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Articles and publications tagged Regulatory Capture across the Atmosphere.

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Techdirt
TechdirtOct 23, 2026
Trump Leveraged FCC ‘Investigation’ Into Dish CEO Charlie Ergen To Get Him To Donate To Ballroom
The Washington Post recently had some interesting additional insight into the various “pay to play” shenanigans related to Trump’s $330 million ballroom. They got a hold of a broader donor list, noting that Nvidia and Apple each committed $25 million, the top contribution amount. As did GOP donor mainstay the Adelson family. Crypto companies are...
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Techdirt
TechdirtOct 21, 2026
Broken Fifth Circuit Kills Massive Program That Helps Poor Rural Kids Get Broadband
You may have noticed that under corrupt Trumpist courts, if a regulator like the FCC engages in literally anything that threatens corporate power or aids workers, competition, or consumers (say, net neutrality, for example), or even school kids, it’s clearly illegal and a dramatic overreach of regulatory power. If an agency does things like launch...
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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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