Section 5.2 - Q4 - What Does Project 2025 Say?

“Impose transparency rules on Big Tech. Today, Big Tech offers a black box. After Google manipulates search results, a small business can see its web traffic drop precipitously overnight for no apparent reason, potentially flipping its outlook from black to red. On Facebook, social media posts are left up or taken down, accounts suspended or permanently banned, without any apparent consistency. Out of the blue, YouTube can demonetize individuals who have risked their capital and invested their labor to build online businesses.”

Citation: Project 2025, Section 5.2: Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, page 880, paragraph 4

Context:

This is another nonsensical position. Again, Google is a private business, whom they have deemed allowed to make their own choices about their business. Google has never claimed to be neutral, and is not obligated to be. Forcing them to make particular decisions amounts to government overreach. One option is that the government is welcome to fire up their own search engine, which they’re free to manipulate as they see fit. No private business is required to platform anyone they don’t want to.

This entire section so far amounts to Republicans being outraged that private companies are behaving exactly as Republicans have dictated.

Republicans: Do whatever you want.
Big Tech: Okay.
Republicans: NO NOT LIKE THAT.

This position is SO far opposed to what Carr claims to want, that one wonders if he’s claiming he wants free speech, but really doesn’t (and knows that what he’s calling for will result in killing it.)

Full contextual analysis of Section 5.2: Federal Communications Commission here.

Section: Section 5.2: Federal Communications Commission

Categories: Big Tech, First Amendment, The FCC