Corcos, C. (2010, November 22). The FCC and the First Amendment. Media Law Prof Blog. Retrieved November 30, 2010, from http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/media_law_prof_blog/2010/11/the-fcc-and-the-first-amendment.html
Excerpt from the 1st paragraph of the abstract:
This article describes the Federal Communications Commission’s new theory of the First Amendment, as articulated in the agency’s decision sanctioning Comcast for blocking certain peer-to-peer file sharing traffic, later reversed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The article proposes a unified theory with which to analyze First Amendment challenges to proposed regulation of discriminatory denials of access to broadcast, cable, or Internet media. It builds on my previous research into the democracy-promoting implications of decentralized, collaborative Internet media as opposed to traditional media’s top-down model.
