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FCC Chair Brendan Carr taking first steps in eroding key legal protection enjoyed by Big Tech
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is taking the first steps in eroding a key legal protection enjoyed by Big Tech.
Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr is taking the first steps in eroding a key legal protection enjoyed by Big Tech, which if successful has the potential of costing some of the most profitable companies in the world billions of dollars in market value, the Post has learned. Since being picked by President Trump to run the agency, Carr’s actions to throttle Paramount’s sale to Skydance over concerns of relentless partisanship at CBS, violating the FCC’s “public interest” rules, have garnered the most attention. Carr believes by purposely calling balls and strikes, tech platforms are acting more like The New York Times than simply a blind arbiter of information, and they should be subject to defamation and other potential liability just like any traditional publisher or business.
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