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The Federal Communications Commission fired back at a federal appeals court that said the regulatory agency's enforcement of its indecency rules was "unconstitutionally vague" and had a "chilling effect."

While social media use has grown dramatically across all age groups, older users have been especially enthusiastic over the past year about embracing new networking tools. Social networking use among Internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled -- from 22% in April 2009 to 42% in May 2010.

The Government Accountability Office discusses changes in the wireless industry since 2000, stakeholders' perceptions of regulatory policies and industry practices, and the strategies Federal Communications Commission uses to monitor competition.

The big get bigger. A new report on the cell phone industry from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) opens with the line, "The biggest changes in the wireless industry since 2000 have been consolidation among wireless carriers and increased use of wireless services by consumers." Both parts of that sentence are significant.

The Google-Verizon network neutrality proposal is a compromise between the desire of content providers to ensure that all content streams are treated equally and that of access providers to maintain flexibility to manage their networks.