USA: fresh Head of Communications Commission announces fight against large Tech censorship

The fresh head of the national Communications Commission (FCC) in the US will be Brendan Carr's lawyer, who announced that he would deal with the "censorship cartel". His nomination does not require the acceptance of the Senate. Carr will oversee an agency regulating net and Communications Network access in the US, including a policy on tv and radio broadcasters.

Earlier, during Donald Trump's first word since 2017, the current nominee served as the legal advisor to the FCC. The Agency enforces communication rules, runs programmes to aid communities access the high-speed net and regulates communication services, including access to satellite networks.

The mainstream media are afraid that the Commission under Carr will change its priorities by focusing on the fight against censorship – which they are accused of utilizing – as well as large technology companies and Chinese telecommunications companies.

Sam Carr wrote in a chapter devoted to the FCC in a celebrated program Project 2025that "FCC must change course and give fresh precedence to achieving 4 main objectives", including "limitation of large Tech activities".

Project 2025 containing requests for a change in American policy, was developed by the Heritage Foundation. It is demonized by mainstream media. It points to the request to deal with the industrial complex of censorship, including the collaboration of large Tech corporations with national agencies of Joe Biden's administration, university centres and multiple self-appointed organizations fact-checking, controlling the flow of information.

Carr stressed that he felt a fresh approach was needed to deal with technological giants specified as Google, Meta and others, due to the power they gained in deciding to limit the flow of certain information and to form the consumer preferences of citizens. – These corporate giants not only exploit their marketplace power, but besides abuse their dominant position He suggested a lawyer.

Donald Trump's favourite announced that he wanted to limit their immunity, provided by paragraph 230 of the Morality Act in Telecommunications of 1996 (Communication Decency Act). On the 1 hand, it protects platforms from being liable for defaming user publications and, on the other, allows them to “censor protected statements”.

The fresh head of the national agency wants technology companies to be more transparent about changing algorithms and deciding to block or demolish websites and user content.

Carr late pointed out in an interview with Fox News that the national government does not treat people fairly, favoring any platforms. Among another things, he referred to the withdrawal of a grant of nearly $900 million for the Starlink Elona Muska program, which was to contribute to the creation of net access to hundreds of thousands of agrarian properties. He announced that in the future all entrepreneur would get an equal chance from the government.

The fresh Commissioner sees a immense threat to the safety of the US on the TikTok platform and another Chinese companies, complaining of “a run to influence by identifying the news and information that the app transmits to millions of Americans.” president Joe Biden felt the same way. Carr wants to monitor and limit Chinese telecommunications and technology companies in the US. He severely criticized and criticized the political bias of any broadcasters, e.g. CBS News, whose allegations of breaking the law due to illegal campaigning during election silence (a sketch involving Kamala Harris in Saturday Night Live before the election). This was to be “a clear and gross effort to circumvent the rule Equal Time FCC – wrote Carr on November 2. "The intent of this rule is to avoid this kind of bias and organization behaviour of a licensed broadcaster utilizing public radio waves to influence the vote on 1 candidate on the eve of the election," he added.

Just after Trump's nomination, Carr announced that the FCC under his regulation would "execute" the laws that call on broadcasters to "act in the public interest".

Donald Trump was ruged from mainstream media, constantly attacked by them, repeatedly called for the depriving of licenses of major broadcasters specified as ABC, NBC and CBS. In 2024, he sued CBS News for interviewing Harris in 60 Minutes, claiming that the network utilized a “swindling” installation of its answers. The point is that in the announcement of the interview there was another answer in 1 of the issues, which was later changed in an interview published a fewer days later so that the candidate would not be compromised.

President-elect portrayed Carr as "a warrior for freedom of speech". Another FCC Commissioner Geoffrey Starks, a Democrat, described Carr as "a dedicated state authoritative and recognized leader on many issues that the Commission is dealing with today".

On the weekend, Carr tweeted: "We must destruct the censorship cartel and reconstruct the right to free speech to the average Americans." However, Andrew Selepak, who lectured at the Department of Production, Management and Media Technology at Florida University, recalled that FCC's powers mention to more "public radio waves" than the Internet. "So it would be essential to extend the FCC's powers in order to truly do a lot about social media regulation, the Internet, large Tech, etc."

The fresh head of FCC will surely have an impact on the explanation of paragraph 230 and on investments in high-speed broadband in agrarian areas. Something that, according to the Wall Street Journal, was neglected by president Joe Biden's administration.

Those who have been censored online hope that the government's approach to the policy of reducing the spread of alleged mis-, mal- and misinformation, from the White home to national agencies and their private partners from large Tech, advisory teams and organizations fact-checking controlling freedom of expression.

Interestingly, 1 of the censored doctors, a medical prof. from Stanford University Jay Bhattacharya, who opposed the COVID-19-related blockades and brought an action against Biden's administration, is the main candidate for head of the National wellness Institutes. By NIH manager Francis Collins of Biden's administration, it was called an “peripheral” epidemiologist. The prof. is powerfully active in combating censorship in science.

The papers of the Freedom of Information Act obtained by investigative writer Jimmy Tobias and published a fewer days ago show that Collins' chief deputy, Lawrence Tabak, who late testified before the subcommittee of the home of Representatives on the final proceeding of the coronavirus pandemic, was active in censorship at NIH in January 2021 (including the explanation of virus leakage from the laboratory in connection with investigation funded by NIH in 2015).

Sources: cbsaustin.com, justthenews.com, cbs.com

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