Federal Communications Commission

The Federal Communications Commission, or FCC is an independent agency of the United States government that regulates interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. The mission of the FCC is "make available so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, rapid, efficient, Nationwide, and world-wide wire and radio communication services with adequate facilities at reasonable charges."

They have not done a great job at holding up their mission, as Net Neutrality has been struck down and people are going to be charged erroneously to use the Internet soon.

Most recently, the FCC has been in the news because senators believe that the chairman Ajit Pai improperly pushed through rules to try and benefit the Sinclair group. The Sinclair group is a media company that is attempting to merger with Tribune media in order to control 75% of the news across the country. Sinclair group is also notoriously known to be pushing a hard right view and wish to control all of the media that people receive in this news. This could easily be translated into views that striking down Net Neutrality is the correct move and we could lose the fight.

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