The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an American regulatory agency based in Washington, D.C. It is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government.
In 2015, the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University published a report by Norm Alster titled Captured Agency: How the Federal Communications Commission is Dominated by the Industries it Presumably Regulates, describing the FCC as a "captured agency" compromised by its financial ties to the telecommunications industry.[1]
Harvard Press Book on Telecom Industry Influence To The US FCC - Captured Agency by Norm Alster. Environmental Health Trust. Retrieved October 7, 2023, from https://web.archive.org/web/20231007165510/https://ehtrust.org/key-issues/harvard-press-book-telecom-industry-influence-us-fcc-captured-agency/ ↩︎