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FCC Boss Brendan Carr ‘Investigating’ Verizon For Not Being Racist Enough
Like many big companies, Verizon eagerly signed up for Trump 2.0 excited to get tax cuts, rubber stamped merger approvals, attacks on organized labor, and oodles of unaccountable subsidies.But as i…
“Carr said in his letter to Comcast earlier this month that the commission would take “fresh action to ensure that every entity the FCC regulates complies with the civil rights protections enshrined in the Communications Act… including by shutting down any programs that promote invidious forms of DEI.” We’ll see if either Verizon or Comcast (historically close GOP allies) have the actual backbone to stand up to the baseless fake inquiries, or if tax cuts, merger approvals, and union busting are more important than basic human rights (knowing both companies well I have my suspicions). This is, of course, the exact sort of radical abuse of government power big companies like Verizon (and the “free market Libertarian” think tanks they fund) have long accused progressive reformers of engaging in (often falsely).
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