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Is this actually an official request from the FCC? The letter[1] makes it sound like personal grandstanding on the part of the Trump-appointed commissioner rather than an official action by a regulatory agency. If it's the former, the headline is misleading.

[1] https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/154182358595770777...

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Brendan Carr is also notably anti Net Neutrality. Reading the screeds of the supposed cypherpunks of hacker news begging the federal government to BAN access to an app by private individuals is hilarious.

Seriously. And I can't figure out how the CCP having information about me is worse than the US government having that same information when I'm likely to interact with the latter but not the former. I'd love for the FCC/FTC to enforce some kind of privacy standards on all apps, but that's not what's happening here.

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