Kirk Arner
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Don't Renew the FCC's Failed COVID Subsidy
Congress is considering new, non-emergency spending programs that would exacerbate the federal deficit.
End Comment Fraud at the Cost of a Stamp
The New York Attorney General’s office found that of more than 22 million comments filed in response to the Federal Communication Commission’s hotly contested 2017 “net neutrality” repeal, nearly 18 million were fraudulent. A 19-year-old computer science student filed nearly eight million of them using automated software. According to the Administrative Procedure Act, federal agencies like the FCC must give notice to the public when they propose to write new rules. Then the public can comment on those proposals.