Trump vs. Mickey… Trump’s FCC commissioner opens investigation into Walt Disney Co. and ABC for diversity policies. #DEI #media #coup #AmericanCoup #diversity #FCC #WhiteSupremacy
https://apnews.com/article/disney-fcc-trump-woke-dei-1aad33c3c2fa9db2143f578037ac4fad

"DELETE, DELETE, DELETE": FCC-Chef Carr will Regeln für Telco- und Web-Firmen streichen. Trumps Anweisung: Zehn Regulierungen abschaffen für jede neue Maßnahme. #FCC https://winfuture.de/news,149522.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

Offizielle Dokumente der #FCC enthüllen jetzt technische #Spezifikationen der #Switch2. Die #Konsole von #Nintendo erhält demnach schnelleres #Wifi. Auch Sammler von #Amiibo-Figuren dürfen aufatmen. https://winfuture.de/news,149409.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

USA suchen Alternative zu GPS

Der US-Telecomregulierer sucht schlaue Ideen für Ergänzungen oder Alternativen zum Ortungssystem GPS. Dieses ist nicht hinreichend zuverlässig.

https://www.heise.de/news/USA-suchen-Alternative-zu-GPS-10307469.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#FCC #Forschung #GPS #KRITIS #Navigation #Netze #news

Trump will die Kontrolle über das US-Internet: Neue "Executive Order" zielt auf Regulierungsbehörden wie #FCC und SEC. Der Präsident soll künftig über Ausgaben und Gesetze dieser Behörden entscheiden. #Trump https://winfuture.de/news,148971.html?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=ManualStatus&utm_campaign=SocialMedia

#Zeteo:
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This Week in Democracy – Week 3: Shadow President Elon Musk in Full Control

Zeteo's new project to document the ongoing, week-by-week growth of authoritarianism in the Trump second term.
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https://zeteo.com/p/this-week-in-democracy-week-3-musk-trump-usaid-fbi-doe

8.2.2025

#ACLU #authoritarianism #CIA #ConstitutionalEmergency #DEI #Democracy #DOGE #DOJ #EPA #FBI #FCC #Menschenfeindlichkeit #Musk #NARA #NCMEC #NOAA #Staatskrise #TheKennedyCenter #UNRWA #USA #USAID

#FCC Hunting For #Ads On #NPR #PBS Local Stations
The newly installed head of the Federal Communications Commission says he plans to investigate whether local NPR and PBS stations are using underwriting spots to air commercial advertising.
[via email from Law360]
#media #regulation #nonprofit #broadcasting

"Replacing Chopra is hard for Trump in part because Trump has imposed a federal hiring freeze. That means that anyone who replaces Chopra has to already be working for the US government, and all the finance grifters are cashing out of the government to go work for giant financial institutions they've been carrying water for while drawing a public salary. Even the people who might take the job can't, because then no one could be hired to do their job – for example, there's a ghoul at the FDIC who'd fit the bill, but if he takes over from Chopra, then the FDIC will have just two members. If the GOP stooge on the FCC quits to take the job, then the Democratic commissioners will have a majority. You love to see it, really.

But – as Dayen points out – they're almost certainly gonna give Chopra the axe eventually. When they do, the CFPB will continue to do some enforcements. It's likely that Ferguson will eventually direct the FTC to do something apart from peering under their beds looking for "woke." When they do take action, they'll probably take action against companies that are wildly, lavishly corrupt. After all, that describes basically all of American big business, a sector that has festered thanks to 40 years of antitrust negligence.

It will be tempting for Trump's opponents to decide that if Trump hates these giant, evil companies, well, then, they must be good. Think of when "progressives" fell in love with the "intelligence community" just because a couple spooks decided they hated Trump. The FBI isn't your friend, folks – this is the agency that tried to blackmail MLK into killing himself:
(...)
The enemy of your enemy? Still your enemy, provided that they're a big, predatory monopolist. Boss politics is about punishing corruption – selectively. Trump-style antitrust is going to target a ton of bad businesses. That won't make them good."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/24/enforcement-priorities/#enemies-lists

#USA #Trump #Antitrust #Competition #FCC #CFPB #BossPolitics #Plutocracy

"The new FCC chair has also indicated that he could use his power to revoke spectrum licenses for networks over their decisions to host speech when he deems it a violation of the equal time rule."
https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/20/24348210/brendan-carr-federal-communications-commission-chair-trump
#Section230 #FCC #Project2025 #FreeSpeech? #FreePress? #media #journalism #news

"Last week, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the FCC, rejecting its authority to classify broadband as a Title II “telecommunications service.” In doing so, the court removed net neutrality protections for all Americans and took away the FCC’s ability to meaningfully regulate internet service providers.

This ruling fundamentally gets wrong the reality of internet service we all live with every day. Nearly 80% of Americans view broadband access to be as important as water and electricity. It is no longer an extra, non-necessary “information service,” as it was seen 40 years ago, but it is a vital medium of communication in everyday life. Business, health services, education, entertainment, our social lives, and more have increasingly moved online. By ruling that broadband “information service” and not a “telecommunications service” this court is saying that the ISPs that control your broadband access will continue to face little to no oversight for their actions.

This is intolerable."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/sixth-circuit-rules-against-net-neutrality-eff-will-continue-fight

#USA #NetNeutrality #FCC #DigitalDivide #BigTelco

sorry to say this is from #CNN but the message is nevertheless clear - #Trump #FCC pick sends stern letter to #BobIger, blasting ‘erosion in public trust’ #news #journalism #censorship #interference #freespeech #legalresearch #television #TV https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/23/media/fcc-brendan-carr-bob-iger-abc-letter/index.html

🔍 Attention Mastadon ! Check out this new News article I wrote on GitHub called HARRIS, released by mi6paulino. It contains IHEARTRADIO DOCUMENTS for semantic review of me deciphering the trends of Media Spending leading up to #electionday Give it a read and let us know your findings! https://github.com/mi6paulino/20R00mz/tree/main/HARRIS%20 #HarrisWalz #news #github mastadon #microsoft #siliconvalley #foia #journalism #nyc #boston #nft #digitalart #google #llm #news #iheartradio #fcc #securedrop #freedomofpress

[thread] Brendan Carr

* lawyer
* served as member of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) 2017+
* appointed by Trump
* authored chapter in Heritage Foundation's Project 2025
* Carr proposes "reining in Big Tech" as main goal for FCC
* Nov 2024 Trump selected Carr to lead FCC

#BrendanCarr #HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #FCC #NetNeutrality #censorship
#Trump2 #GOP #fascism #authoritarianism #disinformation #Christofascism
#capitalism #corporations #billionaires #libertarianism

FCC Chair Confirms Plan to Reinstate Net Neutrality Rules Eviscerated Under Trump

"To allow a handful of monopoly-aspiring gatekeepers to control access to the internet is a direct threat to our democracy,"

Open internet advocates across the United States celebrated on Tuesday as Federal Communications Commission Chair Jessica Rosenworcel announced her highly anticipated proposal to reestablish FCC oversight of broadband and restore net neutrality rules.

#FCC #trump

https://www.commondreams.org/news/restore-net-neutrality