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A Donald Trump advisor who will help set a new direction for the Federal Communications Commission recently argued that most of the FCC should be eliminated.
The commission’s role as an independent agency remains important in one area: licensing radio spectrum, Trump advisor Mark Jamison argued in a blog post last month titled, “Do we need the FCC?” That’s because political interference in spectrum licenses would dampen investment “and could lead to rampant corruption in the form of valuable spectrum space being effectively handed out to political cronies,” he wrote.
But the other functions of the FCC could be eliminated entirely or handed off to other agencies, Jamison wrote:
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Source: Ars Technica – Trump’s FCC advisor wants to eliminate most of the FCC