FSF's May: Get Rid of the Public Interest Standard
The public interest standard “grants FCC officials too much unconstrained discretion in today's competitive media and telecommunications environment,” wrote Free State Foundation President Randolph May in a blog post Friday. Congress should update the Communications Act and “jettison” the public…
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interest standard, he said, arguing that the economic circumstances and viewpoint diversity concerns that were used to justify the standard no longer apply. “Today, reliance on the dictates of competitive marketplace forces is much more likely to enhance consumer welfare -- and to be consistent with constitutional free speech and due process dictates -- than reliance on immodest bureaucratic diktats.”