FCC Carr President Removes All DEI programs, including the Digital Discrimination Working Group

In a press release Posted on January 21, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Committee, Brandon Carr, has announced the end of the promotion of all programs of the Agency for Diversity, Equality and Inclusion. Included in the list of Dei measures being removed are the FCC justice plan and the special digital discrimination group.

FCC’s message came the day after President Trump’s executive order, entitled Termination of radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencesAimed at that of former President Biden Executive Order 13985 Targeting federal agencies to set up Dei programs.

FCC A Plan of Action for Justicewhich is no longer available online has helped additional programs aimed at overcoming the digital division, such as Affordable and an emergency connectivity program that focuses on Gap in the homeworkS In addition, the justice plan was a tool for improving FCC broadband cards and for the creation of a digital discrimination working group. The web page of the justice action plan has been archived.

“What Carr calls” Dei’s Justice Action Plan “is actually just a” Justice Action Plan “and has no connection with the executive order of Deia of Biden or any problems with the staff/operations, Bill Kalahan, director of Connect your communityHe told CNET.

FCC also announced the end of A special digital discrimination groupwhich Carr calls the “special FCC DEI group”. The Working Group played an important role in creating FCC rules for digital discrimination designed to fight the cases of digital red lineS The web site of the special digital discrimination group has also been archived.

“What Carr calls the” special FCC group “is actually a working group to prevent digital discrimination. Again, there is no connection with Biden’s Deia (executive order) or with internal staff and operations, “Kalahan said. “This is an interagency leadership group created to manage the rules of digital discrimination.”

In addition to the cancellation of the action plan for justice and the working group for digital discrimination, the FCC eliminates the promotion of DEI from its budget and eliminates the promotion of DEI from its strategic plan.

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