Brendan Carr wants to preserve data caps, punish NBC, and give money to SpaceX.

Summary

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, a staunch opponent of broadband regulation and net neutrality, is poised to lead the agency under Donald Trump’s presidency.

Carr’s agenda includes reducing regulations on ISPs, potentially forcing Big Tech companies to fund broadband projects, and targeting platforms like TikTok over national security concerns.

He also supports revisiting Section 230 to curb perceived anti-conservative bias in social media.

Critics warn Carr’s leadership could weaken consumer protections, undermine net neutrality, and enable political interference in communications policy, prioritizing industry and partisan goals over public interest.

  • Verdant Banana@lemmy.worldEnglish
    361·
    1 month ago

    US has already stopped investing in technology education (even people as young as 20 years old that walk in the shop here show no indication of technology education)

    Democracy does die in darkness in part due to loss of progress in technology

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      1 month ago

      The lack of tech knowledge just comes from growing up with tech that just works and that’s much less open than it was back in the day. The same thing is happening everywhere.

        • Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
          41·
          1 month ago

          It’s the truth, honestly. Just look at how smartphones have changed since the iPhone. Remember how it used to be a pretty common thing to switch wifi off and on to fix a connection issue? Or Airplane Mode? That was a troubleshooting step people learned naturally on the original smartphones because they had to. Personally I don’t even know where the Airplane Mode button is on my phone anymore. I can’t remember the last time I had to bounce my wifi. People just troubleshoot less now because stuff just works. We’re going to have to make an effort to keep up the skills for when they stop, or we’ll end up like a sci-fi civilization that can’t repair it’s crumbling ancient infrastructure

          • masterofn001@lemmy.ca
            2·
            1 month ago

            My sisters WiFi wouldn’t connect on a Samsung S20something.

            Went through ordinary steps.

            All failed to resolve.

            The solution:

            Change time date to manual, then back to automatic. For whatever reason, this was the fix.

            Most bizarre troubleshooting ever.

            I’m the type who’s of aa mind that anything can be fixed or repurposed. May not be pretty, but if it can still be used somehow it will.

        • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 month ago

          I have good memories of upgrading the cpu in my 80s computer from a 386 to a 486. I was a kid, my friend had upgraded so I bought it 2nd hand off him.