Facebook censoring broadband claim, despite agreement on facts

Broadband deployments are ongoing. You can't take what Brendan Carr says at face value.

> I thought Zuckerberg promised Congress that it had stopped censoring posts at the behest of the Biden-Harris Administration.

I don't think he knows what "behest" means. The White House didn't order, coerce, or even request Facebook to do anything here.

Also, Brendan Carr's own actions under the Ajit Pai FCC are part of why BEAD program is behind schedule [1], though Ajit Pai was relatively more to blame back then:

> A big part of the problem was that the FCC under Carr & Pai structured the RDOF in a manner that almost guaranteed failure, ensuring those who could never actually build the broadband promised won the auctions. The end result was a ton of bids won by firms that couldn’t possibly deliver, or agreements to close the “digital divide” in places that didn’t have a digital divide.

> A big part of the reason why that failed so badly was that the FCC under Carr & Pai (despite tons of people pushing them to do so) failed to fix our abysmal broadband mapping setup, which at least would have helped the FCC determine where such broadband was really needed, and how to best provide it.

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/24/hey-brendan-carr-next-ti...