Brendan Carr wants to preserve data caps, punish NBC, and give money to SpaceX.

Summary

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, a Republican with strong conservative views, may be appointed chair under a Trump presidency, shifting the agency’s focus from consumer protections to reducing ISP regulations and targeting Big Tech.

Carr opposes net neutrality and seeks to make tech companies contribute to the FCC’s Universal Service Fund, typically funded by telecoms.

He also supports reinterpreting Section 230 to limit legal protections for social media.

Carr’s stance against data caps regulation and net neutrality aligns with a deregulatory, pro-ISP agenda, sparking concern from consumer advocacy groups.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    33·
    1 month ago

    a Republican with strong conservative views

    Translation from cowardly media speak to accurate English: a Fascist.

    shifting the agency’s focus from consumer protections to reducing ISP regulations and targeting Big Tech.

    Translation: giving it the Louis DeJoy treatment and extorting the big tech companies NOT currently fellating Trump until they start doing so.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    11·
    1 month ago

    and seeks to make tech companies contribute to the FCC’s Universal Service Fund, typically funded by telecoms.

    Has Elon been notified? Because that fight will be a small bit of amusement during this dire time.

    • noride@lemm.ee
      12·
      1 month ago

      Nah, they’ll be a special exemption for “the world’s town square” that lets him weasel out of it.