Brendan Carr Named FCC Chair
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•Trump’s FCC pick wants to refashion the agency into the nation’s speech police on social platforms
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President-elect Donald Trump appoints Brendan Carr to lead the FCC .
Carr wants to refashion the broadband regulator into the nation's speech police on social platforms.
There is no precedent for the FCC governing online speech, and experts tell WIRED that the agency has no authority to act on Carr ’s proposals.
Carr has said that the FCC should not only target internet companies over censorship concerns, but TV and radio broadcasters.
Carr has also taken Musk ’s side in regulatory issues the Starlink maker has before the FCC .
It remains unclear exactly how Carr would pursue changes to Section 230 and if they would survive legal scrutiny.
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