Tribe says Congress cannot muzzle telcos. (attorney Laurence Tribe says telephone companies can enter cable television industry)
Multichannel News, April, 1990 by Aversa, Jeannine
Tribe Says Congress Cannot Muzzle Telcos WASHINGTON - The constitutionality of a House draft bill that would lay out how the nation's seven regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs) would be permitted to participate in the information services business - which by broadest definition includes cable television - was vigorously debated by two key communications attorneys during a House telecommunications subcommittee hearing on the issue.
Renowned First Amendment attorney Laurence Tribe of Harvard University argued that the First Amendment forbids Congress from enacting a law that would in any way limit the Baby Bells' freedom of speech through restricted participation in the information services business. "The government has no business deciding who or...
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