carlosdp 5 hours ago

There are certainly some good points about some statements Carr has made that seem to be pushing at the limits of what the FCC actually has purview over, but the contention that Carr is "the most direct and sustained threat to the First Amendment and the freedom of the press any of us will ever experience" is on its face absurd to anyone that follows Carr's work.

Even the examples in this article fail to come close to making this case. In each one, he's advocating for more speech, for increased access to publishing platforms. No ordinary person would possibly see that as "censorship." He's not seeking to eliminate "speech he dislikes" by making statements against NewsGuard's heavy involvement in social media "disinformation" moderation, he's making the point that moderation on political speech has been unfairly applied in many cases, and that's largely the fault of activist groups that push social networks to censor speech they don't like (and label "disinformation").

The article starts out by accusing the Trump camp of projection, by lauding Carr as a champion of free speech. It's ironic that the author is guilty of that very thing (projecting) by accusing Carr of being not only pro-censorship, but the biggest threat to free speech in the country? Where have you been for the past 15 years? Come on

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beej71 4 hours ago

And him saying NBC could lose it's license for giving airtime to Trump's opponents...? Where does that land?

anon291 4 hours ago

By the time he pulls NBCs license, it'll probably have been sold to someone else.

At the end of the day, the radio spectrum is limited and the licenses ought to be reserved for the channels most popular with the American people.

Platforms losing viewership would naturally qualify for eviction.

mrbombastic 4 hours ago

I don’t understand your argument, because NBC is not popular it is okay to censor them because of a political vendetta?