted to the federal register.
DC Circ. Orders FCC Response In News Distortion Dispute www.law360.com/telecom/arti...
If you need me, I'll be waving my flags. I tied them on my broom.
Legal Accountability Center’s complaint against Brendan T. Carr, a Washington D.C. and Maryland-licensed attorney currently serving as the Chair of the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) legalaccountability.org/actions/comp...
The NRB complaint to the FCC about Jimmy Kimmel that led to the license renewal mandate for the ABC O+O's this week wouldn't have gotten a passing grade in my undergrad media law course.
Imagine going back in time and telling people that Disney, who once released the movie, Song of the South, would be getting investigated by the FCC for...(checks notes)..... having too much diversity!?!
I've been advocating for FTC 5(a) enforcement action against social media influencer deception since 2020. This data suggests it is getting hard to argue that the agency can continue to ignore this problem.
Joe Gow and Carmen Wilson in my media law section this morning to talk about their adult content and the lawsuit against the State of Wisconsin.
Just a reminder, the FCC, and by extension, Chairman Brendan Carr have literally no power to regulate political content on a cable network. Not some, in a limited circumstance when conditions align. None. None what-so-ever. Tell him to go pound sand.
I started playing Battletech with the same crew I still play today with about the time this box came out (way before 1995), and I still have two copies of Third Edition (and the plas-tech minis) on my game shelf. There's still quite a few of us around.
I am going to go on a limb here...and suggest that maybe hiring morons who were shitposters, podcasters or players on the performance theater that is Fox News is not such a great idea, and that hiring folks for...um I don't know...things like competence, could, and even would, be a better idea.
Preparing a lecture on the history of FCC content regulations this evening and I hit the internet archives for this classic moment in NBC's compliance with the "Kid TV" rules. E/I Programming's Greatest Moment.
I have been attending @aejmc.bsky.social SE Regional in Tampa this weekend. I talked about the FCC on multiple panels. Please understand that this latest Carr outrage tantrum comes with my standard reminder: he doesn't have personal authority or power to mandate or regulate broadcaster speech.