The FCC Wireline Bureau extended until Dec.1, 2023, its waiver pausing the phasedown of Lifeline voice-only support and increase in minimum service standards, in an order posted Friday in docket 11-42 (see 2111050058). The bureau cited a "continued preference for voice-only services and the enduring nature" of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Administrative Law Judge Jane Halprin has granted a 20-day extension to low-power broadcaster Marion Educational Exchange to hire an attorney after the broadcaster failed to respond to multiple communications from the FCC, said an order in MEE’s license hearing proceeding Friday. "The Presiding Judge would be justified in dismissing this proceeding due to MEE’s failure to prosecute its application,” the order said. “Given the seriousness of that result, however, the Presiding Judge is willing to provide MEE more time to engage new counsel.” MEE had argued that it hadn’t received communications related to the case from the Media Bureau and its first attorney -- who has since withdrawn -- but Halprin expressed skepticism about those claims. “Perhaps Mr. Craft did not read the emails, but the Presiding Judge does not find it credible that he did not receive them,” the letter said, referring to Shawn Craft, MEE's board president. MEE has said it can’t afford a lawyer, but Halprin said MEE’s conduct has given her pause about allowing the proceeding to continue without the broadcaster having representation. “It is not clear that MEE has explored whether an attorney might take the case pro bono considering the company’s nonprofit status.”
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Even if the Commerce Department finds that solar panels from Southeast Asia are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duty actions against Chinese exports, no AD/CVD will be collected for the next two years, the Biden administration announced on June 6. Trade lawyers were astonished by the action, which is based on the authority to temporarily suspend AD/CVD when imports are needed to respond to natural disasters "or other emergencies."
Even if the Commerce Department finds that solar panels from Southeast Asia are circumventing antidumping and countervailing duty actions against Chinese exports, no AD/CVD will be collected for the next two years, the Biden administration announced on June 6. Trade lawyers were astonished by the action, which is based on the authority to temporarily suspend AD/CVD when imports are needed to respond to natural disasters "or other emergencies."
HP, like most PC vendors, expects it will continue to have strong commercial PC demand for the rest of calendar 2022, with “some softening of the consumer businesses,” said CEO Enrique Lores on an earnings call Tuesday for fiscal Q2 ended April 30. Revenue in HP’s Personal Systems segment grew 9% to $11.5 billion -- “our highest Q2 revenue ever, reflecting the durability of PC demand,” he said.
The Department of Homeland Security should permanently shutter its disinformation board, Republicans told us last week after the director resigned (see 2205180051). Democrats also had critical comments about the board’s rollout, following free speech objections from Republicans (see 2205050048).
The Department of Homeland Security should permanently shutter its disinformation board, Republicans told us last week after the director resigned (see 2205180051). Democrats also had critical comments about the board’s rollout, following free speech objections from Republicans (see 2205050048).
The Department of Homeland Security’s disinformation board director announced her resignation Wednesday after weeks of Republican criticism claiming the agency’s board was attempting to police online speech (see 2205040061). Nina Jankowicz announced her departure, saying mischaracterizations of the board’s work had become a distraction to the DHS’ work, and she will leave to return to work in the “public sphere.” The board’s work will be “paused” during a monthslong review of the board by the Homeland Security Advisory Council, a DHS spokesperson said. With a 75-day deadline, the assessment will focus on how DHS can “most effectively and appropriately address disinformation that poses a threat to our country, while protecting free speech, civil rights, civil liberties, and privacy,” the agency said. HSAC will review how DHS can “achieve greater transparency across our disinformation-related work and increase trust with the public and other key stakeholders.” The board has been “grossly and intentionally mischaracterized: it was never about censorship or policing speech in any manner,” DHS said. “It was designed to ensure we fulfill our mission to protect the homeland, while protecting core Constitutional rights. However, false attacks have become a significant distraction from the Department’s vitally important work to combat disinformation that threatens the safety and security of the American people.” FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr tweeted he was “pleased” to hear about the board’s suspension: It’s “important to shut this and all similar efforts down entirely. The core problem is not the people that would serve as the government's Disinformation Czars, its that those jobs should not exist.”
Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., will meet with ranking member Roger Wicker, R-Miss., Monday afternoon for renewed privacy negotiations, a committee member told us last week.