Commissioner Brendan Carr will be Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Commissioner Carr currently serves as the senior Republican on the FCC. Full announcement and news article below.
New FCC Chairman Nominee Announced
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I thought sure that I would be a shoo-in for the job.
I was counting on @blantonl
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imonitorit
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I thought he would pick Steve Bannon or Alex Jones. (lol)
While Carr is already an FCC commissioner, would he have to confirmed as Chairman?
CanesFan95
Analog already is interoperable.
Shouldn't these people be electrical engineers and not politicians?
MTS2000des
5B2_BEE00 Czar
Not really. The FCC is a regulatory agency, as such, the chief should be briefed by technical folks but ultimately, it's a political office. I do find his background interesting. He is 100 percent DC raised and spent his entire adult life there, almost groomed for his position: Georgetown, law clerk, FCC co-counsel and now chair.
His gunning for big tech is interesting. He wants to go after Google, Apple, Byte Dance...but vehemently opposed net neutrality. We shall see.
celestis
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All Carr does is whine daily on Twitter about how Elon's SpaceX Starlink wasn't handed a blank check for broadband subsidies
I don't think I want to hear from a guy who believes handling billions to a weirdo with 3 citizenships is somehow a great idea
I don't think I want to hear from a guy who believes handling billions to a weirdo with 3 citizenships is somehow a great idea
speedway_navigator
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FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr issued the following statement on President Trump’s election and the recent call by congressional leadership to ensure a smooth change in direction at the FCC:
“I want to congratulate President Trump on his historic election victory. The American people have sent a clear and decisive message to Washington. It is time to change course. That is why I agree with congressional leadership that the FCC should immediately stop work on any partisan or controversial matter and focus on the transition.
“When the transition is complete, the FCC will have an important role to play reining in Big Tech, ensuring that broadcasters operate in the public interest, and unleashing economic growth while advancing our national security interests and supporting law enforcement. The FCC can and must deliver results for the American people.”
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I sent this to his press secretary.
Tell him I said thanks for all his work to keep the FCC focused on the technical side of electrical communications and not trying to cause RFI to our first amendments rights by regulating content being modulated on the RF carrier.
“I want to congratulate President Trump on his historic election victory. The American people have sent a clear and decisive message to Washington. It is time to change course. That is why I agree with congressional leadership that the FCC should immediately stop work on any partisan or controversial matter and focus on the transition.
“When the transition is complete, the FCC will have an important role to play reining in Big Tech, ensuring that broadcasters operate in the public interest, and unleashing economic growth while advancing our national security interests and supporting law enforcement. The FCC can and must deliver results for the American people.”
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I sent this to his press secretary.
Tell him I said thanks for all his work to keep the FCC focused on the technical side of electrical communications and not trying to cause RFI to our first amendments rights by regulating content being modulated on the RF carrier.
MTS2000des
5B2_BEE00 Czar
The FCC hasn't been involved in technical/electrical side of communications for decades. Their constituents are the wireless telecom cartels: AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile. Their purpose is to clear RF spectrum for sale/leasing to those cartels so the US population can "pay to play" for everything. Things like net neutrality, RFIM, are not of interest and don't generate revenue. Change my mind.
Or get a company that knows how to keep a website up and running smoothly.
We shouldn't need an outside "company" to do what is expected from the FCC. We pay them to do that.
Yes of course. I think the sentiment was meant more to bring awareness to the horrible performance of the FCC web site. I was just using it earlier and it was super sloooooow and timed out many times with an unspecified error. And I know that this type of thing is nothing new there.
I sure want you to be wrong, but reluctantly suspect you're pretty much on point.
celestis
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I suspect someone who worked at the FCC who knew a boatload about ULS's inner workings left in 2022 because even for occasional auction participants the online forms weren't copying data correctly until I phoned it into their support line
5 years ago it wasn't this insufferably unusuable
speedway_navigator
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I watched the FCC meeting today, did hear a few buzz words about how they are helping marginalized internet users and how an undersea cable was cut, supposedly by China which put an island in 'digital darkness' for 6 weeks.
Pivoting seems to be the current buzzword for folks who had to change their plans to implement something, heard that too. Only heard diverse once, maybe the commissioner had to cut her talk short so she could pee.
It was nice to see staffers recognized and named.
Pivoting seems to be the current buzzword for folks who had to change their plans to implement something, heard that too. Only heard diverse once, maybe the commissioner had to cut her talk short so she could pee.
It was nice to see staffers recognized and named.
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