Brendan Carr has suggested curbing legal protections for online publishers
Donald Trump has nominated Brendan Carr to head the Federal Communications Commission, handing a vociferous critic of Big Tech the job of regulating television, internet services and radio in the US. The president-elect announced the nomination late on Sunday, describing Carr, already the most senior Republican commissioner on the FCC, as “a warrior for Free Speech” who would “end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America’s Job Creators and Innovators”.
Carr has also supported allocating hundreds of millions of dollars in state subsidies to help Musk build Starlink’s network. Trump has pledged to bring the FCC, an independent regulatory agency, “back under Presidential authority, as the Constitution demands”, although media executives question whether he would be able to do this in practice.
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