Donald Trump named Brendan Carr—Republican official who wrote the FCC chapter in Project 2025—as his choice to lead the Federal Communications Commission.
His portion of Project 2025 calls for repealing Section 230 of the Communications Act, a plan that Trump attempted to rush through in late 2020. Repealing Section 230 would allow social networks and user-based website to be held legally responsible for content posted by their users. As a result, those websites would most likely severely limit the content users are allowed to post. Repealing Section 230 is a form of information control.
Named to the commission in 2017 by Trump, Carr is an outspoken advocate for many familiar right-wing causes. From Brian Stelter at CNN:
Carr took aim at technology companies for ‘censorship;’ promised to hold broadcast TV and radio stations accountable; and pledged to end the FCC’s promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Carr was very clearly channeling the president-elect, who raised all three topics on the campaign trail, often in misleading ways
Stelter added that, given how Carr is the senior Republican at the agency, he’s expected to get the chairman appointment. Carr is also a close ally of Elon Musk‘s.
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For a guy who repeatedly professed ignorance about Project 2025, Trump is doing some heavy fan-girling about Heritage’s “government” “blueprint” after the election is over. In very real ways, Carr’s nomination is the logical sequel to Musk’s (clumsy psyop known as) “Twitter Files,” which falsely claimed the conservative-billionaire class was being “censored.” Carr routinely exploits a loud megaphone on social media pushing false/incendiary claims, so for him to assume “champion of unheard and unseen” mantle is, to put it kindly, Orwellian.
If you’re asking, “But is Carr a Trump or Musk operative?” the correct answer is “Yes.”
And if America experiences another deadly, mismanaged pandemic under Trump, you should expect Brendan Carr to advocate, even legislate, for rights of his allies to inject fatal disinformation into the airwaves.
