Legal Niches

FCC Details Participants of Secret Meetings

By james_fudge

Earlier this week, the FCC held at least two "secret meetings" with telecom industry representatives to discuss open Internet rules aka Net Neutrality. Reform group Free Press was so incensed about the secrecy of these meetings that it published an ad in the Washington Post taking FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and President Obama to task. Free Press and other groups are deeply concerned that the FCC is giving too much input to telecoms and there is some concern that these types of "back door" meetings could lead to all kinds of shenanigans.

Even if those concerns are unwarranted, handling it in this manner may lead to at least an "appearance of impropriety" on the part of the FCC. Similar complaints were lodged against congress when it was putting together the financial reform bill because it gave lobbyists a chance to provide input without full public disclosure. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on June 24, 2010 (boomark / email).