Christopher Terry

Hey friends:

I am looking suggestions for good academic or legal literature on Safe Harbor and/or external request content take-down models.

Proposed or implemented, it doesn't matter, I am interested. Its for my policy course for spring.

Carr is over reaching here.

Brendan Carr’s FCC launches probe into BBC’s Trump edit While Trump is planning to sue.

Carr extends his content regulation non-authority to the BBC.

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YouTube’s Right-Wing Stars Fuel Boom in Politically Charged Ads By Davey Alba Priyanjana Bengani Leon Yin Ashley Carman Julia Love Rachael Dottle Elena Mejía Technology Big Tech November 20, 2025 On YouTube’s conservative airwaves, podcast hosts tout products that let people buy into the MAGA crowd: Republican Red Winery vintages for toasting the “silent majority;” Black Rifle Coffee for caffeinating gun owners; XX-XY Athletics for workout clothes symbolizing opposition to the “lunacy of the left social agenda.”

The popularity of YouTube podcasts among conservatives is driving a boom in small businesses tailoring ads to their millions of listeners, paying hosts like Joe Rogan and Candace Owens to read out promotions in the hope that fans will place orders. The phenomenon has enriched both the hosts and YouTube, supporting further growth of the businesses using ideology to sell. A Bloomberg analysis of host-read ads across nearly 1,000 videos from eight of the platform’s top right-leaning podcasters found that advertisers on the shows routinely tapped into political identity in marketing. At least one host-read ad with a political message appeared in 91% of videos reviewed.

NEW: For months, my colleagues and I dug into YouTube's conservative airwaves and found a flourishing network of host-read ads on right-leaning podcasts. This phenomenon has enriched hosts, YouTube, and businesses that use ideology to sell. bloom.bg/3Kaio9w

29 AGs Want Social Media Addiction Fight Decided In 1 Trial - Law360 A coalition of 29 state attorneys general Wednesday urged a California federal judge presiding over social-media addiction multidistrict litigation to consolidate state law claims into a single jury t...

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4 Groups Urge FCC To Reject Charter, Cox Merger - Law360 Four public interest groups petitioned the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday to block the $34.5 billion merger agreement between cable giants Charter and Cox.

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Nexstar Asks FCC To Waive Ownership Cap In Tegna Takeover - Law360 TV station giant Nexstar has asked the Federal Communications Commission to sign off on its pending acquisition of Tegna Inc. even though the $6.2 billion deal would breach existing FCC limits on nati...

Clear Channel II: Electric Media Consolidation Bugaloo:

"The idea of combining Nexstar and Tegna under existing FCC rules...has triggered opposition, as the new behemoth would serve well over half of households at around 54.5%."

It'll work this time...honest!

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This is sure to...um...work out exactly as promised...or something.

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Cue the requests to explain how ABC as a network only operates a handful of O+Os and doesn't have a license.

It'll be like Jimmy Kimmel all over again.

SCOTUS: “the First Amendment prohibits government officials from relying on the threat of invoking legal sanctions and other means of coercion to achieve the suppression of disfavored speech”

TRUMP: My FCC Chair will make ABC reporters stop asking me about Epstein

BREAKING: Judge Rejects FTC Suit Over Meta's Instagram, WhatsApp Buys - Law360 A federal antitrust campaign against major technology platforms suffered a significant blow Tuesday with a D.C. federal judge's rejection of a Federal Trade Commission suit accusing Meta Platforms of ...

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Accepted in March and available online now: "The Failure of FCC Diversity Initiatives: A Postmortem and a Proposal."

13 Indiana Journal of Law and Social Equality 353

Co authored with David Pritchard. www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcont...

Supreme Court Won't Hear School Loudspeaker Prayer Case - Law360 The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the appeal of a Florida private Christian school over the state athletic association's decision denying the school the use of a loudspeaker for pra...

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Holyoak Leaves FTC For Interim US Atty In Utah - Law360 Melissa Holyoak left the Federal Trade Commission on Monday to become Utah's interim U.S. attorney, leaving the FTC down to two commissioners, both Republicans, in the Trump administration's latest us...

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NetChoice Sues Virginia To Stop Social Media Limits For Kids - Law360 A trade group representing Facebook, X and other tech companies on Monday sued the state of Virginia over a new law that limits children's access to social media, its latest lawsuit against state gove...

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Ohio Asks To Revive Google Common Carrier Case - Law360 The Ohio Attorney General's Office told a state appeals court that Google's search engine meets all the requirements to be declared a common carrier, arguing that a lower court misapplied the law by f...

Sometimes media law and policy is a collection of not understanding the law in the same way the Guardians of the Galaxy Soundtracks are amazing collections of greatest hits.

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December 17 Comment Date Set in 2022 Quadrennial Review Looking at Local Ownership Rules – What is at Stake, Particularly for Radio? Wasting no time following the reopening of the government, the FCC has published its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the 2022 Quadrennial Review in the

December 17 Comment Date Set in 2022 Quadrennial Review Looking at Local Ownership Rules – What is at Stake, Particularly for Radio?

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It was definitely up there with SOPA/PIPA, but with more direct visible impact on the "kids."

Google, TikTok, Meta Fight Calif. Law Over Kids' Online Feeds - Law360 TikTok, Meta and Google filed separate suits against California Attorney General Rob Bonta in federal court on Thursday seeking to block the state from enforcing a new law's requirement for parental c...

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Broadband Usage 3Q 2025 OpenVault recently published its Broadband Insights Report for the end of the third quarter of 2025. OpenVault is documenting the continued growth in broadband usage by U.S. households. One of the …

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"One of the most interesting things about the second quarter this year is that the overall average broadband usage was lower than the second quarter, something that hasn’t happened since 2019."

Do you ever just stop and imagine explaining our current timeline to someone, say yourself even, from like 2011 and wonder what that conversation would look and sound like to them?

When you understand that he just wants to be an asshole who gets to do news hits on Fox News being an asshole talking tough about regulating speech he hates rather than say doing any actual policy, then you understand Brendan Carr.

He's not, nor has he ever been, more complicated than that.

Federal Government Reopens with FCC Decision to Provide More Time to Submit Delayed Filings – and Watch for Comment Deadlines in Major Proceedings on Media Ownership and the ATSC 3.0 Transition With the federal government shutdown finally ending yesterday, broadcasters need to be prepared to take steps to comply with FCC rules whose enforcement

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Ex-FCC Members Say Carr's Abusing News Distortion Policy - Law360 Nearly a dozen former Federal Communications Commission officials — including seven once-commissioners — told the agency that it ought to repeal its news distortion policy "in full," accusing the head...

Sort of.

The News Distortion policy was always problematic. The only reason we haven't had this discussion until now is that the policy was basically a footnote in FCC content regulations.

Carr weaponized that footnote against speech he hates.

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Global Internet Freedom Declines for 15th Consecutive Year | TechPolicy.Press Despite funding cuts, Freedom House delivered its annual report on how countries are performing on measures of digital rights and internet freedom.

According to the 2025 Freedom on the Net report, global internet freedom declined for the 15th consecutive year. Of 72 countries assessed, conditions deteriorated in 28, while 17 registered overall gains. The US was among the countries that experienced the most significant declines.

Otherwise known as "regulation by drooping eyelid", the news distortion policy was basically an interesting footnote in a media law or FCC regulation textbook until it was weaponized by Carr earlier this year against speech he hates.

Adult Webcam Owner Says Illegal Thailand Studio Cost $1.5M - Law360 A Florida adult webcam operator moved his family to Thailand and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars setting up a studio only to learn that production in the country is illegal, his business claims...

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FCC To Face Senate Oversight Following Kimmel Controversy - Law360 For the first time in half a decade, the full Senate Commerce Committee will convene for an oversight hearing, this time to place an examining eye on the FCC after the head of the agency said ABC coul...

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Regional Cable Biz Looks Toward Permit Reform Priorities - Law360 Independent cable providers want the Federal Communications Commission to wield its statutory powers to slash state and local rules that their main trade group considers impediments to broadband deplo...

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