[TV orNotTV] Project 2025 Takes Over FCC

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“New YorkCNN - President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, wasted no time in stating his priorities on Sunday night. Just one hour after thanking the president for the appointment, Carr wrote on X, “We must dismantle the censorship cartel and restore free speech rights for everyday Americans.”

Carr and Trump’s powerful ally Elon Musk immediately replied with one word of affirmation: “Based.”

The comments from Carr, who wrote the chapter on the FCC in the conservative blueprint Project 2025, signaled that it won’t be business-as-usual at the country’s communications regulatory agency. Past chairs of the agency, both Republicans and Democrats, have emphasized broadband internet deployment and wireless spectrum policy. Carr didn’t mention those issues on Sunday night….”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/18/media/brendan-carr-trump-fcc-nominee-project-2025/index.html

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[Mark Jeffries]

So they dominate talk radio, have the top-rated cable channel, have people on their side running major newspapers in New York, Chicago and LA (the Tribune is nowhere near as hot-headed as in the Col. McCormick days, but is still Republican on the editorial page) and they have two social media sites that they control, one where they're chasing off anyone slightly to the left of them and another where they don't let anyone on the left in, and they're screaming censorship? I'm sorry, but people on the left don't tell people on the right to go F themselves and threaten violence. That's why they get kicked off of social media.

Mark Jeffries
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[Kevin M.]

There’s next to no legislation on social media, but there is no precedent on the government forcing a private business to force hate speech or violent threats on its website. Nor is the FCC an agency likely to be tasked with that. In fact the Supreme Court recently limited what agencies can actually do. 

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Carr’s argument is that bans on hate speech (not just jokes with coarse language, but the worst kind of racist and sexist filth) is censorship. He plans to fine or punish social media companies that regulate hate speech, which as anyone who has ever read the comments section knows  is functionally the same as requiring vile and threatening speech.

As Mark points out, Carr and his kind are not free speech absolutists, and have no interest in protecting free expression on media controlled by conservatives.

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[Kevin M.]

He can plan all he wants, but first there needs to be legislation written and passed at a Federal level, then there needs to be an agency capable of enforcing it. There is currently neither. 

The first amendment protects citizens from government censorship, but social media isn’t a public utility, and in the case of TikTok isn’t even a US based media. 

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