Kristian Stout Quoted in Communications Daily on FCC Cybersecurity Rollback

Kristian Stout November 20, 2025

Kristian Stout, ICLE Director of Innovation Policy, was quoted in an Communications Daily article on the FCC’s decision to roll back its Salt Typhoon order and the larger disagreement over how the agency should approach cybersecurity and carrier responsibilities. Read the full article here.

The “core problem” with Salt Typhoon “wasn’t the absence of an FCC-administered framework — it was the inherent difficulty of securing sprawling, heterogeneous networks against a sophisticated state actor,” emailed Kristian Stout, innovation policy director for the International Center for Law & Economics. Industry already has “the strongest possible incentive structure,” since no carrier “wants Chinese intelligence services anywhere near its systems.”