A legacy media host teed up Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr to join the chorus of calls for censorship following the assassination of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk, but Carr didn’t take the bait.
At the Politico AI & Tech Summit on Tuesday, Carr acknowledged the tragedy of Kirk’s assassination but denounced Big Tech’s history of censorship and supported recent shifts towards free speech at X and Meta. During the interview, the FCC Chair told Politico Senior Executive Editor Alexander Burns, “I think we saw a really dangerous bent towards censorship, particularly during COVID. Anytime you have a situation in which there’s an increase in government control, you necessarily see a decrease in free speech because the two of those are counterweights.”
