Post

Or that Brendan Carr, Trump's pick to head the FCC, sent Meta a letter right after the election telling Zuck that fact checking was against the First Amendment and Carr was poised to take action if Meta kept fact checking. www.fcc.gov/sites/defaul...

fcc.govfcc.gov
Ricardo Sanchez@ricardodsanchez.bsky.social

Also, I'm surprised Zuckerberg discussed pressure from the Biden team but never mentioned how Trump threatened to throw him in jail. Why wasn’t that brought up in his conversation with Joe Rogan? It seems like a pretty important detail to leave out. www.politico.com/news/2024/08...

He will be worse. Even Pai refused to use FCC authority to threaten broadcasters that didn't bend the knee

2 reposts25 likes

He's Pai without principles. Pai for all his problems did have an underlying set of principles, of the traditional conservative variety. Carr just seeks power.

He's been so obvious about it too, with those suck-up op-eds criticizing Dems for slow rural broadband rollout but BEAD isn't the whole game, and it takes a hot minute to set up a huge federal program, especially when most of it is happening in the middle of a pandemic. Meanwhile,

Republicans let the ACP subsidies lapse & Pai was happy to let telecoms self-report rural broadband reach & lay slow DSL instead of fiber. Carr also whined about the FCC rejecting Starlink for RDOF funds, but it was too expensive & not reliable enough yet then (and many still have complaints).