President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to head the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, wants to stop the left wing media bias by protecting diversity of opinion.

“I think Americans have been seeing an unprecedented surge in censorship, particularly over the last couple of years. Look, I think it accelerated during COVID 19. Any time you have an increase in government control, you necessarily have a decrease in free speech, it’s fundamentally un-American. As you said yourself, diversity of opinion is so important in this country, and it’s gonna be one of my top priorities, is trying to smash this censorship cartel,” he said to NewsNation host Chris Cuomo.

“How do you smash it? … I don’t want to screw up your process by getting so into the weeds that it all comes back to haunt you in confirmation… What is a basic notion of who you target and how do you stop them from controlling their own platforms?” Cuomo asked.

“It’s actually pretty straightforward. So you asked, who’s part of this censorship cartel? Well, it’s multifaceted. One, you’ve got a lot of these platforms that are just acting on their own to censor speech. But two, what we saw, particularly during the Biden administration, was pressure from government officials to censor speech as well. We also have a cohort of advertising and marketing agencies have been working together, in my view, to collude to crack down on free speech. That’s an issue, I think, in part, for the Federal Trade Commission,” Carr said.

“So for instance, if you have companies that get together decide not to compete on a feature of business, including content moderation. That’s possibly a problem under our competition laws, and in fact, some of the Federal Trade Commission commissioners have spoken about it. The FCC also administers section 230 which is part of the Communications Act itself. That’s the provision that a lot of these technology companies have used to silence divergent speech. I think the FCC can take a look at implementing that in a way that can promote more speech, not less. So there’s a lot on the FCC’s plate that I would look forward to getting started on,” he added.

“Section 230 does two things. One, if you leave someone else’s speech up on your platform, like Facebook, it says Facebook isn’t liable if that speech happens to be tortious in any way. I think that’s a pretty good provision. It’s what I call a pro-speech provision. The problem is a second portion of its C2 which says that these social media companies can censor, not just consistent with the First Amendment, whatever those bounds there are, but with these special 230 protections and courts have read immunities into that takedown provision that are found nowhere in the statutory text, I think we go back to the statute that will put us in much better stead with promoting a diversity of viewpoints,” Carr concluded.