If You Like Being Ripped Off By Comcast, You'll LOVE Trump's Likely New FCC Boss
www.techdirt.com

... Current FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr has spent much of the last decade positioning himself to be Trump's likely pick for the next boss of the FCC. He's likely to get his wish; after spending a lot of time crying about TikTok to get on cable TV and kissing AT&T's and Comcast's asses, Carr's widely considered the frontrunner to head the country's top telecom and media regulator.

If you've tracked Carr's policies, it shouldn't come as a surprise to you that one of his top goals will be to dismantle the FCC's already shaky consumer protection efforts.

That means the death of net neutrality, the end of the agency's inquiry into ------ broadband usage caps, the end of broadband consumer privacy, the end of the FCC's efforts to stop broadband "redlining" (read: racism in fiber deployment), the end of any good faith efforts to help the poor afford broadband, and an end to efforts to stop Comcast from ripping you off with ------ fees.

Carr's policies are basically AT&T, Verizon, and Comcast's policies, dressed up as original thought.

Carr is one of these guys who thinks that if you let giant, unpopular telecom behemoths do whatever they want; miracles and innovation start magically sprouting from the sidewalk. ...

Trump's FCC chair is Brendan Carr, who wants to regulate everyone except ISPs
arstechnica.com

... Carr says he wants to punish broadcast media and dismantle "censorship cartel."

President-elect Donald Trump announced last night that he will make Brendan Carr the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. Carr, who wrote a chapter about the FCC for the conservative Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, is a longtime opponent of net neutrality rules and other regulations imposed on Internet service providers.

Although Carr wants to deregulate telecom companies that the FCC has historically regulated, he wants the FCC to start regulating Big Tech and social media firms. He has also echoed Trump's longtime complaints about the news media and proposed punishments for broadcast networks. ...