Heritage Foundation's
Project 2025

Chapter 28 - Federal Communications Commission

• Eliminate court-added immunities to Section 230
• Impose transparency rules on Big Tech companies
• Support legislation to reform Section 230
• Apply antidiscrimination provisions to Big Tech
• Empower consumers to choose their own content filters and fact checkers
• Strengthen protections against young children accessing social media
• Require Big Tech to contribute to the Universal Service Fund
• Ban TikTok on national security grounds
• Expand the FCC's Covered List of banned communications equipment
• Close loopholes allowing banned entities to operate on an "unregulated" basis
• Publish a foreign adversary transparency list
• Fully fund the federal "rip and replace" program
• Launch a Clean Standards Initiative to counter Chinese influence in tech standards
• Stop U.S. businesses from aiding China's AI development goals
• Refill America's spectrum pipeline for commercial wireless services
• Facilitate better coordination on spectrum issues between federal agencies
• Modernize infrastructure rules to streamline deployment of wireless and wireline networks
• Expedite FCC review and approval of satellite launch applications
• End wasteful broadband spending policies
• Adopt a national coordinating strategy for broadband efforts
• Correct the FCC's regulatory trajectory towards less regulation
• Eliminate many of the FCC's media ownership rules
• Conduct a top-to-bottom review of FCC regulations to rescind "overly cumbersome or outdated" rules
• Create a more market-friendly regulatory environment for telecommunications