Brendan Carr chosen to head the FCC

[allegorical oracle]

WaPo: (used msn version of story due to paywall at original site)

President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday he was naming Brendan Carr as the next Federal Communications Commission chairman, positioning the regulatory agency to do battle against social media companies and TV broadcasters that Republicans portray as too liberal.

Carr, 45, the senior Republican among the FCC’s five commissioners, has vowed in recent days to take on what he called a “censorship cartel” including Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft. Earlier this year, he laid out an aggressive agenda for the FCC in Project 2025, a conservative proposal for Trump’s second term developed by the Heritage Foundation.

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Carr began making moves even before he was named to take charge under the incoming Trump administration. On Wednesday, he sent a letter to Apple chief executive Tim Cook, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft’s Satya Nadella and Alphabet’s Sundar Pichai, warning that he believed they were improperly censoring some viewpoints. He wrote that the new Trump administration may review their companies’ activities.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-picks-brendan-carr-who-laid-out-agenda-in-project-2025-as-fcc-chairman/ar-AA1ufVs8?

[onenote]

1. i've practiced communications law for over four decades. This guy is the biggest douche ever.

He claims to be a protector of the first amendment, but he wants to use the government to regulate the speech and editorial judgments of private companies while remaining completely silent when Trump and others threaten the licenses of broadcasters that criticize him.

I'm not sure the other repub on the Commission would go along with everything Carr would try but his term ended in June and because he can continue to serve until he is re-confirmed for a new term or a replacement is confirmed, he will be under a lot of pressure to conform to Carr's agenda if he wants to stay on the Commission. And then there is the third repub spot on the Commission.Right now there are three Democrats but Jessica Rosenworcel, the current chair, will undoubtedly step down in January -- her term ends in June anyway.