We begin with a developing story at 5 00. Information warfare against the united states. The heart of an extraordinary federal indictment today for 13 russians acushioned of working together to interfere with the 2016 president ial election. Todays indictments are the first to directly link russians to meddling in the race for the white house. 13 russians and three Russian Companies are charged with spreading distrust about the u. S. President ial candidates. No americans were knowing participants in the plot and says there is no allegation that the plot affected the outcome of the election. The indictment says they posed as americans on social media to lure American Voters to Campaign Rallies and spread misinformation. 13 russians charged in a wide range of conspiracy. They conducted what they called Information Warfare against the united states. With the stated goal of spreading distrust to the candidates and the political system. These are the first indictments tied to election inte
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Thank you, mr. Chairman. You both agree to facilitate broadband deployment will take reform, is that correct . Yes. Commissioner pei, you mentioned principles. With respect to my broadband plan its a twofold plan and it would be targeted changes to the rules to allow rate of return rate carriers for the costs they incur for deploying in rural areas and that support only extends to voice service, and secondly creating a voluntary path where rate of return carriers could at their option get into similar connect america fund and obviously the socalled model in that regard is not perfect but nonetheless if the rate of return carriers find it to be preferable they should be given a limited window to do that. Thank you chairman wheeler, these are questions for Rural Service so its really appealing to the constituents in the state of illinois. The issue of dropped calls, and i go to the familyowned companies or the coops still out there, and its the enter immediate airy carriers, can you tell
With media organizations from the early caucus and primary states are sponsoring this forum and following the live forum, you can provide your input by joining our callin program and adding comments on facebook and twieter on cspan, cspan radio and cspan. Org. On tuesday federal Communications Chair tom wheeler and commissioner aji pay testified before the communications and technology. They discussed rural access to broadband and over the top Video Services. This is almost three hours. Well call to order the subcommittee communications and technology and i want to welcome everyone here today and wish a very good morning to chairman wheeler and commissioner pay, delighted to have you back before the subcommittee again this year. We appreciate the work youre doing at the fcc and i look forward to your testimony and our opportunities to pursue some issues. At the risk of sounding a bit like a broken record, however i continue to be concerned with the commissionys failure to adhere to sou
Been completely unhelpful. In may of this year the Enforcement Bureau says they intend that the broadband providers should enemploy Privacy Protections. What does that mean . I have no idea. I sp prks isps have no idea. I have no idea. I would rather have let the experts who have protected consumers handle this issue based on law that you have given them. They have the expertise to handle these issues, correct . Expertise and legal authority, yes. The chairman talked another issue about privacy and edge providers. Chairman wheeler the Consumer Interest Group filed a petition to ask you to oppose a Consumer Privacy protections. When are we going to see your response . Do you believe providers should have a different standard of protection than isps . Thank you very much. The commission has for decades been enforcing privacy on the telecommunications carriers. Its not as though we fell into this patch. Theres a long history of Privacy Protection regarding telecommunications carriers. In