28. Federal Communications Commission · Minor · Needs Congress
Let consumers choose their own content filters and fact checkers
Printed page 849 28. Federal Communications Commission
“The FCC and Congress should work together to formulate rules that empower consumers. … One idea is to empower consumers to choose their own content filters and fact checkers, if any.”
What has happened
- Not started
Neither the FCC nor Congress formulated any such rule. No FCC Federal Register document since 2025-01-20 mentions content filters, fact checkers or user-selected moderation, and no 119th-Congress bill found on the subject advanced beyond referral. The Commission opened no proceeding under Section 230 in which "user control" could be given effect (see #2184).
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
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Research notes
Third of the four page 849 legislative-design asks. The Quote’s own hedge (“One idea”) makes this the loosest of them; it is leveled the same way, because a Status measures whether the thing named came into being.
Changes platforms made to their own moderation and fact-checking arrangements are commercial decisions, not rules empowering consumers to choose, and no allowlisted record ties any of them to FCC or congressional action. They are not tracked here.
- Action
- create
- Object
- Rules empowering consumers to choose content filters and fact checkers
- ID
- 2196