2024-11-28
About this @mmasnick.bsky.social writes: “Carr is smart and he knows exactly what he's doing here. He is couching his extreme censorial desires in the language of free speech, knowing that most people won't know enough or understand the details and nuances to recognize what he's doing.”
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Incoming FCC chairman Brendan Carr's censorial agenda, which is couched in the language of free speech, may be the biggest threat to the 1A in quite a long time
www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/ b... Tim Karr / @timkarr.bsky.social : Where one of the bigger threats to free speech under the coming Trump admin, says the private entity NewsGuard “...
Where one of the bigger threats to free speech under the coming Trump admin, says the private entity NewsGuard “is under investigation for impinging First Amendment rights.” — I've met third graders who have a better understanding of the First Amendment than Brendan Carr. — youtu.be/VUzRKTzIn_I?...
Techdirt
Incoming FCC chairman Brendan Carr's censorial agenda, which is couched in the language of free speech, may be the biggest threat to the 1A in quite a long time
www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/ b... Tim Karr / @timkarr.bsky.social : Where one of the bigger threats to free speech under the coming Trump admin, says the private entity NewsGuard “...
In reality, Carr must understand that the First Amendment is a protection against censorship by government actors like him—not a government sledgehammer used to silence dissenting voices, or, in the case of NewsGuard, groups that are simply fact-checking statements by officials like Carr & Trump ...
Techdirt
Incoming FCC chairman Brendan Carr's censorial agenda, which is couched in the language of free speech, may be the biggest threat to the 1A in quite a long time
www.techdirt.com/2024/11/27/ b... Tim Karr / @timkarr.bsky.social : Where one of the bigger threats to free speech under the coming Trump admin, says the private entity NewsGuard “...