The Federal Communications Commission has the power to approve or deny the transfers of broadcast licenses. What’s it doing with that power? Just extracting agreements from firms on matters that the agency would otherwise have no power over—like programming decisions, hiring practices, and net neutrality compliance. And since the agreements are “voluntary” they are “practically unappealable,” write Brent Skorup and Christopher Koopman.
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