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Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

the 1949 FCC "broadcast news distortion" rule Carr is threatening to abuse is supposed to be used in clear instances of something like a politician bribing a news outlet to twist coverage it is, you may be surprised to learn, not applicable just because polls show the president is a corrupt loser

Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

I spent 25 years listening to Republican and libertarian think tanks warn that the FCC shouldn't have any real authority to protect consumers because it might be abused a quarter century later, and the biggest threat we've ever seen is a regulatory captured corrupt Republican lickspittle

Karl Bode
@karlbode.com

Carr loves the press coverage that makes it seem like he's an important guy doing important and scary stuff but he's just a yipping chihuahua and the censorship saber rattling obscures the damage he's done to consumer protection and media consolidation (which the press couldn't care less about)

politico.comBrendan Carr takes up Trump’s ‘fake polls’ fightThe FCC chair’s threats could mark an expansion of the FCC’s authority, which has not historically involved policing political polls.

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Wizzy Probs
@wizzyprobs.bsky.social

maybe "the press" shouldn't be used as a synonym for "giant media conglomerates that are run by actual nazis" and depend on media consolidation and vulture capital destruction