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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 13:07:31 -0500
From: Bill Horne <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Disinformation Report Suggests Major Legal Reforms
by Mark Sableman
We're suffering from "information disorder," according to a *report
recently issued through the Aspen Institute. That's not news. But how to solve
this problem is the big issue, and the commission's answer is that it
will require substantial legal changes, as well as action by platforms,
professionals, and academics.
* <
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/publications/commission-on-information-disorder-final-report/>
Legal responses to our disinformation pandemic are controversial.
Traditional free speech advocates balk at speech restrictions based on
undesirable content, and partisans on both the right and left worry that
new laws will inhibit the content they want.
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/it-and-internet/1134804/disinformation-report-suggests-major-legal-reforms?email_access=on
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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2021 13:16:06 -0500
From: Bill Horne <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: FCC's November Meeting Agenda Focuses On Enabling Text- to-988
For Suicide Prevention And Spectrum Access To Close The Digital Divide
by Debra McGuire Mercer and Joshua Guyan
The FCC released a light agenda for its next Commission Open Meeting,
scheduled for November 18, 2021. The agency will consider a Second
Report and Order to require covered text providers to support text
messaging to 988 by routing those texts messages to the National
Suicide Prevention Lifeline ("Lifeline"). The FCC will next address a
Further Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ("FNPRM") to adopt an incentive
program to encourage licensees to make spectrum available to small
carriers and Tribal Nations, as well as to carriers seeking to expand
wireless services in rural areas. The FCC will also review a Notice of
Proposed Rulemaking ("NPRM") to assess whether FM and Low Power FM
("LPFM") broadcast radio license applicants can verify directional
antenna patterns by computer modeling instead of by taking physical
measurements. The FCC will close its meeting by considering a
Declaratory Ruling and Order ("Order") that would grant Kn=C3=A9is, a
French private satellite operator, with access to the United States
market so that it can support connectivity for Internet of Things
("IoT") devices and improved data collection.
https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/telecoms-mobile-cable-communications/1132174/fcc39s-november-meeting-agenda-focuses-on-enabling-text-to-988-for-suicide-prevention-and-spectrum-access-to-close-the-digital-divide?email_access=on
