Brendan Carr

Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC

@Gaius_Didelphus 👋👋 — PolitiTweet.org

Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC

RT @Jaredtnelson: Day 22 of my Shanghai Covid lockdown As we feared yesterday, we have new restrictions Before we were allowed to leave o… — PolitiTweet.org

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@bradmwarren Congrats! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MGCCC: MGCCC is incredibly proud to be able to offer these programs for high-demand workforce training, at ZERO cost to our participant… — PolitiTweet.org

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Last year, I visited Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College to make a pitch with @NATEsafety for @MGCCC to stand up a tower climber program— good paying, high-demand jobs. Today, they’ve announced a $1.7M grant to launch a tower climber program at no cost to participants.💪 https://t.co/4tDmvQrxHJ — PolitiTweet.org

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One of the striking things about this Washington Post editorial board line—“The lesson learned from 2020 may well be that there’s.. a danger of suppressing accurate and relevant stories”—is that it doubles down on suppressing stories, rather than embracing more speech over less. — PolitiTweet.org

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I was way ahead of the curve on this trend — PolitiTweet.org

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If we're going to be urging each other to do things, I would urge Communist China to end their genocide and crimes against humanity. https://t.co/uRgPRXNZJ4 — PolitiTweet.org

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@JNSusskind @AjitPai @SayreEvan *low net worth. — PolitiTweet.org

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I expect the FCC will slap these down. https://t.co/JLGS5sMdeN — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BrendanCarrFCC: Jobs report Twitter always catches me off guard. — PolitiTweet.org

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Holding Big Tech accountable starts with ➡️ Ending Big Tech’s power to use 230 to censor with impunity ➡️ Transparency rules that end Big Tech’s black box ➡️ Antidiscrimination rules that protect your online speech ➡️ User empowerment so you can do your own content moderation — PolitiTweet.org

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I testified today in the House about the concrete steps Congress can take to rein in Big Tech. https://t.co/FsJSsDWbQn — PolitiTweet.org

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Looking forward to testifying this morning. — PolitiTweet.org

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Fin. https://t.co/jFMzC09ABG — PolitiTweet.org

Brendan Carr @BrendanCarrFCC

@DeskNavy @MZHemingway I’m with you. It’s terrible. — PolitiTweet.org

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Me talking about my testimony before Congress tomorrow: https://t.co/CsqnBzcHh2 — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Ali_Lev: NEW- FCC Commissioner calls on the FTC to investigate Crisis Text Line Cites data/consent issues raised in @Politico reportin… — PolitiTweet.org

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I’ve asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the data privacy and business practices of Crisis Text Line (CTL). While I’m glad CTL ended their data monetization scheme after my January letter, their ongoing practices + their decision to cut off discussions concern me. https://t.co/Z6aR7tKbZA — PolitiTweet.org

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@sfmnemonic My bad, I forgot about Godwin’s “get off my lawn” rule of statutory interpretation. ✌️ — PolitiTweet.org

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@FoxNews https://t.co/wE7BH29UtB — PolitiTweet.org

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Your argument that a private business, like a bar, can deny service to anyone for any reason is an argument that would sweep away decades of civil rights laws. The government has long (and lawfully) regulated the private right to exclude, including in appropriate speech cases. — PolitiTweet.org

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@sfmnemonic I’m not arguing 230 never applies to curation. Rather, if, to avoid a Turner result, a platform claims it does more than the type of curation a cable co does when it decides which channels to carry & instead “curates” like a Tornillo paper when it creates content, then 230(f)(2) — PolitiTweet.org

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@Klonick I am referring to the difference between a newspaper (which mainly disseminates its own speech) & many tech platforms (which mainly operate as conduits for others’ speech) and arguing that this distinction is part of why Tornillo and Turner came out differently under 1A. — PolitiTweet.org

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@jeffjarvis Jeff, if your position is that there is never a circumstance in which the government can lawfully regulate a companies' decision not to carry speech, then I assume you are reversing your position on net neutrality rules. — PolitiTweet.org

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Then Twitter likely walks itself right out of Section 230’s protections entirely through Section 230(f)(3), which excludes from 230 protections content that Twitter itself creates or develops “in whole or in part.” — PolitiTweet.org

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To the extent Twitter seeks to avoid this result—by arguing that it *is* speaking through others’ tweets (meaning, it is not simply carrying others’ speech like a cable co but individually choosing tweets & thereby contributing to the meaning of that speech like a newspaper) then — PolitiTweet.org

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And unlike the Miami Herald newspaper case, the type of regulations proposed here would leave Twitter entirely free to continue to express its own views in its own voice. The regulations would not penalize Twitter for anything Twitter has or does say in its own words. — PolitiTweet.org

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This isn’t to say that Twitter’s decision to operate as a conduit for others’ speech puts it entirely outside the First Amendment. Rather, it is operating in a roughly analogous way to cable systems in 1996–meaning, it is exercising a speech right that CAN be lawfully regulated. — PolitiTweet.org

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Unlike the newspaper case (Miami Herald), Big Tech is operating in the main as a conduit for other people’s speech—not it’s own speech and it is not making the type of word-by-word, individualized decisions about what speech to carry. — PolitiTweet.org