from al Jazeera
United States President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Brendan Carr, a Republican known for his criticism of Big Tech, to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Carr, who has served as an FCC commissioner since 2017, will end the “regulatory onslaught” that has held back job creators and innovators, and ensure that the communications agency delivers for rural areas, Trump said in a statement on Sunday...
... In a chapter of “Project 2025,” a blueprint for overhauling the federal government produced by The Heritage Foundation, Carr argued that Section 230 of the Communications Act should be limited to crack down on what conservatives say is widespread viewpoint discrimination by tech platforms...
.. Liberals have expressed alarm at Carr’s views, expressing concern that he intends to politicise the FCC and arguing that Section 230, which shields internet providers from liability over the content they carry, is essential to a free and open internet...
... Max Burns, a Democratic strategist, said that Carr was aligned with Trump’s plans to use the FCC as a “weapon against news networks the president doesn’t like”.
“Get ready,” Burns said in a post on X...
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Match made in heaven! (or more likely, hell).
ReplyDeleteOverseeing all this for "wholesome content" will of course be the new dni head appointee, on top of all the 17 alphabet/acronym intel/spy/security/ , keeping u safe (and quiet.....especially quiet, or else!) with all that TIA
Notice how all the slobbering psychofant DrumpfTards waxing delirious over his every appointment announcement have strangely not mentioned J.A.!
So the fcc is just one cog in this Leviathan .
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-17-intelligence-agencies-20170112-story.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Intelligence_Community