President-elect Donald Trump has made a big move that could finally put an end to the practice of censoring conservatives online by choosing Brendan Carr to head up the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
Carr, who is currently a senior Republican commissioner at the FCC, has already said that fighting censorship will be his top priority.
In announcing his pick, Trump called Carr a “warrior for free speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that stifled Americans’ Freedoms and held back our economy.” He added that he will “end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America’s Job Creators and Innovators.”
Speaking to FOX Business’s Maria Bartiromo, he explained that he is working hard to fully understand Trump’s agenda so he can act accordingly given the fact that the American people voted for Trump and his agenda. He outlined his top three priorities for his new position, and the first one was fighting censorship.
“Americans have lived under an unprecedented surge in censorship over the last couple of years, and we have to work together to smash the censorship cartel," he said.
Those who have been profiting from the disinformation industry are already unsettled by what Trump’s presidency will mean for them, with one professor telling the Financial Times anonymously: “I’m pretty fucking scared. If this stuff happens, I will be on a plane [out of America].”
Another professor told the publication that many universities were holding internal discussions about how to prepare for Trump’s presidency, saying: “It’s an existential threat to my livelihood and [our] research funding.”
Carr wants to hold Big Tech accountable
Before his nomination was announced, Carr posted on X that the CEOs of companies like Microsoft, Google and Meta “played central roles in the censorship cartel” via their collaboration with NewsGuard, the for-profit fact checkers who give news sites ratings for quality and trustworthiness – and give their highest ratings to liberal sites.
He sent letters to the Big Tech execs dated November 13 instructing them to submit information about their dealings with NewsGuard to the FCC by December 10.
He accused Big Tech firms and media monitors of working together to “defund, demonetize, and otherwise put out of business news outlets and organizations that dared to deviate from an approved narrative.”
In August, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg admitted to the House Judiciary Committee that senior officials in the Biden administration had pressured his company repeatedly to censor coronavirus-related content in 2021.
Carr also said he’ll be taking a “very hard look” at a deal that would see 200 radio stations being given to a group that is backed by liberal megadonor and globalist George Soros.
Carr explained: “For too long in this government, particularly over the last couple of years, your last name dictated how the government treated you. If your last name was Soros, well, the commission bent over backwards and gave you a special, unprecedented commission-level shortcut to buy 200 radio stations. If your last name was Musk, well then you lost $800 million contracts that you lawfully got.”
“Everybody now is going to get a fair shake going forward,” he added.
Carr has also promised to scrutinize telecommunication networks that are linked to communist China to protect national security.
Let’s hope he’ll deliver on his promises, and we can finally put an end to conservatives being punished for expressing opinions or sharing facts that go against liberal narratives.
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