Brendan Carr
@BrendanCarrFCC
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Chairman, Federal Communications Commission.
Washington DC
Joined July 2014
America’s tower crews get the toughest jobs done. 🇺🇸. Always enjoy spending time with Brandon and his Vikor team. 📍Rowena, South Dakota
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NEW. Facebook is now censoring the fact that @VP Harris has failed to connect even one person to the Internet despite leading the Administration’s $42 billion infrastructure plan for 1,000+ days. Facebook is labeling this “false information,” not because anyone has been
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NEW . The FCC just released the text of its 3-2 decision to approve a Soros backed group’s purchase of 200+ radio stations. The Commission’s decision today is unprecedented. Never before has the Commission voted to approve the transfer of a broadcast license—let alone the
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Thank you, President Trump!. I am humbled and honored to serve as Chairman of the FCC. Now we get to work. 🇺🇸
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Last year, after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, President Biden gave federal agencies the green light to go after him. And they have. Today, the FCC adds itself to the growing list of federal agencies engaging in the regulatory harassment of Elon Musk. I dissent.
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We must dismantle the censorship cartel and restore free speech rights for everyday Americans.
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This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC's Equal Time rule. The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct - a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election.
BREAKING: Democratic nominee Kamala Harris will appear on SNL in the last episode before the presidential election, AP sources say.
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NEW. Senators write Vice President Kamala Harris over her mismanagement of a $42 billion program to expand Internet. After 1️⃣,0️⃣3️⃣8️⃣ days “not a single person has been connected to the internet using the $42.45 billion.”
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Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft & others have played central roles in the censorship cartel. The Orwellian named NewsGuard along with “fact checking” groups & ad agencies helped enforce one-sided narratives. The censorship cartel must be dismantled.
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Great!. First, I would like to speak with Dr. AI Fen. She worked at Wuhan Central Hospital and tried to sound the alarm on the virus. Could you un-disappear her so we could speak?.
Welcome to China anytime and talk to anyone in the streets to enjoy the freedom. BTW Where is freedom & transparency when Captain Crozier was dismissed for a letter to save thousands of lives and medical workers fired for talking about working conditions?
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On Brazilian Justice de Moreas's order shutting down X:. The text of his 51-page decision is far more concerning and sweeping than the headlines suggest. de Moreas’s own words make clear that he is attempting to strike a broader blow against free speech and in favor of.
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The FCC’s most recent budget request said that promoting DEI was the agency’s second highest strategic goal. Starting next year, the FCC will end its promotion of DEI.
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@SawyerMerritt @SpaceX 2023 FCC: Claims that Starlink is not capable of providing high-speed Internet to thousands of people as the reason for revoking an $885M award to the company. 2024 FCC: Claims that Starlink provides so much high-speed Internet that the word monopoly should be tossed out there.
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Oopsie. We did a propaganda.
YouTube confirms it’s accidentally been deleting comments containing two phrases that insult China’s Communist Party
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Yesterday, President Trump issued an Executive Order to end the government’s promotion of DEI. Today, as Chairman of the FCC, I am ending the FCC’s promotion of DEI and will focus our work on competently carrying out the FCC’s statutory mission.
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In 2021, Vice President Harris agreed to lead the Administration’s $42B plan to expand Internet to millions of Americans. 1️⃣,0️⃣3️⃣9️⃣ days later …. Not one person has been connected to the Internet. None. With VP Harris at the helm, Politico recently reported on the
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Georgia alone was allocated $1.3 billion (from the VP Harris led $42 billion initiative) to provide Internet to over 315,000 unserved homes & businesses in that state. As @RepMTG notes, 1,000+ days later, not one home or business has been connected in Georgia with those dollars.
In 2021, Vice President Harris agreed to lead the Administration’s $42B plan to expand Internet to millions of Americans. 1️⃣,0️⃣3️⃣9️⃣ days later …. Not one person has been connected to the Internet. None. With VP Harris at the helm, Politico recently reported on the
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Free speech is not a threat to democracy—censorship is.
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@Jason In 2020, the FCC secured a commitment from Starlink to offer high-speed Internet to 640,000 rural locations for $1,300 per location in federal support. After revoking that award in 2023, the government is now spending in the ballpark & upwards of $100,000 per location in cases.
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Brazil’s decisions to ban X and freeze Starlink assets are part of a growing crackdown on free speech. But they also violates Brazil’s own laws. Today, I wrote my regulatory counterparts in Brazil to address these unlawful actions. *****.Dear ANATEL President Baigorri,. The
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In 2020, the FCC secured a commitment from Starlink to offer high-speed Internet in rural areas for $1,377 per location in support. The Biden Administration rescinded that deal, and is now spending $5,125 per location. Spending over 3X more & taking years longer is not a win.
I announced we're investing another $82M to connect 16,000 additional homes and businesses to high-speed internet across North Carolina. This is just one piece of a much bigger story. Under my leadership, over 40,000 infrastructure projects have been announced across our nation.
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President Biden stood at a White House podium & stated that Elon Musk “is worth being looked at.”. When asked "How?", President Biden responded “There’s a lot of ways.”. There certainly are. The DOJ, FAA, FTC, NLRB, SDNY, & FWS have all taken action. The FCC now joins them.
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The FCC just ordered every broadcaster to start posting a race & gender scorecard that breaks down the demographics of their workforce. Activists lobbied for this b/c they want to see businesses pressured into hiring people based on their race & gender. Courts have already
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Broadcast media have had the privilege of using a scarce and valuable public resource—our airwaves. In turn, they are required by law to operate in the public interest. When the transition is complete, the FCC will enforce this public interest obligation.
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“Doctored”?. Wait just one second. You’re telling me the President’s face didn’t naturally appear on Bill Pullman’s body in the Nevada desert to rally fighter pilot Ted Cruz in a battle against aliens??. 🤯.
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VP Harris recently lamented that “in America, it takes too long and it costs too much to build.”. She's not wrong. But she failed to mention that those costly delays are a feature, not a bug, of her progressive policies. Consider her own record. In 2021, she agreed to lead the
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Democrats have been in charge of the Administrative State—the alphabet soup of agencies in DC—for at least 12 of the last 16 years. Over those 12 years, government control has increased and your freedoms have decreased. It is time to flip the script in Washington.
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Sunset over South Texas. It is time to unleash America’s space economy. 🚀🚀
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Chairman Schiff has been collecting Americans’ private call records through a secret & partisan process. He even published some of them in the Impeachment Report. These sensitive records are protected by federal law. His conduct raises serious concerns & I’ve asked for answers.
My latest: FCC Commissioner @BrendanCarrFCC takes on Schiff's surveillance state, slapping him for secret subpoenas for call records that invade privacy and deny targets judicial review. via @WSJ.
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In 2021, @VP Harris agreed to lead the Administration’s signature effort to expand Internet infrastructure. Congress then provided $42 billion for the work. It’s now been 9️⃣8️⃣7️⃣ days since the plan was enacted &. 0️⃣ Americans have been connected. 0️⃣ Shovels worth of dirt turned
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Ricky asked me to say Thank You to Elon Musk. Ricky is working hard to rebuild Chimney Rock, North Carolina, and he’s been relying on Starlink service to stay connected. He helped teams that delivered the kits in the wake of Hurricane Helene. #CarrTrip
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2. Next, I’d like to speak with Chen Qiushi and Fang Bin - two video bloggers that tried to bring the world a glimpse of Wuhan unfiltered by your Communist regime. Could you un-disappear them so we could speak?.
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9. @SpokespersonCHN does your offer still stand? Or has it suddenly disappeared as things tend to do over there?.
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No higher honor than getting blocked by the chief propagandist of the communist regime in China. There’s nothing a communist can’t stand more than the truth spoken freely.
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3. I’d like to speak with Li Zehua next. He worked as a journalist in Wuhan and refused to stay silent on Covid. In his last report, he live-streamed his own arrest. Could you un-disappear him so we could speak?.
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6. Ok, how about the hero doctor Li Wenliang then?. He was dragged to a police station in the middle of the night and forced to recant the early warning he wanted the world to hear.
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4. I’d then like to speak with Xu Zhiyong. He was arrested after he criticized your party leader for his botched handling of the coronavirus outbreak. Could you un-disappear him so we could speak? .
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Federal law requires applicants like these with excessive foreign ownership to file a petition for declaratory ruling at the same time that they seek FCC approval for the relevant licenses, they must then complete that process before the FCC can approve the assignment of.
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This week, the Biden-Harris Admin said “we are well on our way” to connecting everyone with high-speed Internet. Well on the way? Their $42 billion effort isn’t even underway. After 1️⃣,0️⃣6️⃣1️⃣ days, not one person has been connected through that effort & no builds have started.
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5. They’re not available for comment? That’s odd. Then let me speak with Ren Zhiqiang. He committed the high crime of writing an article criticizing your regime’s attempt to cover up the Covid outbreak. Could you un-disappear him so we could speak?.
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7. Could I speak with Xu Zhangrun?. He’s a law professor in Beijing that wrote an essay titled “Viral Alarm.”. It says what the world knows: your authoritarian regime and censorship hindered efforts to slow Covid’s spread. Could you un-disappear him?.
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8. I’d then like to speak with Xie Linka who worked at Wuhan Union Hospital. She joined other Wuhan health officials in trying to sound the alarm on Covid before being berated and forced into silence by communist officials. Can I speak with her?.
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Broadcast licenses are not sacred cows. These media companies are required by law to operate in the public interest. If they don’t, they are going to be held accountable, as the Communications Act requires.
How Trump's FCC chief pick could make life more difficult for media companies
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NEW from @WSJ Editorial Board:. “The FCC withdrew a grant for Starlink to cover rural counties, but the satellite service is now saving the day in those counties.”. “Starlink’s FCC award would have covered all or parts of 17 of the 21 North Carolina counties hardest hit by the.
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In 2021, the Biden Administration got $42.45 billion from Congress to deploy high-speed Internet to millions of Americans. Years later, it has not connected even 1 person with those funds. In fact, it now says that no construction projects will even start until 2025 at earliest.
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Google makes one of the strongest arguments yet for Section 230 reform.
Our policies do not allow ads to run against dangerous or derogatory content, which includes comments on sites, and we offer guidance and best practices to publishers on how to comply.
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Twitter has abandoned any attempt at a good faith application of its rules. No one should take comfort in that. Here it is punishing speakers based on whether it approves or disapproves of their politics.
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I’m old enough to remember when posting this would get you deplatformed.
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In America, TikTok pushes videos to kids that promote self-harm, eating disorders, and suicide. In China, the version of TikTok available there, the app shows young kids science experiments, museum exhibits, and other educational material.
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A lot of people are convinced that national news media correspondents are biased and apply a double standard when covering the President. This type of appalling conduct only cements those views.
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The private sector has been rushing Starlink kits to the very same parts of North Carolina that Biden-Harris officials claimed, just last year, could not be reliably served by Starlink. That claim was made to justify revoking an award Starlink won in 2020.
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Zuckerberg: “I don’t think that Facebook or internet platforms in general should be arbiters of truth”. Facebook: We’re censoring a news story as “misinformation” *before* any “third-party fact checking.”.
While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebook's third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.
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Today marks 9⃣6️⃣7️⃣ days since President Biden signed his $42 billion plan for providing Internet to millions of Americans into law. Not one person has been connected with those dollars. I testify today at 10:00 on how this plan has gone off the rails ⤵️.
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Hey @Twitter, can we get a fact check on this?.
If . we . don't . save. net . neutrality, . you'll . get . the . internet . one . word . at . a . time. #savethenet #savetheinternet #netneutrality #onemorevote.
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$42 billion, years later, and the Biden Administration has not connected even one person to the Internet with these dollars.
Biden’s $42.5 billion rural high-speed internet plan gets stuck in red tape.
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Communist China loyalists using force to tighten grip on Hong Kong lawmakers.
Breaking: Absolute mayhem here in #Legco as half a dozen guards manhandle #HongKong Democratic lawmaker Ted Hui and haul him out of the chamber. It’s become a fierce rugby game with the democrats trying to break through their rivals for a try, to reassert chairmanship of the cmte
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In the 2016 cycle, President Obama’s FCC Chair made clear that the agency would enforce the Equal Time rule when candidate Trump went on SNL. NBC stations publicly filed Equal Opportunity notices to ensure that all other qualifying candidates could obtain Equal Time if they
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@NicoleShanahan Yep. NewsGuard positions itself as the Internet’s arbiter of truth. Of course, it is nothing more than an Orwellian outfit that operates for the purpose of censoring viewpoints that fall outside an approved narrative. Its conduct has also led to collusive ad boycotts, which.
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Talk about Orwellian. This person asked the FCC in 2020 to take enforcement action against any broadcaster that aired President Trump’s briefings without censoring him. Her group then filed a member comment with the FCC in 2021 asking if Republicans should be shot for their
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Today, a TikTok exec said it was “simply false” for me to say that they collect faceprints, browsing history, & keystroke patterns. Except, I was quoting directly from TikTok’s own disclosures ⬇️. TikTok’s concerning pattern of misrepresentations about U.S. user data continues.
TikTok is not just another video app. That’s the sheep’s clothing. It harvests swaths of sensitive data that new reports show are being accessed in Beijing. I’ve called on @Apple & @Google to remove TikTok from their app stores for its pattern of surreptitious data practices.
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A historic day at Starbase. Congratulations to the SpaceX team on a successful Sixth test flight—another giant leap forward. 🚀
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When it comes to the FCC's promotion of DEI, I have just one thing to say: Afuera!
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NEW: Study indicates that TikTok content is being amplified or suppressed based on whether it aligns with the CCP’s geopolitical interests. Rutgers / @NCRI_io research shows massive difference in pro-CCP content on TikTok compared to other major social media platform. “It’s
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@micsolana The debate over free speech and censorship is a very good proxy for the broader contest between freedom and authoritarianism. When someone tells you where they stand on free speech, they’ve told you just about everything you need to know about their position on government power.
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Meet your new speech police!. Facebook now has an Oversight Board empowered to take down posts. Gotta be non-partisan people, right? Nope!. 1 is Pam Karlan: testified to impeach @POTUS, “baron” Trump line, Obama DOJ, & NYT calls “full-throated, unapologetic liberal torchbearer.”
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Just weeks ago, SNL’s Lorne Michaels said that they *would not* be bringing any of the candidates on due to election and equal time laws:. “‘You can’t bring the actual people who are running on because of election laws and the equal time provisions,’ Michaels said.”
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Update…. I’ve managed to track the $42 billion infrastructure program that VP Harris has been leading for 1️⃣,0️⃣8️⃣0️⃣ days now. I’ve included one red pin📍on the map below for every project that is now underway or will get underway this year:
Right now, we are delivering America's largest infrastructure investment in generations. Over 63,000 projects are moving forward—in communities of all sizes across America.
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Vice President Harris has been leading the Administration’s $42 billion plan to expand Internet for 1️⃣, 0️⃣6️⃣8️⃣ days. The results? . 0️⃣ people connected. 0️⃣ projects underway. But lots of time has been spent adopting DEI requirements and a climate change agenda. When
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@BillAckman @KamalaHarris The largest portion of the $65B was for a $42B program to expand Internet connectivity. VP Harris agreed to lead that initiative in 2021. It’s now been 1️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣6️⃣ days since that program was enacted. Zero people have been connected through that program. Not one shovel worth of
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If only we could be unburdened by what has been. In 2020, Starlink won an $885 million award from the FCC to offer high-speed Internet to more than 640,000 rural homes and businesses. But the FCC revoked that award last year through a party-line vote. As I noted at the.
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Those who violently attack journalists are hoping to blot out the truth. They want no light to expose the depravity of their cause.
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Hi @Politico, don’t mean to disrupt your Communist propaganda with facts, but. ✅ There’s no Chinese Twitter, it’s banned. ✅ The regime disappears people that DON’T spread its disinformation on Weibo . ✅ Look up “Wumao” b4 quoting paid trolls. ✅ Here’s a 🧵 w/ actual facts ⤵️.
Trump is getting roasted on Chinese Twitter for his virus response, highlighting a broad verdict there: America disastrously faltered while China outperformed
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There’s a lot of interest in the Supreme Court’s Loper decision—and more than a few hot takes out there. I wanted to offer some thoughts on it as someone who has litigated Chevron cases in private practice and served as the General Counsel and now Commissioner of an agency.
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Afuera!.
Trump's choice for FCC chairman says agency 'will end its promotion of DEI' next year
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Federal law requires that broadcasters provide comparable time and placement to all legally qualified candidates when the Equal Time rule is triggered. With only days before the election, NBC appears to have structured this appearance in a way that evades these requirements.
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Twitter’s censorship here doesn’t even appear to fall within the policy it cites. Like any business, Twitter has a right to its views. And like any business, Twitter is accountable for meeting its terms of service. No business gets to violate those terms for political reasons.
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I have ended the FCC’s consideration of a Biden-era proposal that would have delayed new infrastructure builds. The Biden plan would have expanded the reach of costly and needless environmental reviews. It is time to build and unleash America’s construction crews.
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TikTok doesn’t just see its users dance videos. It collects search and browsing histories, keystroke patterns, biometric identifiers, draft messages and metadata, plus it has collected the text, images, and videos that are stored on a device's clipboard.
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There's another complicating factor here given that NBC's SNL initially said that no candidates would appear on SNL b/c of the federal Equal Time rule. Since SNL made a secret 180 only 50 hours or so before election day, their decision runs into the seven-day rule component of.
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Here’s what VP Harris and Facebook don’t want you to know:. VP Harris has been leading the Administration’s $42 billion program to expand Internet access to millions of Americans for 1️⃣,0️⃣7️⃣0️⃣ days. 0️⃣ people have been connected . 0️⃣ shovels worth of dirt have even been turned
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On my first official trip as FCC Chairman, I will be in Western North Carolina today. I will be meeting with public safety officials & telecom crews that are working hard to rebuild communication services. Grateful to President Trump for the surge in support he’s providing.
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President Trump’s Executive Order on Online Censorhsip is welcome news!. I look forward to receiving the Administration’s petition for rulemaking and taking action. My statement:
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Violently assaulting people in the street because they don’t share your political view is abhorrent and inexcusable conduct.
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I am deeply grateful to President Trump and honored by his decision to designate me as Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. I have had the privilege of working at the FCC for over a dozen years now, including serving previously as the agency's General Counsel. I
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Political actors and media gatekeepers have a new tactic in their age-old effort to control the political narrative:. Labeling online political speech and Internet memes “disinformation.”. My take in @WSJ on why it’s time to turn off the bias filters.
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@Jason All of this—the revocation, the regulatory harassment by numerous government agencies—followed the Biden-Harris Administration giving agencies the green light to go after Musk. You’re now subsidizing that campaign of regulatory harassment.
Last year, after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, President Biden gave federal agencies the green light to go after him. And they have. Today, the FCC adds itself to the growing list of federal agencies engaging in the regulatory harassment of Elon Musk. I dissent.
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Here, de Moraes says he's banning X to influence the results of Brazil's 2024 election, arguing that the electorate might otherwise be influenced by the political views (what he calls "anti-democratic speeches") posted on X, leading to populist results. Cites to Brexit & Trump.
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The fight for freedom from socialism and communism isn’t an academic debate written in the dusty pages of history books. It is a fight that is happening at this very moment. God bless the people of Hong King.
Several hundred riot police charging on the street outside Sogo to disperse the protesters. #HongKongProtests
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Wall Street Journal Editorial Board nails it:. “Big Tech’s increasingly dishonest and abusive assaults on ideas it dislikes. is wrong”. “we’re open to reforms, and. Justice Thomas released an interesting opinion this week on how courts have interpreted Section 230 too broadly”.
The Editorial Board: Silicon Valley's partisan censorship flies in the face of American instincts about democracy, fair play, and the spirit of the First Amendment.
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Since communist China disappears its own people to advance the regime’s geopolitical agenda, it is appropriate for the FCC to scrutinize every telecom carrier with ties to that regime. Today, we issued Show Cause orders as part of our ongoing work to secure U.S. telecom networks
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The FCC has zero authority to block Musk’s purchase of Twitter. And it is particularly frivolous to ask the agency to do so in the name of protecting free speech and open debate.
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You can’t make it up. NewsGuard says it provides apolitical guidance on "misinformation.”. Yet one of its own Advisory Board members signed the infamous Oct 2020 former intel officials letter falsely suggesting that the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation.
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I want to express my thanks and appreciation to @Starlink for the remarkable work they’re doing to help connect Americans in Hurricane Helene’s wake. Importantly, this new direct-to-cell service is separate from the traditional satellite to flat panel dish service that Starlink.
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