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FCC Chair Brendan Carr is emulating Joseph Goebbels [1]

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Date: 2025-07-15

The man who wrote the FCC section of Project 2025, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr, has been working in the background while Trump, Bondi, and Noem have been taking up all the news space. Carr is out to control how communication companies operate, and what information they disseminate. He is Trump's propaganda chief, just as Joseph Goebbels was Hitler's propaganda chief. I don't really see much daylight between them.

Carr's major weapon to control communication is the threat of charging any communication carrier with discrimination by following DEI policies. I've written about this many times. He calls them guilty, and then turns them over to Pam Bondi at the DOJ to follow through on prosecution if they don't knuckle under.

He has an ongoing investigation (PDF) at Disney-ABC. Paying off Trump with the $15 million to settle the lawsuit, to his presidential library, was only the start. The threat to Paramount-CBS may have been taken away by their caving in and giving Trump $16 million for his Presidential Library, which will never be created because all the money goes into his pocket. They would have easily won the court case because Trump's lawsuit was completely unconstitutional as an attack on the First Amendment. Companies are caving when they don't have to. But that merger had to be made so the owners could make billions of dollars. Trump knows that money makes the world go around, just like in Cabaret.

So far, Carr has not gone after NBC. This is actually odd. Their relationship to MSNBC makes them a prime target. MSNBC is Trump's most hated cable channel.

Carr has been successful in removing DEI at cell phone companies. Their very existence is controlled by the FCC. Without operating approval, and communication frequencies, they can't operate. Carr had them completely over a barrel thanks to Donald Trump's executive order.

First, in May, Verizon laid down and played dead. Days ago T-Mobile did the very same thing.

Carr says, "Another good step forward for equal opportunity, non-discrimination, and the public interest."

Notice the words "public interest." This means whatever Carr wants it to mean. If you have a DEI program, give up all hope those who enter here. This is the key phrase for radio and television stations retaining their FCC broadcast licenses. If you don't follow what he considers to be the rules, you can lose your operating license. Anything that uses any of the frequency spectrum is regulated by the Federal Communications Commission. Anything and everything.

You already know that Trump and the Republicans are doing their damndest to defund The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and take out the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio in the process. Carr was already upset about the mentions of sponsors and corporate sponsors preceding programs that they paid for in part. He was saying that they are too long to be just acknowledgments of being a donor, calling them advertisements which public broadcasting is not allowed to do. So they were already having a problem. Now he wants to take away their ability to even defend themselves against being defunded.

Carr is calling them political ads, when in fact they're asking for viewers to help them. They are not endorsing any candidate or political office. That's what a political ad is. Asking somebody to call their representatives is completely innocent. And nobody is paying them to put these up, they're doing it on their own dime. In self-defense.

Trump and DOGE has a particular hatred of regulations. They get in the way of businesses being able to do business. All those things that prevent fossil fuel power plants and gas guzzling vehicles from being dangerous to our health and the world. There, you've got Lee Zeldin at the EPA running roughshod over regulations. People don't remember this now, but Trump put out an executive order that every single government regulation had a one-year expiration date. If it isn't deliberately renewed in a year, it disappears automatically. If you propose a new regulation, you have to get rid of 10 first, and they can't have any financial consequences either with the new regulation or by removing the 10. Regulation Catch-22.

So, Carr is really pleased with getting rid of FCC regulations that were in the way of some business function being able to make money. In this post he also takes his shot at net neutrality. I'll talk about that in detail on one of his other posts. He thinks he's cute with delete, delete, delete.

Now we get to the one of the biggies. Net neutrality. What this meant is that the internet is not for sale. You can't block or slow down one type of communication or one social media platform in favor of others that are paying you money to get high-speed access. What this means is you can have tiered service. You might have a package that says you get high-speed access to X, and Facebook. But you'll find your Instagram and TikTok are glitching. Pay more to get those added. They could charge you more to access sites outside of the United States. Virtual private Networks would either be made completely non-functional, or you have to pay to use them not only by your VPN provider, but also by your ISP, adding up to more money being spent that you didn't have to before. All of a sudden, the internet just got a lot more expensive to use. It's coming. It will be slow, but it will happen.

The way Carr says it, is completely chilling. It's like Sen.Joni Ernst who said everybody's going to die anyway, when confronted with Medicaid being taken away from 13 to 17 million people.

"Why not? I figured people couldn't die a second time."

He must be as evil as Goebbels. He just said something so uncaring and Project 2025 leaning, that says he should never have been on the Federal Communications Commission in the first place during the Biden Administration.

Then, he gloats a second time, with the New York Times article saying that T-Mobile has caved to anti-DEI pressure.

No comment this time. He didn't need to. The Times said it for him. He won. T-Mobile lost. He wants us all to know that this is just the start.

The First Amendment has suddenly become a fragile thing. Brendan Carr is out to not just regulate, but control communication. He can do it, too.

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