Telecommunications are “communications” under the 1934 Act regardless whether they use wired or wireless facilities or engage digital or analog technologies. Skip to Main Content.

Limit the Communications Act By Rep. Cliff Stearns. 03/22/2010 05:00 AM EDT. Link Copied. Many aspects of the 1934 Communications Act are still in place.

The Communications Act of 1934 was an attempt by Congress to centralize regulatory power over the then-new technologies of radio and telephone. It invested, as you mentioned, the Federal ...

Amid all the news coverage of the ill-begotten Healthcare.gov website and other Obamacare problems, it would have been easy to overlook a recent announcement from two leaders of the House Energy ...

"Under the vigilance of [Customs and Border Protection], national security begins at America's ports. As Chinese ...

Johnson also pointed to Section 201(b) of the Communications Act, which gave the FCC power to "prescribe such rules and regulations as may be necessary in the public interest to carry out the ...

Signed into law by President Bill Clinton on Feb. 8, 1996, it was the first major revision of telecommunications regulation since the passage of the original Communications Act of 1934, which ...

The Communications Act of 1934 only applies to broadcast airwaves, and doesn't include cable networks or social media companies, which have the power to reject or remove misleading political content.

A U.S. Court of Appeals has killed the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) attempt to reinstate open internet rules, finding that the government agency doesn't have the legal authority to do so.

Congress passed the Communications Act of 1934 to organize federal regulation of telephone, telegraph, and radio communications. The Act also created the FCC.

Section 230 of the Communications Act of 1934 (477 U.S.C. 230) is amended by adding at the end the following: "(g) SUNSET.—This section shall have no force or effect after December 31, 2025." ...