US President-elect Donald Trump tapped Republican Brendan Carr, an Elon Musk-backed critic of big tech, to lead the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), calling him a "warrior for Free Speech" in a statement on Sunday.
USA - US President-elect Donald Trump tapped Republican Brendan Carr, an Elon Musk-backed critic of big tech, to lead the Federal Communications Commission , calling him a"warrior for Free Speech" in a statement on Sunday.
Carr said on Musk's social platform X that he was"humbled and honored" to take on the role of FCC chairman. Carr was already the senior Republican on the FCC, an independent agency that regulates licenses for television and radio, pricing of home internet, and other communications issues in the United States.
The New York Times reported that Starlink received an $885 million grant in late 2020 from the FCC - but that the Democrat-led commission later revoked it because the service couldn't prove it would reach enough unconnected rural homes. "In my view, it amounted to nothing more than regulatory lawfare against one of the left's top targets: Mr. Musk," he wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion article last month.
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