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Gormo • yesterday at 9:19 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

What statute gives authority to the FCC to "make up rules for marketplaces"? My understanding is that they only have authority over actual broadcasting.


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someguydave • yesterday at 10:10 PM

the Secure and Trusted Communications Networks Act of 2019 (47 USC 154 1601 ff) is one place, among others, that Congress gave the FCC the authority to make rules about importing and selling electronics

charcircuit • yesterday at 11:01 PM

>Such regulations shall be applicable to the manufacture, import, sale, *offer for sale*, or shipment of such devices and home electronic equipment and systems, and to the use of such devices.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/302a