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Congress Pressures FCC Inspector General To Investigate Brendan Carr’s Law Braking And Wasting Of Taxpayer Money
You might recall that back when Brendan Carr was an ordinary FCC Commissioner, he was super worried about government overreach. He was so worried, that he would attack literally any effort previous…
When he’s not busy dismantling all FCC consumer protections, Carr has enjoyed threatening companies seeking merger approval unless they kiss the President’s ass, whether that means promising to be more racist ( Verizon) or avoiding any journalism faintly critical of our mad, idiot king ( CBS). The letter urges Damelin to dig into FCC records to more closely examine what kind of pressure Carr put on ABC and local broadcasters in exchange for placing Kimmel on an indefinite hiatus, something he’s trying to pretend he had nothing to do with despite leveraging direct threats on national television. He and Trump’s illegal destruction of the Digital Equity Act(which urged the FCC to investigate longstanding racism in broadband deployment), for example, was only “supported” by the flimsy claim that the inquiry was somehow discriminatory against white people.
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