Digital Liberty advocates for a consumer-driven market free from heavy regulation or taxation of the Internet, technology, telecommunications, video games, and media.

FCC

Commissioner Gomez Calls on Congress to Restore FCC Spectrum Auction Authority

By Lawson Faulkner On Tuesday, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez called upon Congress to renew the agency’s spectrum auctioning authority, a licensing power that has remained in limbo for the past year and a half. Addressing the Americas Spectrum Management Conference, Commissioner Gomez explained that this absence of authority has…

Broadband

House Oversight Sheds Light on Biden-Harris Administration’s Broadband Deployment Failures

By Lawson Faulkner On Thursday, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held a hearing titled “A Legacy of Incompetence: Consequences of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Policy Failures.” During the hearing, lawmakers took aim at the disastrous mismanagement of the $42.5 billion Broadband, Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, which…

Uncategorized

USF Announces Another Rate Hike for Q4 2024

By Lawson Faulkner On Thursday, the FCC announced yet another rate hike for its Universal Service Fund (USF), a controversial program responsible for subsidizing phone service. For service providers and consumers alike, the growth of this quarterly burden appears to be unending, signaling a need for substantive USF…

Uncategorized

New U.S.-Canada Privacy Pact Raises Censorship Concerns

By Lawson Faulkner Last Wednesday, FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne, signaling an intent to “strengthen information sharing and enforcement cooperation between the two regulators.” However, the vague nature of the agreement has raised questions about the implications of…