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'The authoritarian's dream': FCC chair's own words resurface after Kimmel suspension
MSNBCยท2025-09-18 17:04

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr was named the position by President Trump last year after rising through the ranks at the agency. He's long spoken out against government censorship and for the freedom of speech. In 2019, Carr posted on social media, quote, should the government censor speech it doesn't like.Of course not. The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the public interest. In 2021, he wrote, quote, "A newsroom's decision about what stories to cover and how to frame them sho ...