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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: What is the FCC thing in the USA that people are talking about?
gpt
It is the Federal Communications Commission.  A US agency originally charged with regulating over-the-air broadcast of radio waves.  It has come to govern other forms of communications distribution, such as telephone.

While the regulations it puts in place are generally useful, it is widely considered out-of-touch, slow, and in the pocket of telecommunications companies.