Here's the link to submit a comment to the FCC:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express

Ran a quick search and found a whole bunch of news articles, but nobody includes info that makes it easy to route your comment. Feels like the beginning of Hitchhiker's Guide:

> It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard.

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Scaled 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

You can also file a comment at the Federal Register for the next 16 days -- It looks like the proposal is 2026-10407

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/26/2026-10...

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mcmcmc 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is the specific proposed rule to reference: https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-seeks-comment-enhanced-know...

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Ajedi32 24 minutes ago | parent [-]

What I find most concerning is that this isn't a bill or law. Unelected government officials at the FTC can apparently just decide to do this.

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IAmBroom 16 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yes, that is the way federal agencies work. Details of complex systems are decided by (hopefully apolitical, public-good-oriented) specialists in the field of interest.

One alternative is that Trump can do it at will. Or, to add a few more steps, Trump can fire the FCC head at will, replace him with a lackey, and then do it at will.

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Ajedi32 6 minutes ago | parent [-]

> [Laws] are decided by (hopefully apolitical, public-good-oriented) specialists in the field of interest

This doesn't sound to me at all like how a democratic country is supposed to function. It feels like you're describing China rather than the US.

> Trump can do it at will.

Which is also not how our constitution is supposed to work. The executive branch is not supposed to be able to make laws, only execute on existing law.

Yes, I know this is how the system works these days. I'm just lamenting how it went so wrong...

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		The intellectual-academic class are having an existential crisis that they've lost the reigns of the unelected bureaucratic apparatus and it is now being wielded against them. They are still confused at how to respond to this as they're certain they couldn't have been wrong about deferring (uh, 'delegate regulatory authority') the power vested in congress and elective representation to themselves. Surprise pikachu when it turns out the "apolitical, public goal oriented specialists' were useful idiots in the process of handing power from congress to the executive.

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kogasa240p 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Thank you

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user3939382 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Open to the possibility that I’m just cynical but my faith is very low that these comment processes are anything more than a regulatory requirement for the illusion of due diligence which legitimizes the actual corporate lobbying and security state actually making the policy.

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		It lets politicians see how unpopular something is and how many votes they will lose.
	▲	JumpCrisscross 39 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		You’re wrong. Even if the regulator ignores them, they allow third parties to bring a suit under the APA.
	▲	pickleglitch 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		They require your name and address, so they will have a nice database of anyone who dares voice an objection.
	▲	mothballed 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I'm nearly certain commenting, at least from my monitoring of commenting on ATF rulemaking, achieves the opposite of what the commenters hope. While there is ~zero chance that commenting can help you, it absolutely is used against you as their lawyers sharpen their claws by crowdsourcing possible sources of challenge and use your comments to predict them and determine how to undermine such positions.