Mon. 11/18 – More Smartglasses On The Horizon
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the TechMeme right home for Monday, November 18th, 24. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, we have the nomination for the next FCC chair. More hype around smart glasses. |
| 0:14.0 | About that Jake Paul Mike Tyson fight on Netflix, is YouTube now the king of the podcast, and a deeper dive on how AI is giving Wall |
| 0:22.6 | Street a brand new window into the startup ecosystem. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech. |
| 0:33.1 | President-elect Donald Trump is nominating FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr as FCC Chair, quoting Bloomberg. |
| 0:40.3 | Carr has served at the agency since 2012, including as an advisor to a later chair, Ajit Pai, and has worked as its general counsel. |
| 0:48.3 | Trump, during his first presidency, nominated Carr to serve as a commissioner in 2017. |
| 0:53.3 | Commissioner Carr is a warrior for free speech and has fought against the regulatory |
| 0:57.2 | lawfare that has stifled Americans' freedoms and held back our economy, Trump said in a |
| 1:02.0 | statement. In a statement after Trump's election victory, Harr highlighted his priorities |
| 1:06.0 | saying that the agency should have and, quote, important role to play reigning in big tech, ensuring that |
| 1:11.8 | broadcasters operate in the public interest and unleashing economic growth, end quote. |
| 1:15.9 | He reiterated those points in a chapter for the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 manifesto |
| 1:21.7 | seeking to influence policy in the second Trump administration. |
| 1:25.0 | Carr recommended that the FCC limit the scope of Section 230 |
| 1:28.1 | of the Communications Act to crack down on what conservatives perceive as big tech content moderation |
| 1:33.3 | abuses. Carr has aligned himself publicly with Elon Musk traveling to Texas to attend a rocket |
| 1:38.4 | launch for SpaceX, the billionaire space exploration company. Since joining the FCC, he has also |
| 1:43.1 | advocated for it to be, quote, |
| 1:44.4 | technology neutral when it allocates broadband subsidy funding, making more room for satellite |
| 1:49.6 | providers to compete alongside wired internet providers for federal broadband dollars. |
| 1:54.0 | In a December 2023 interview with the podcast this week in Startups, Carr suggested that a way |
| 1:58.6 | to get internet to areas that lack access is to subsidize |
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