https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4996396-5-things-to-know-about-trumps-fcc-pick/

5 things to know about Trump’s FCC pick 

Wrote the FCC section of Project 2025  

Carr came under scrutiny from Democrats last summer for writing a section about the FCC’s agenda in Project 2025, the conservative Heritage Foundation’s policy blueprint for a second Trump administration. 

The president-elect has attempted to distance himself from the project, though Democrats have repeatedly targeted his ties to its authors. 

Carr’s section advocated for the overturning of Section 230, a provision of federal law that protects websites and social media companies from being held liable for content posted by users. 

FCC should issue an order eliminating the “expansive, non-textual immunities” social media companies enjoy under Section 230, Carr wrote. 

“Courts have construed Section 230 broadly to confer on some of the world’s largest companies a sweeping immunity that is found nowhere in the text of the statute,” he wrote. 

“They have done so in a way that nullifies the limits Congress placed on the types of actions that Internet companies can take while continuing to benefit from Section 230.” 

Amendments to Section 230 have been floated for years. A petition by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration was filed in July 2020 shortly before President Biden’s win to clarify Section 230 provisions but remains pending before the FCC. 

“I think that the first step for him would be looking at that petition and that petition was into the FCC’s role with Section 230. It’s never been interpreted to be within FCC purview but a number of experts in this space who are real lawyers … have said that there’s a case here,” Nathan Leamer, CEO of Fixed Gear Strategies and a former aide to Pai, told The Hill.