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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 17, 2026
Brendan Carr Cries, Calls Jimmy Kimmel Censorship A ‘Hoax’
Last week comedian Jimmy Kimmel said Jimmy Kimmel Live! and ABC wouldn't be airing an interview with Texas Democratic Senate hopeful James Talarico on broadcast because they were worried it would anger Trump's top censorship czar, FCC boss Brendan Carr. Kimmel and ABC had cause to worry; we've outlined in detail how Carr has manufactured...
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Little Green Footballs
Little Green FootballsSep 10, 2026
Kimmel: Trump Makes 9/11 About Himself, A.I. Ready to Kill Us & Jimmy to Interview James Talarico on YouTube
The real news is that ABC News is knuckling under to Donald Trump's censorship demands. The first night of NFL football is upon us, Guillermo is a week away from competing on “Dancing with the Stars” and he is really hoping to lose weight so he does his official weigh in before the season starts, financial disclosures reveal that Trump gave cash gifts to various people that work him including $45,ooo to Natalie Harp, he has been busy this ...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 10, 2026
Jimmy Kimmel Won’t Air James Talarico Interview On ABC For Fear Of FCC Reprisal
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel‘s planned Thursday interview with Texas Senatorial hopeful James Talarico didn't air on ABC broadcast TV because network lawyers were worried about Trump FCC censorship and reprisal. Instead, the interview will air on the late-night show’s YouTube channel, Kimmel stated during his latest late night Jimmy Kimmel Live monologue: https://youtu.be/gIbSEScdV2o?si=6ExUtVCBUK8oAEX_&t=534 "You know, for...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 2, 2026
GOP Begs Supreme Court To Let It Flood Airwaves With Cheap Midterm Propaganda
Back in June, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission that federal limits on coordinated expenditures by political parties violate the First Amendment, opening the floodgates to a much broader array of political ads funded via no limit of rich assholes and their preferred dark money groups. In...
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Techdirt
TechdirtSep 1, 2026
Trump Demands FCC Punish Media Companies For His Sagging Polling
Our full-diapered mad king is at it again, this time urging FCC boss Brendan Carr to go after media companies for the crime of....simply pointing out his terrible, crashing polling numbers: Trump last week also posted a long, rambling screed on his personal propaganda website, vowing that NBC News‘ Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 28, 2026
Republicans Stumble In Bid To Flood Midterm Airwaves With Discounted Ads
Back in June, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission that federal limits on coordinated expenditures by political parties violate the First Amendment. Which is every bit as stupid and corrupt as it sounds. Previously, under the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), political parties were subjected to strict...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 21, 2026
Trump FCC Weakens U.S. Broadband Speed Goals To The Benefit Of Elon Musk And Comcast
I've spent the better part of a lifetime studying and writing about the way corrupted lawmakers and U.S. telecom giants work hand in hand to erode U.S. broadband standards and mapping so they can obscure the way corruption and monopoly result in limited broadband competition -- resulting in shitty, expensive, spotty, and slow U.S. internet...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 20, 2026
FOIA Docs Show Brendan Carr Intimately Collaborated With White House, Right Wing Propaganda Orgs
Back in 2014 you might remember there was a giant, two-year, manufactured news cycle where Republicans pretended to be outraged that the then Obama White House had openly supported the FCC's efforts to impose some modest net neutrality rules (designed to protect consumers and competition from telecom monopoly abuse of power). At the time, major...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 19, 2026
Libraries Beg Brendan Carr To Back Off Plan To Make U.S. Broadband Shittier, More Expensive
Back in June, Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr announced he'd be reviewing the FCC E-Rate program with an eye on “reforms.” Generally, when Brendan Carr promises "reforms," usually what he means is either "I'm going to destroy this program," or "I'm going to illegally make changes to this congressionally-mandated program that ensures telecom giants like...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 18, 2026
ABC Sues The FCC For Massive First Amendment Violations
After years of feckless capitulation, ABC is clearly developing something vaguely resembling a backbone. The company has filed a new lawsuit against Brendan Carr and the FCC (pdf), (correctly) claiming that the agency has been engaged in a coordinated campaign of harassment that violates the First Amendment and tramples the company's free speech rights. The...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 12, 2026
Trump Rushes To Stock FCC With Personal Lackeys, Refuses To Seat Dem Commissioners
When Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr isn't trampling free speech or harassing major networks for platforming comedians, he's been illegally taking a hatchet to whatever's left of media consolidation rules and telecom consumer protection oversight.While he's been pretty effective at this, Carr would find it even easier to convene meetings and hold agency votes if...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 7, 2026
Brendan Carr’s FCC Rewrites Media Ownership Law Only Congress Can Actually Change
There are many ways to describe the Trump Era, but the executive branch's conviction that it can simply ignore the legislative branch's entire existence has become something close to a governing principle. From impounding funds designated by Congress to launching a war without Congress's authority, Trump has basically decided that the legislative branch is a...
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Techdirt
TechdirtAug 7, 2026
16 Groups Warn FCC’s New ‘Robocall Plan’ Is Really About Dramatically Undermining Privacy
Back in May I noted how the Trump FCC had unveiled a brand new plan to “stop robocalls.” I also noted how the plan doesn’t actually stop robocalls because a well-lobbied U.S. government (1) refuses to hold big companies accountable or collect fines, (2) constantly embraces weak rules that make telemarketers and debt collectors happy...
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Techdirt
TechdirtJul 31, 2026
Trump FCC Hilariously Bungles Chinese ‘Drone Ban’
Earlier this week we noted how the Trump administration's unpopular ban on Chinese drones had become a crony capitalist mess, with Brendan Carr and his FCC struggling to fine or ban companies for violations. The ban is a stupid, protectionist mess that has far more to do with coddling the president's sons' drone investments than...
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Techdirt
TechdirtJul 30, 2026
Trump Republicans Are Destroying Decades Of Policy Progress On Affordable Broadband
Quick background: the $8 billion FCC Universal Service Fund (USF) applies a small surcharge on traditional phone lines to fund broadband expansion to unserved rural homes, schools, and libraries (of which the U.S. has a lot thanks to rampant telecom monopolization). While the USF, like all government programs, hasn't been absent of fraud (usually at...
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Techdirt
TechdirtJul 29, 2026
Former FCC Officials Line Up To Blast Brendan Carr’s Lawless Censorship Of ABC
A bipartisan roster of former top-level FCC officials have submitted a filing to the Trump FCC blasting the agency's ongoing violations of the First Amendment and urging it to terminate its phony "investigations" into ABC -- including the unprecedented early ownership review of the company's broadcast licenses. In the filing, former FCC officials allied under...
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Techdirt
TechdirtJul 28, 2026
The Trump FCC’s Chinese Drone Ban Continues To Be A Sloppy, Protectionist Mess
Last year the Trump administration announced it would ban Chinese-made drones from the U.S. As I noted at the time, the plan had several problems, not least of which being the Trump administration is a racist, corrupt, dysfunctional mess filled with weirdos and lazy incompetents, primarily interested in assorted personal investment grifts and protecting less...
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 22, 2023
The Modem Tax
How a real-life attempt to charge online services for using the phone line became an infamous internet legend. The “modem tax” was a chain-mail boogeyman.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMar 5, 2021
37’s Signals
Explaining why analog television sets never had a channel 37, despite TVs generally able to tune it. Turns out some scientists simply needed that channel more.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 8, 2020
It’s All In The Cards
With PCMCIA (also known as PC Card), it was easy to upgrade our old laptops. But for years, the tech was relegated to a depressing bureaucratic fate.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 11, 2019
Our Annoying National Upgrade
The benefits of digital television conversion were clear, but convincing everyone to upgrade their sets? For the U.S. government, that was the hard part.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMar 27, 2018
An Institute You Can’t Disparage
How an activist named Terry Rakolta tried—and failed—to convince Middle America to stop watching “Married … With Children.” She might have saved Fox.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetDec 5, 2017
Our Next Annoying National Upgrade
Nine years ago, the federal government painfully pushed the public into the arms of digital TV. Soon enough, we could be making that upgrade all over again.
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Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 11, 2017
The Invisible Puzzle
Wireless spectrum is scarce, and while mobile providers have made a sport of grabbing as much as they can, the fact is, allocating it has always been hard.
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