The former Republican regulator Brendan Carr was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the Federal Communications Commission, who has publicly endorsed the approaching administration’s plans to axe regulation, pursue Big Tech, and punish TV networks for democratic bias.
Carr, who now sits on the committee, is expected to stir up a quiet firm that licenses airwaves for television and TV, regulates telephone costs, and promotes the spread of home internet. Trump made it clear that he wanted the agency to revoke commentators ‘ licenses for unfair policy before the election.
Carr, 45, was the creator of a book on the FCC in the traditional Project 2025 preparing document, in which he argued that the agency may also control the largest tech companies, such as Apple, Meta, Google and Microsoft. ” The censorship gang must remain dismantled”, Carr said last week on X.
According to telecommunications lawyers and analysts, Carr could significantly change the separate agency, expanding its scope, and using it as a political tool for the right. They predicted that Carr may push for the company’s legal authority to be over companies like Meta and Google, launching a brutal conflict with Silicon Valley.
Carr wo n’t have free rein to make changes. The biggest players in governing technology are the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. Legal experts said that to increase the company’s regulatory supervision over businesses like Google and Meta, which are not classified as communications service, had likely require new policy. Television and radio stations are not permitted to be penalized for their editorial judgements, according to the FCC. However, Carr could use the bully pulpit of the organization to force companies, the researchers added. He might also threaten to investigate regulatory failures or prevent mergers.
