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well... Federal COMMUNICATIONS Commission. They have whatever power congress gives them so to enforce whatever mandates and laws they have to. Since ISP's are in the business of electronic COMMUNICATIONS and congress needs someone to enforce the wiretap law, guess who gets the job? |
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 kamm
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Brooklyn, NY | said by Fatal Vector:Federal COMMUNICATIONS Commission. They have whatever power congress gives them so to enforce whatever mandates and laws they have to. Since ISP's are in the business of electronic COMMUNICATIONS and congress needs someone to enforce the wiretap law, guess who gets the job? Cut the crap. Originally it was created to regulate airwaves. Congress cannot force it to act unconstitutionally. |
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| said by kamm:[Cut the crap. Originally it was created to regulate airwaves. Congress cannot force it to act unconstitutionally. Actually congress can. FCC's scope, like any government agency is dictated by congress. Technically nothing stops Congress from putting them in charge school lunches. |
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Friendswood, TX | reply to kamm
When the Federal Communications Act was adopted in 1934 the FCC was created. The act consolidated all telecommunication regulation for both wired and wireless services. |
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Ummm...
Congress makes the laws and so, gives the FCC whatever authority it needs to administer those laws. The constitution has nothing to do with it.
Only if the supreme court holds a law as unconstitutional can the FCC's authority be stripped away.
You really dont understand how the government and legal system woeks, do you?
The FCC's predicessor was CREATED by congress in the Communications act of 1934 for regulating the airwaves. However, the communications act has been amended many times by congress as needed. The communications act (as amended) is what gives the FCC it's basic authority to regulate the things it doesCongress can make the FCC do whatever it wants, since congress created it by enabling the statutes that created it and gives it it's authority.
Who is it, do you think that CREATES government departments? |
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