During a speech at the Media Institute, Harvard Law School’s Laurence Tribe contends that the Federal Communications Commission’s attempt to regulate some companies’ privacy protocols and not others' is unconstitutional, The Hill reports. “The FCC’s proposed rules almost certainly could not survive any meaningful degree of First Amendment scrutiny,” he said. “It’s a nakedly anti-consumer measure, rather than a pro-privacy measure.” Tribe adds that the proposals clash with Supreme Court rulings stating free speech cannot be something citizens opt into, the report states. Meanwhile, rural broadband provider advocacy group WTA has written to FCC Secretary Marlene Dortch asking that small internet service providers be more lightly regulated in proposed broadband rules, The Register reports.
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