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FCC Chairman Sends Letter To Google CEO Over Network’s Complaint That YouTube TV “Discriminates” Against Faith-Based Programming


FCC Chairman Brendan Carr sent a letter to the CEOs of Alphabet and Google, calling out the refusal of YouTube TV to carry a network, Great American Family, as a potential case of discrimination against faith-based programming. In his letter to Sundar Pichai and Neal Mohan, which he posted on X, Carr wrote that he […]

Carr acknowledged the limitations on the FCC’s authority over virtual MVPDs compared to cable distributors, as program carriage rules apply to traditional television. In his letter, Carr put the Great American Family carriage in the same context as his criticism of tech giants over their content moderation policies. In his latest letter, Carr noted that Google “offers a range of products that have benefited from the protections contained in Section 230 of the Communications Act.

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