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Brendan Carr Is Turning the FCC Into MAGA’s Censoring Machine
Under its new chairman, the FCC is threatening broadcasters and pushing President Donald Trump’s agenda.
In the practiced government kabuki of these events, commissioners spoke, proposals were voted on unanimously, and chairman Brendan Carr, appointed by Donald Trump, ran things smoothly, though his demeanor was rather boisterous. In March, far-right crusader Grover Norquist—the guy who once said he wanted to drown government in a bathtub—was among the ultra-conservatives who signed a lette r begging Carr to dismiss the case, saying it would “constitute regulatory overreach and advance precedent that can be weaponized by future FCCs.” Dude, it’s the current FCC we have to worry about! “A jawboning target cannot simply call the FCC’s bluff,” he wrote, “because the Commission, and the Administration as a whole, enjoy great discretion to kneecap any disobedient company down the road in unrelated contexts, ranging from merger-approval proceedings to litigation settlements to the award of government benefits.”
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