key concepts policy vs law self regulation technical standards FCC freedom of speech and media privacy and media patent trademark copyright telecommunications act of 1996 Policy is not law and regulation tends to come in after law let them do it Frequently industries go for self regulation and we Same with technical standards We have had a pattern with the US government stepping in to push companies do something or make them sit down and talk to each other but not always Sometimes we have had a debate over technical standards that was not always clear Also had discussions about what to regulate in the FCC like freedom of speech indecency obscenity privacy How to implement that How do we proceed with patent and trademarks and copyrights The last major policy that went through congress that we regularly deregulated we haven t really thought or deregulated
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