“Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft and others played a central role in the censorship cartel,” he had already declared on Friday, also on the X network.
“The Orwellian organization called NewsGuard, along with ‘fact-checking’ groups and advertising agencies, have helped enforce one-sided narratives. The censorship cartel must be dismantled,” he added.
For Donald Trump, Brendan Carr “will end the regulatory assault that has paralyzed American job creators and innovators, and ensure that the FCC meets the expectations of rural America,” he said. he further assured in his press release.
Internet access in rural areas is the subject that earned Brendan Carr the support of Elon Musk, appointed by Donald Trump to head a commission for “governmental efficiency”.
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In 2022, in fact, the FCC revoked a subsidy of $885 million which had been granted at the end of 2020 to Starlink, a satellite internet service provider, and one of Elon Musk’s companies.
This funding was supposed to bring high-speed internet to rural homes and businesses, but Starlink and the other company benefiting from these funds “failed to demonstrate that the providers were capable of providing the service promised” , the FCC had indicated.
Brendan Carr then spoke out against this decision.
On October 14, while the electoral campaign was in full swing, he mentioned this decision in an article published in the Wall Street Journal: “in my opinion, this is nothing other than a retaliatory measure regulatory action against one of the left’s main targets: Mr. Musk.
Brendan Carr is also the author of the telecoms chapter of “Project 2025”, a nearly 900-page document developed by the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, and road map for the overhaul of the federal state under Donald Trump .
“The FCC must change course” and “achieve four main goals: regain control of Big Tech, promote national security, unleash economic prosperity, and ensure accountability and good governance of the FCC,” he wrote.
His appointment could also have consequences in the media field.
During his campaign, Donald Trump threatened to withdraw their broadcasting licenses from the CBS and ABC channels, which he accused of favoring Kamala Harris, very complex procedures which would go through the FCC.
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