Comcast is the newest goal of the new President of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, who decided to go after the company on its DEI programs. DEI stands for diversity, equality and inclusion, and refers to initiatives with the aim of hiring and supporting employees of underrepresented backgrounds.
The verge Reported On Wednesday, Carr asked his own agency to explore Comcast’s DEI practices, though a source told Gizmodo that the action was on the one hand without the rest of the commission agreeing. “We have received an investigation from the Federal Communications Commission and will work with the FCC to answer their questions,” Comcast spokesman told the news site. What happened to free markets and a small government?
President Trump lately signed an executive order Aiming for Dei, directing the General Prosecutor to “identify private sectors with” irregular and discriminatory “DEI programs.” Carr uses that executive order to go after Comcast. “I hope this survey on Comcast and its NBCUniversal operations will help the commission’s broader efforts to root invitation forms of DEI discrimination across all sectors that the FCC regulates.”
Dei has long been a goal of Republicans who say that programs are virtue signaling and disadvantageous Caucasian people. Supporters of DEI initiatives argue that various workforce produce better business results, as companies can make products that are pleased with all demographics and incorporate wider experience. Apple, Costco, and NFL are among the organizations that have kept their DEI programs despite President Trump’s crusade against the practice.
Carr also recently left after CBS During an interview it issued last year with then -vice president and presidential candidate Kamala Harris. He launched an investigation into the broadcast station after President Trump sued the exit, saying that a commercial, which it issued promoting the interview was misguided. Because the FCC controls broadcast licenses, its threats are not completely nonsense. Carr tried to argue that CBS abusively edited a fact-based news report that could lead to some punishment. CBS interview was simply condensed for a time, as commercials are short and her answer to a question was to fit into a 30-second place. Legal experts mostly believe that President Trump and the FCC have no position to go after CBS on a first amendment.
Even if surveys and legal threats prove fruitful, pressure President Trump has put to businesses and government organizations to change their practices was enough to achieve their goals. Companies from Meta to Amazon preventing their Dei efforts after his re-election. Paramount, the owner of CBS, reportedly Discussed settling with Trump Rather than going to judgment, as it hopes to complete a merger with Skydance, which would need the approval of Trump’s Justice Department. This is Trump’s world now, and we only live in it.
Ironically, while DEI critics often say that it leads to people employed, who are otherwise unqualified for the roles, corporate bosses often hire from their own social networks. When Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook, he hired Harvard’s friends, for example. Were those really employment based only on capacity? Similarly, Silicon Valley’s investment company Andreessen Horowitz Recently hired Daniel PennyThe former Marine, who was acquitted after choking a non -held man on the NYC Metroo. Penny does not have a major experience, but Andreessen Horowitz says it will “teach him” the skills to invest. At least in that case, Andreessen Horowitz is fine with Dei practices.
Even Dei’s supporters said companies like Meta and Google were simply window clothing with their respective programs. But the fact that they dropped them so quickly after Trump’s re -election talks volumes about why they made the moves. Maybe they never liked to have DEI programs first, but they certainly didn’t want to deal with four years of assault by President Trump.
