#brendancarr — Public Fediverse posts

FCC Asks Court to Dismiss ABC Lawsuit Alleging TV License Renewals Violate First Amendment

The FCC asked a federal court Thursday to dismiss the First Amendment lawsuit ABC filed against the agency,…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #ABC #Brendancarr #Disney #fcc #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/719310/

Trump FCC Weakens U.S. Broadband Speed Goals To The Benefit Of Elon Musk And Comcast

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/21/trump-fcc-weakens-u-s-broadband-speed-goals-to-the-benefit-of-elon-musk-and-comcast/

Libraries Beg Brendan Carr To Back Off Plan To Make U.S. Broadband Shittier, More Expensive

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/19/libraries-beg-brendan-carr-to-back-off-plan-to-make-u-s-broadband-shittier-more-expensive/

Brendan Carr Is Illegally Dismantling U.S. Media Consolidation Law

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/20/brendan-carr-is-illegally-dismantling-u-s-media-consolidation-law/

You Have Less Than A Week To Tell The FCC That Carr’s Censorial Attack On ABC Is Nonsense

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/17/you-have-less-than-a-week-to-tell-the-fcc-that-carrs-censorial-attack-on-abc-is-nonsense/

Weekly output: Google I/O teaser, satellite-to-phone services, passkeys, connected-home considerations, Matter

I’m spending a few days in cooler confines–Monday morning, I head to Vancouver for the second year of Web Summit’s conference there. And just like last year, I won’t have enough time to do much wandering around British Columbia’s largest city and taking in its stunningly beautiful mountains-and-sea scenery, because I have three panels to moderate over Tuesday and Wednesday (with the conference hosts paying for my hotel and reimbursing my airfare).

5/5/2026: Google Teases I/O Pregame Event. How to Watch ‘The Android Show’ on May 12, PCMag

This was one of the shortest posts I’ve written for PCMag, owing to the paucity of information in the brief teaser video Google published.

5/7/2026: FCC Chair: Starlink Isn’t Enough. We Need at Least 3 Satellite-to-Phone Services, PCMag

I spent Wednesday afternoon at the wireless trade group CTIA’s annual summit in Washington. Most of the talks on the program didn’t yield anything too newsworthy, but Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr’s appearance met that bar even though he didn’t talk about his clumsy attempts to leverage the FCC’s broadcast licensing authority to punish TV shows and TV hosts for being mean to Republicans.

5/7/2026: Passkey-Adoption Report Finds Many Orgs Don’t Know How to Quit Passwords, PCMag

I had an advance copy of this FIDO Alliance survey but didn’t have time to write it up in advance; fortunately, Thursday did have enough idle time for me to get this post written and filed.

5/8/2026: Smart Homes In Practice: Bridging Design, Integration, And Market Promises With Real Human-Centered Living Outcomes, Smarter Infrastructure Summit

I had a brief trip to Chicago–well, its suburb Rosemont–for this small conference. I was a late addition to this panel, in which moderator Lisa An Wong quizzed me and architect Stephen Yas and connect-home integrator Corey Ardell about ways to get homes and the appliances in them thoughtfully wired.

5/9/2026: Matter Smart Home Standard Still Looks Immaterial At Retail, Smarter Infrastructure Summit

The title of this talk I did mirrors the story I did for PCMag almost three years ago; that post caught the attention of the conference organizers, and the chance to revisit the topic and get in some practice with doing a solo presentation led me to accept their travel-expenses-covered invitation.

What To Know About The FCC Rule At The Center Of Trump Administration Efforts To Crack Down On Stephen Colbert And Other Late-Night Hosts
#News #Politics #BrendanCarr #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Equaltime #FCC #LateShowWithStephenColbert #StephenColbert

https://deadline.com/2026/02/stephen-colbert-equal-time-rule-fcc-1236727576/

“Corporate Capitulation”: FCC Commissioner Criticizes CBS Decision To Ban Broadcast Of Stephen Colbert Interview With U.S. Senate Candidate
#News #Politics #AnnaGomez #BrendanCarr #ElectionLine #FCC #JamesTalarico #LateShowWithStephenColbert #StephenColbert

https://deadline.com/2026/02/stephen-colbert-fcc-james-talarico-1236727088/

Trump Cybersecurity Policy Is Indistinguishable From A Foreign Attack

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/07/trump-cybersecurity-policy-is-indistinguishable-from-a-foreign-attack/

#FCC will vote to scrap #telecom #cybersecurity requirements
The commission’s Republican chair #BrendanCarr, who voted against the rules in January, calls them ineffective and illegal.
With Carr moving to undo Rosenworcel’s actions, it is unclear how the FCC plans to continue to exercise cybersecurity oversight of telecom carriers.
https://www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/fcc-cybersecurity-telecommunications-carriers-brendan-carr-eliminate-rules/804259/

I am sure #SaltTyphoon and other #APT have packed their bags on gone back to their mother's basements and this isn't an issue anymore.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/19/nx-s1-5546764/fcc-brendan-carr-kimmel-trump-free-speech

>>"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr told the right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson. "These companies can find ways to change conduct to take action on Kimmel or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead." <<

Carr's adoption of Hollywood gangster cliche would be laughable were his actions not so dangerous. As with Trump, Miller, and Hegseth, the rhetoric suggests not just resentment towards "the libs", but an impoverished imagination trying to master surging anxieties about masculinity.

#USPolitics #UsCulture #BrendanCarr #RightWing #Masculinity

A Weaponized FCC

Adam Schiff Seeks FCC Answers On Potential Political Influence In Skydance-Paramount Merger Approval
#News #Politics #AdamSchiff #BrendanCarr #CBSNews #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #FCC #ParamountSkydancemerger #SkydanceMedia

https://deadline.com/2025/08/adam-schiff-fcc-skydance-paramount-trump-1236490618/

Weekly output: inflight WiFi, Napster resurfaces, FCC chair’s “Build Agenda”

I spent yet another Fourth of July without going into D.C. to see the fireworks, because I had a logistically simpler alternative: a college friend within walking distance having his usual Independence Day gathering, with smaller-scale pyrotechnics in the backyard.

Patreon readers got a bonus post: a review of the first new TV we’d purchased since 2009, covering its utility with over-the-air ATSC 3.0 broadcasts and with streaming-video services.

6/30/2025: Planning a Trip? These Are the Airlines With the Speediest In-Flight Wi-Fi, PCMag

This post started as a writeup of a report by Speedtest publisher Ookla of the inflight WiFi of 30 airlines, then I used the opportunity to provide an update on United’s rollout of Starlink connectivity on regional jets and remind readers about how the price of inflight WiFi is trending towards zero.

7/1/2025: Napster Resurfaces As (What Else?) an AI Company. Can Its Agents Deliver?, PCMag

I got a heads-up about this weird relaunch of Napster as an AI service a week and a half ago but had no bandwidth to get to the story at the time. Fortunately, Monday had enough free time for me to try out Napster’s AI avatars and write a first-look post about that experience.

7/3/2025: FCC Chair’s ‘Build Agenda’ for Broadband Expansion Looks Familiar, PCMag

After watching FCC chairman Brendan Carr’s speech Wednesday afternoon outlining his plans to boost broadband availability, I realized that parts of it didn’t seem too different from previous initiatives by the commission. So I took a little time to check with a telecom-policy expert and filed this report Wednesday night.

#AI #BrendanCarr #broadband #BuildAgenda #FCC #HawaiianAirlines #inflightBroadband #inflightConnectivity #inflightWiFi #Napster #NapsterCompanion #Ookla #QatarAirways #Speedtest #Starlink