> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Federal Communications Commission - URL: https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/federal-communications-commission/ - Published: 1999-01-02T15:56:00.000Z - Updated: 2025-01-02T15:39:30.000Z - Author: Liam Sturgess - Tags: Profiles, #docs, #organization The **Federal Communications Commission (FCC)** is an American regulatory agency based in Washington, D.C. It is an independent agency of the [United States Federal Government](https://www.whiteroseintelligence.com/United-States-Federal-Government). ## History In 2015, the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University published a report by Norm Alster titled *[Captured Agency: How the Federal Communications Commission is Dominated by the Industries it Presumably Regulates](https://web.archive.org/web/20231007054302/https://ethics.harvard.edu/files/center-for-ethics/files/capturedagency%5Falster.pdf),* describing the FCC as a "captured agency" compromised by its financial ties to the telecommunications industry.[\[1\]](#fn1) ## External links - [SourceWatch](https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Federal%5FCommunications%5FCommission) - [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal%5FCommunications%5FCommission) - [Wikispooks](https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Federal%5FCommunications%5FCommission) --- 1. *Harvard Press Book on Telecom Industry Influence To The US FCC - Captured Agency by Norm Alster.* Environmental Health Trust. Retrieved October 7, 2023, from [↩︎](#fnref1)