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Donald Trump has named FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr as the new Chair of the Commission. He told Fox News what his biggest priorities will include.
While appearing on America’s Newsroom, Brendan Carr laid out the three biggest priorities he sees for the FCC in his new role.
“Number one is looking at tech censorship. Free speech is the bedrock of our democracy,” said Carr. “And there’s been this unprecedented surge in censorship over the last couple of years. And we need to restore Americans’ First Amendment rights. Number two is to look at our approach to media. Jeff Bezos just recently did an op-ed where he said that Americans don’t trust the news media. He said, now they’re the least trusted of all. And I think he’s speaking a lot of truth there. So I think the status quo, particularly when it comes to legacy media, needs to change.
“And, three, we have a real opportunity to get the economy going and creating jobs. When President Trump came in, in 2017, we were behind the eight ball when it came to communications policy, and he turned things around. And that’s exactly what is going to happen again,” he concluded.
During his time on Fox News, Carr added that freeing up the media industry from government bureaucracy also will be a chief initiative.
“We need to free up more spectrum. We need to do permitting reform. You talk about rural broadband, that’s the key there,” he continued. “And number three is the space economy. I mean, I’m down here in South Padre Island right now. There’s going to be another Starship launch later today. And it simply cannot take longer to move permitting paper from one desk at an agency to another than it does to build and launch these rockets. So we’re going to unleash America’s private sector again.”
