#brendancarr — Public Fediverse posts

That Jimmy Kimmel can't air an interview with James Talarico because of FCC threats should be an international scandal.

#BrendanCarr #FCC #Consolidation #NoDisney #NoHulu #NoESPN #NoSinclair #NoNexstar #NoCBS #NoABC #ShariRedstone #Paramount #FirstAmendment #USPol

That Jimmy Kimmel can't air an interview with James Talarico because of FCC threats should be an international scandal.

#BrendanCarr #FCC #Consolidation #NoDisney #NoHulu #NoESPN #NoSinclair #NoNexstar #NoCBS #NoABC #ShariRedstone #Paramount #FirstAmendment #USPol

FCC Chairman Accuses James Talarico Of Running A “Hoax” With Kimmel

As Jimmy Kimmel‘s interview with James Talarico nears 7 million views on YouTube, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr weighed…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #TV #BrendanCarr #donaldtrump #ElectionLine #Entertainment #equaltimerule #FCC #JamesTalarico #JimmyKimmel
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/846009/

FCC Chairman Accuses James Talarico Of Running A “Hoax” With Kimmel

As Jimmy Kimmel‘s interview with James Talarico nears 7 million views on YouTube, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr weighed…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #TV #BrendanCarr #donaldtrump #ElectionLine #Entertainment #equaltimerule #FCC #JamesTalarico #JimmyKimmel
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/846009/

FCC Chairman Accuses James Talarico Of Running A “Hoax” With Kimmel

As Jimmy Kimmel‘s interview with James Talarico nears 7 million views on YouTube, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr weighed…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Brendancarr #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #equal-timerule #fcc #JamesTalarico #JimmyKimmel #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/729615/

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Accuses James Talarico Of Running A “Hoax” With Jimmy Kimmel Sit Down; YouTube Interview Nears 7 Million Views
#News #Politics #BrendanCarr #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Equaltimerule #FCC #JamesTalarico #JimmyKimmel

https://deadline.com/2026/09/jimmy-kimmel-james-talarico-fcc-1237100486/

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Accuses James Talarico Of Running A “Hoax” With Jimmy Kimmel Sit Down; YouTube Interview Nears 7 Million Views
#News #Politics #BrendanCarr #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Equaltimerule #FCC #JamesTalarico #JimmyKimmel

https://deadline.com/2026/09/jimmy-kimmel-james-talarico-fcc-1237100486/

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Accuses James Talarico Of Running A “Hoax” With Jimmy Kimmel Sit Down; YouTube Interview Nears 7 Million Views
#News #Politics #BrendanCarr #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Equaltimerule #FCC #JamesTalarico #JimmyKimmel

https://deadline.com/2026/09/jimmy-kimmel-james-talarico-fcc-1237100486/

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr Accuses James Talarico Of Running A “Hoax” With Jimmy Kimmel Sit Down; YouTube Interview Nears 7 Million Views
#News #Politics #BrendanCarr #DonaldTrump #ElectionLine #Equaltimerule #FCC #JamesTalarico #JimmyKimmel

https://deadline.com/2026/09/jimmy-kimmel-james-talarico-fcc-1237100486/

Courtesy of the #fascists, with #BrendanCarr at the helm this time, screaming about their #1A rights while eviscerating everyone else's.

https://www.salon.com/2026/09/10/looks-like-jimmy-kimmel-isnt-done-dealing-with-fcc-nonsense/

#USPol
#Kimmel
#Talarico

Courtesy of the #fascists, with #BrendanCarr at the helm this time, screaming about their #1A rights while eviscerating everyone else's.

https://www.salon.com/2026/09/10/looks-like-jimmy-kimmel-isnt-done-dealing-with-fcc-nonsense/

#USPol
#Kimmel
#Talarico

Courtesy of the #fascists, with #BrendanCarr at the helm this time, screaming about their #1A rights while eviscerating everyone else's.

https://www.salon.com/2026/09/10/looks-like-jimmy-kimmel-isnt-done-dealing-with-fcc-nonsense/

#USPol
#Kimmel
#Talarico

Courtesy of the #fascists, with #BrendanCarr at the helm this time, screaming about their #1A rights while eviscerating everyone else's.

https://www.salon.com/2026/09/10/looks-like-jimmy-kimmel-isnt-done-dealing-with-fcc-nonsense/

#USPol
#Kimmel
#Talarico

Courtesy of the #fascists, with #BrendanCarr at the helm this time, screaming about their #1A rights while eviscerating everyone else's.

https://www.salon.com/2026/09/10/looks-like-jimmy-kimmel-isnt-done-dealing-with-fcc-nonsense/

#USPol
#Kimmel
#Talarico

Even with #FCC Chair and #Trump goon #BrendanCarr threatening to punish #ABC if #JimmyKimmel ‘sad mean things’ about #DonaldTheDeplorable , Jimmy had a hilarious response to Trump lying about the ‘standing room only’ #Trumpapalooza by asking “Please, if you don’t mind, don’t anybody go to the bathroom” (because the media will take a picture of your empty seat).

Jimmy quipped “It’s easy for you to say. You’re the only one wearing a diaper.” 😂 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kimmel-trump-diaper-joke_n_6aa3812fe4b09fd4319e4907

#Resist hilariously!

Even with #FCC Chair and #Trump goon #BrendanCarr threatening to punish #ABC if #JimmyKimmel ‘sad mean things’ about #DonaldTheDeplorable , Jimmy had a hilarious response to Trump lying about the ‘standing room only’ #Trumpapalooza by asking “Please, if you don’t mind, don’t anybody go to the bathroom” (because the media will take a picture of your empty seat).

Jimmy quipped “It’s easy for you to say. You’re the only one wearing a diaper.” 😂 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kimmel-trump-diaper-joke_n_6aa3812fe4b09fd4319e4907

#Resist hilariously!

Even with #FCC Chair and #Trump goon #BrendanCarr threatening to punish #ABC if #JimmyKimmel ‘sad mean things’ about #DonaldTheDeplorable , Jimmy had a hilarious response to Trump lying about the ‘standing room only’ #Trumpapalooza by asking “Please, if you don’t mind, don’t anybody go to the bathroom” (because the media will take a picture of your empty seat).

Jimmy quipped “It’s easy for you to say. You’re the only one wearing a diaper.” 😂 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kimmel-trump-diaper-joke_n_6aa3812fe4b09fd4319e4907

#Resist hilariously!

Even with #FCC Chair and #Trump goon #BrendanCarr threatening to punish #ABC if #JimmyKimmel ‘sad mean things’ about #DonaldTheDeplorable , Jimmy had a hilarious response to Trump lying about the ‘standing room only’ #Trumpapalooza by asking “Please, if you don’t mind, don’t anybody go to the bathroom” (because the media will take a picture of your empty seat).

Jimmy quipped “It’s easy for you to say. You’re the only one wearing a diaper.” 😂 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kimmel-trump-diaper-joke_n_6aa3812fe4b09fd4319e4907

#Resist hilariously!

Even with #FCC Chair and #Trump goon #BrendanCarr threatening to punish #ABC if #JimmyKimmel ‘sad mean things’ about #DonaldTheDeplorable , Jimmy had a hilarious response to Trump lying about the ‘standing room only’ #Trumpapalooza by asking “Please, if you don’t mind, don’t anybody go to the bathroom” (because the media will take a picture of your empty seat).

Jimmy quipped “It’s easy for you to say. You’re the only one wearing a diaper.” 😂 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kimmel-trump-diaper-joke_n_6aa3812fe4b09fd4319e4907

#Resist hilariously!

Jimmy Kimmel Posts James Talarico Interview, Calls Out Trump And FCC

Jimmy Kimmel‘s interview with James Talarico was posted to YouTube on Thursday evening rather than the late-night host’s…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #TV #BrendanCarr #donaldtrump #ElectionLine #Entertainment #FCC #JamesTalarico #JimmyKimmel #JimmyKimmelLive!
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/843863/

Jimmy Kimmel Posts James Talarico Interview, Calls Out Trump And FCC

Jimmy Kimmel‘s interview with James Talarico was posted to YouTube on Thursday evening rather than the late-night host’s…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #TV #BrendanCarr #donaldtrump #ElectionLine #Entertainment #FCC #JamesTalarico #JimmyKimmel #JimmyKimmelLive!
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/843863/

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/

Silencing free speech kills democracy. They’re trying hard!

We cannot allow conservative media companies with a disinformation agenda like Sinclair and Nexstar to dominate our public discourse. #EndSinclair #EndNexstar

#BrendanCarr #FCC #MediaConsolidation #Sinclair #Nexstar #FirstAmendment #USPol

#FCC lifts the cap limiting the size of #TV #broadcasting companies

Chairman #BrendanCarr has long said he would do away with the ownership cap. Critics say only #Congress has that authority.

The FCC Thursday voted to eliminate a long-standing #regulation constraining the size of large television broadcasting companies, a major #deregulatory move pushed by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr.

#law #antitrust #billionaires #media #censorship #influence #indoctrination #Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/08/06/fcc-lifts-cap-limiting-size-tv-broadcasting-companies/

Corruption Showdown: Verizon, SpaceX Square Off Over Cell Phone Unlocking

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/07/corruption-showdown-verizon-spacex-square-off-over-cell-phone-unlocking/

How can the F.C.C. sell the idea of axing funding for schools and libraries to connect to the internet? You guessed it! Protecting the children from too much screen time!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/fcc-may-kill-2b-program-that-connects-schools-and-libraries-to-internet

The F.C.C. will ask the public to comment on the proposed funding cuts

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/search-filings/results?q=(proceedings.name:(%2226-133%22))

#uspol #FCC #internet #libraries #schools #erate #brendancarr #thinkofthechildren #library #school #screentime

Brendan Carr Prepares To Make Broadband Shittier, Censored, And More Expensive For U.S. School Kids

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/06/11/brendan-carr-prepares-to-make-broadband-shittier-censored-and-more-expensive-for-u-s-school-kids/

Silencing free speech kills democracy. They’re trying!

We cannot allow conservative media companies with a disinformation agenda like Sinclair and Nexstar to dominate our public discourse. #EndSinclair #EndNexstar

#BrendanCarr #FCC #MediaConsolidation #Sinclair #Nexstar #FirstAmendment #USPol

Silencing free speech kills democracy. They’re trying!

We cannot allow conservative media companies with a disinformation agenda like Sinclair and Nexstar to dominate our public discourse. #EndSinclair #EndNexstar

#BrendanCarr #FCC #MediaConsolidation #Sinclair #Nexstar #FirstAmendment #USPol

Silencing free speech kills democracy. They are trying hard!

We cannot allow conservative media companies with a disinformation agenda like Sinclair and Nexstar to dominate our public discourse.

#EndSinclair #EndNexstar

#BrendanCarr #FCC #MediaConsolidation #Sinclair #Nexstar #USPol

Chaos In Texas: Hollywood Faves James Talarico & Jasmine Crockett’s Senate Primary Ruptured Over Dallas Votes & Court Orders
#News #Politics #2026elections #BarackObama #BrendanCarr #ElectionLine #Grammy #JamesCostos #JamesTalarico #JasmineCrockett #JoeRogan #StephenColbert #Texasprimary #USSenate

https://deadline.com/2026/03/texas-talarico-crockett-votes-senate-primary-1236743195/

“The #FCC has an enforcement action underway on that,” Chairman #BrendanCarr told reporters after an agency meeting Wednesday, in response to a question about whether there were an investigation into the daytime series over potential violations of the “equal time” rule. “And we’re taking a look at it.”

#law #Trump #RevengePolitics #WeaponizationOfGovernment #independence #FederalAgencies #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #fascism #tyranny #USpol

Thanks To Trump, Verizon Immediately Starts Making It Harder To Switch Mobile Carriers

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/22/thanks-to-trump-verizon-immediately-starts-making-it-harder-to-switch-mobile-carriers/

Weekly output: FCC frees Verizon from phone-unlocking rule, Donut Lab’s solid-state battery, Wikipedia turns 25, Google traffic trends

This week brought a lot of unpleasant headlines, but none made me feel uneasy like the news that Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson was subjected to an unexpected visit by the FBI at her house Wednesday that concluded with investigators confiscating her work and personal laptops, her phone and her smartwatch–all seized, it now seems, on a fraudulent pretext. Since then, the man who spent his equivalent of pocket change to buy the Post in 2013 has said nothing about that in public, yet another way in which Jeff Bezos has shown himself an unworthy successor to Katharine Graham and her son Don Graham.

In addition to what you see below, I wrote a post for Patreon readers sharing bonus bits about what I learned at CES two weeks ago.

1/12/2026, FCC Unties Verizon From 60-Day Phone-Unlocking Rule, PCMag

Two days after the Federal Communications Commission granted Verizon’s wish, Verizon suffered an hours-long outage that people could work around relatively easily if their phones were unlocked to allow them to add a third-party eSIM.

1/15/2026: Wikipedia Is Now 25 Years Old [Citation Not Needed], PCMag

I had made a mental note to myself to write an essay about the free online encyclopedia hitting the quarter-century mark, but then the actual date snuck up on me. Fortunately, the lede and the headline basically wrote themselves.

1/17/2026: Donut Labs’ Solid-State Battery-Powered Motorcycle Turned Heads at CES, But Big Questions Remain, PCMag

Writing this left me feeling over my skis more than usual–I don’t cover battery technology in any great depth, this startup has disclosed almost nothing about the design of its solid-state batteries, and two outside analysts weren’t willing to assess their pitch. But reading up at length on this company and on others working on better EV batteries did make me realize one thing: There’s enough innovation happening here that we don’t need Donut’s invention to work.

1/17/2026: AI Is Still Hammering News Sites, Google Search and Social Referrals Plunge, PCMag

The brutal declines in Google search traffic reported in a study published Monday by the University of Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism caught my eyes and those of my editors, but I also found some news value in this report’s stats about which online platforms and technologies newsroom leaders plan to emphasize or back away from.

#AI #AIOverview #BrendanCarr #ces #DonutLab #EVBattery #FCC #phoneUnlocking #SIMLock #smartphoneUnlock #solidStateBattery #verizon #Wikipedia

Trump FCC Helps Verizon Make It Harder For You To Switch Wireless Carriers

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/16/trump-fcc-helps-verizon-make-it-harder-for-you-to-switch-wireless-carriers/

When He’s Not Busy Censoring Comedians, Brendan Carr Is Eliminating Free Wi-Fi For Poor Rural School Kids

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/06/when-hes-not-busy-censoring-comedians-brendan-carr-is-eliminating-free-wi-fi-for-poor-rural-school-kids/

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: Starlink on United, spectrum policy, Google updates (x3), Ecosia, Charter to buy Cox, user-groups talk

I’m flying to San Francisco tomorrow evening only to turn left at SFO so I can spend the next two days in Mountain View for Google I/O–my 12th trip to cover Google’s developer conference.

(This past week also involved flying, but only for fun; Patreon readers got a breakdown of the long miles-and-points game that led up to my bucket-list 747 flight.)

5/13/2025: I Tested Starlink on a United Airlines Flight: It’s Fast and Steady Once You Get Past the Ads, PCMag

The strange sequence of airports on my calendar two Thursdays ago–DCA-ORD, ORD-ORD, ORD-IAD–yielded this recap of my experience trying out Starlink inflight broadband on a United Airlines-marketed Embraer 175 regional jet.

5/14/2025: CTIA conference shows how FCC spectrum auction authority is becoming telecom’s Groundhog Day, Light Reading

This post also started with reporting the week before from the wireless trade group CTIA’s 5G Summit in D.C., which I continued by quizzing Public Knowledge’s walking telecom-policy database Harold Feld.

5/14/2025: Google Unwraps Android 16 Design Details: Springier Animations, With a Side of Improved Battery Life, PCMag

I got an advance briefing from Google about its I/O announcements, which turned into three posts–the first covering some of the more important user-facing parts in Android 16 and Wear OS 6.

5/14/2025:Google Tips Big Security Upgrade for Your Phone in Android 16, PCMag

The second part of my coverage focused on the security changes in Android 16. If you’d like to know more, Citizen Lab researcher ‪John Scott-Railton took a closer look at them in a Bluesky thread.

5/14/2025: Gemini Everywhere: Google Expands Its AI to Cars, TVs, Headsets, PCMag

Of course AI will figure in Google’s I/O news, so part three of my advance coverage outlined Google’s ambitions to put its Gemini AI platform on some less-obvious screens.

5/16/2025: This Search Engine Uses Its Earnings to Help the Environment. New Dashboard Lets You Track Your Impact, PCMag

I’ve written about the environment-minded search site Ecosia a few times over the past few years, which was apparently enough times to get their PR folks to offer me a heads-up about this announcement.

5/16/2025: Charter to Buy Cox: We Have Questions About What This Means for Your Plan, PCMag

This was the one post I didn’t have anywhere on my cloud of probabilities for this week, but I had enough free time Friday to write up Charter Communications’ deal to buy Cox Communications and turn the second- and third-biggest cable broadband providers into the biggest cable ISP.

5/17/2025: May 2025: Rob Pegoraro: 2025 in Tech: what fresh hell is this?, Washington Apple Pi/Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society/Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Personal Computer User Group

I made my more-or-less annual appearance before these three user groups (last summer’s was via Zoom), unpacking some serious concerns I have about the state of tech but also sharing some reasons for optimism. And as I’ve done in earlier IRL appearances, I showed up with a bag of tech-event swag and gave away almost all of it.

#5GSpectrum #Android16 #BrendanCarr #CharterCommunications #Cox #CTIA #Ecosia #google #GoogleIO #IO #OLLI #PATACS #spectrum #spectrumAuctionAuthority #Starlink #UnitedAirlines #userGroup #WashingtonApplePi #WearOS6

The #POTUS administration & #BrendanCarr criticise the 🇪🇺 Digital Service Act. But thanks to #FLOTUS and her Take It Down Act there are bridges to be build, because there are limits to free speech, if it breaks the law. #HennaVirkkunen #RenateNikolay

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2025/03/readout-from-first-lady-melania-trumps-roundtable-discussion-on-online-protection-and-the-take-it-down-act/

US-Telekom-Regulierungsbehörde unterstützt EU-Initiative https://www.euractiv.de/section/innovation/news/us-telekom-regulierungsbehoerde-unterstuetzt-eu-initiative/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #5G #BrendanCarr #Datenverkehr #Investitionen