Policy covers legislation and government proposals affecting information: online safety statutes, broadcasting and licensing rules, data protection, ownership limits and public media funding. Explainers state what each measure obliges, which body enforces it and when it applies. For policy staff, media lawyers and organizations that must comply with the result.
Legislation and government proposals on speech, broadcasting, data and online safety, explained by obligation, enforcement body and compliance date.
American platforms now answer to two speech-regulation regimes with incompatible premises, and the conflict is settling into forum fights over jurisdiction rather than a grand legal showdown.
Aleksandr Komarov
The federal rulebook on who may own American broadcast stations survives, but decades of waivers, court losses and deregulation have hollowed out most of its original logic.
Alexandria Lucas