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Brendan Carr Makes It Clear That He's Eager to Be America's Top Censor
When Donald Trump announced that he was appointing current FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr to be the next chair of the FCC, it was no surprise. Nor was it a surprise that Trump tried to play up that …
The bottom line: The clear message from Carr here is that if any TV station platforms speech he disagrees with, he will abuse his power as FCC chair to demand costly concessions from them in order to help those he supports. Perhaps the biggest impediment to any effort to have the FCC write definitive rules about the meaning of Section 230 is the Supreme Court’s rejection of Chevron last term in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo. Filed Under: 1st amendment, authority, brendan carr, broadcast licenses, censorship, content moderation, equal time, fact checking, fcc, free speech, loper bright, section 230 Companies: apple, google, meta, microsoft, nbc, newsguard
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