WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump introduced Sunday that he has chosen Brendan Carr to be chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.
Carr is the highest Republican commissioner on the FCC, the federal government company tasked with regulating radio, tv and cable communications.
“Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought in opposition to the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans’ Freedoms, and held again our Economy,” Trump mentioned in a. “He will finish the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America’s Job Creators and Innovators, and make sure that the FCC delivers for rural America.”
Carr wrote the FCC chapter within the conservative playbook Project 2025, during which he argued that the company’s predominant targets ought to be “reining in Big Tech, selling nationwide safety, unleashing financial prosperity, and making certain FCC accountability and good governance.”
In his chapter, Carr urged TikTok ought to be banned if it fails to disentangle from its China-based father or mother firm — a problem on which Trump held conflicting views earlier than he joined the app himself this yr. He additionally known as for working with Congress to reform Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which supplies social media corporations a degree of immunity for the content material on their platforms and permits them to reasonable sure objectionable content material “in good religion.”
“Congress ought to accomplish that by making certain that Internet corporations now not have carte blanche to censor protected speech whereas sustaining their Section 230 protections,” Carr wrote in Project 2025’s e book.
The FCC consists of 5 commissioners serving five-year phrases, and solely three are allowed to be from the identical social gathering, which means it’s bipartisan.