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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

Nice bit in this WAPO ballroom donor story where FCC boss Brendan Carr launches a bogus investigation into Dish Network then leverages it to force Charlie Ergen to shell out more for Trump's ballroom (the pressure on Ergen was also beneficial to AT&T and Elon Musk)

Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

Carr genuinely never does anything that's truly in the public interest. Everything is either to fuel the authoritarian mission or to coddle the interests of Republican allied corporate giants like Securus, Musk, or AT&T.

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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

This con goes back even further. to justify their rubber-stamping of the competition and job killing T-Mobile/Sprint Merger, the first Trump admin helped Dish pretend they'd create a new 5G wireless network the second Trump admin then undermined that effort to transfer spectrum to Musk and AT&T

techdirt.comThe Trump Admin’s Dish Network Con Reaches Its Ultimate Conclusion: Failure, Bankruptcy, And Rich New Spectrum Holdings For Elon MuskBack in 2019, the Trump DOJ and FCC cobbled together a dumb plan to try and hide the problems created by their rubber stamping of the competition-eroding T-Mobile and Sprint merger: they’d pretend …