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Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr Harasses Google For Not Carrying Right Wing Religious Programming
As somebody who has covered the telecom and media industries professionally for decades, there’s simply of no limit of problems in both sectors competent federal regulators could be taking ai…
You’ll recall we went through something similar when DirecTV was accused of “censorship” because they refused to carry OAN, an unhinged and barely watched right wing propaganda network pretending to be journalism. Carr has no legal leverage to force a streaming TV provider to do anything, but he dresses up his whining as if it’s a very serious good faith inquiry to “better understand the nature of carriage policies in the virtual MVPD sector.” But as is always the case with authoritarianism (or say, Bespin’s gas mining trade deal with the Empire), most of these companies are quickly figuring out they may have bitten off more than they can chew.
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