Several groups warned the FCC that the agency...
Several groups warned the FCC that the agency seems to be losing objectivity in recent proceedings, citing the net neutrality rulemaking, but the FCC defended its actions. The groups, including American Commitment, the Center for Boundless Innovation in Technology, the…
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Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance and TechFreedom, sent a letter to the FCC Thursday (http://bit.ly/1vBp9jM). “Increasingly, however, FCC staff appear to be disregarding arguments that do not fit a preconceived agenda; and worse, they may be actively manipulating media coverage around controversial issues,” the groups said in the letter. They point to recent media reports that some FCC staffers may have “helped spin media coverage in favor of those pushing the FCC to invoke Title II.” The FCC said its involvement was to make sure all parties could comment in the proceeding. The agency’s information technology “team worked with multiple parties to ensure everyone was able to successfully submit comments to the agency on the Open Internet proceeding,” an FCC spokeswoman said. “After receiving a surge of comments leading up to the reply comment deadline, the IT team created a third option for filing bulk comments. This option was made available to all interested parties at the same time via a blog post on our website.”