No DEI allowed for US mergers and acquisitions, says the new FCC chair

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No DEI allowed for US mergers and acquisitions, says the new FCC chair​


Brendan Carr said recent Paramount, T-Mobile, and Verizon deals could be affected.

by Emma Roth

Mar 21, 2025, 5:28 PM EDT

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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.

Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr said companies looking for regulatory approval should “get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” according to an interview with Bloomberg. Carr reportedly brought up Paramount’s merger with Skydance, Verizon’s purchase of Frontier Communications, and T-Mobile’s plans to acquire most of US Cellular as potential deals that could be affected.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or DEI, has become a target of President Donald Trump’s administration, with various federal agencies ending diversity programs and pressuring major companies to do the same.

“We can only under the statute move forward and approve a transaction if we find that doing so serves the public interest,” Carr told Bloomberg. “If there’s businesses out there that are still promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination, I really don’t see a path forward where the FCC could reach the conclusion that approving the transaction is going to be in the public interest.”


In February, Carr announced an investigation into the DEI-related initiatives at Comcast. He later sent a letter to Verizon to express concerns over its “apparent lack of progress” in ending DEI efforts, and asked the company’s executives to contact the FCC officials overseeing its acquisition of Frontier, as reported by Bloomberg.

Along with taking action against companies with DEI policies, Carr announced a “sweeping investigation” into the US operations of China-based companies previously placed on the FCC’s “Covered List,” such as Huawei, ZTE, and China Telecom.

The FCC will look into each company’s “current levels of operations” in the US, as Carr says the FCC has “reason to believe… some or all of these Covered List entities are trying to make an end run around those FCC prohibitions by continuing to do business in America on a private or ‘unregulated’ basis.”

Disclosure: Comcast is also an investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company.
 

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This shyt is so crazy

if your business says you're down to fighting discrimination, the federal government will do everything possible to ruin you

and brehs could were pushing anti-Kamala narratives six months ago :francis:
They still trying to defend the indefensible. At some point people need to be written off, because you can not see all this and still want to blame everyone else.
 
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The FCC is literally built on DEI

the mandate of the FCC is, "to make available so far as possible, to all the people of the United States, without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex, rapid, efficient, nationwide, and world-wide wire and radio communication services with adequate facilities at reasonable charges."
 

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Commented on Fri Mar 21 17:50:07 2025 UTC

DEI was put in place to help curtail white nepotism from keeping people out of jobs they're perfectly qualified for. Racists just cannot bring themselves to believe that minorities can possess talent and we're left with the dogshyt discourse we have now.


│ Commented on Fri Mar 21 20:04:16 2025 UTC

│ 100%. I am a grown ass 40+ man and my dad told me some shyt when I was 12-13 that changed my way of looking at all of this. Jackie Robinson, arguably the greatest MLB player of all time, was not some success for equality. Actual true success for equality would have been Jackie Robinson being mediocre as fukk and YET enjoying a long and successful career in the Major Leagues. We should not need to be unicorns in order to be given a fair chance. This is my current ongoing battle in my office. We can't call recruiting Black grads from top programs "diversity" when they will be working alongside people we recruited from middle of the road shyt. Nothing is more infuriating than this shyt for me.
 

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Commented on Fri Mar 21 17:50:07 2025 UTC

DEI was put in place to help curtail white nepotism from keeping people out of jobs they're perfectly qualified for. Racists just cannot bring themselves to believe that minorities can possess talent and we're left with the dogshyt discourse we have now.


│ Commented on Fri Mar 21 18:54:05 2025 UTC

│ I've been in arguments where they're saying DEI is racist. Diversity is racist 😐. These people are racist AND stupid and I'm down acting like they're not.

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│ │ Commented on Fri Mar 21 21:14:22 2025 UTC
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│ │ You know, on one hand I can understand their logic, doesn't mean I agree with it, but I at least understand how they could view DEI the way they do. But then on the other hand, every single time they see someone who isn't a white man in some position it's immediately "dEi HiRe!!!"
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│ │ And of course they never question if the white man is qualified, but you know they'll go digging if it's a woman or POC. That's why I've just started responding to people saying "DEI" by going "just say what you really want, say the n-word, we both know that's what you mean." They get real uncomfortable when you do that.
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│ │ │ Commented on Sat Mar 22 04:18:02 2025 UTC
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│ │ │ “DEI hire” as well as “she slept her way to the top” are such dismissive one liners against groups that aren’t white men that seriously get under my skin.
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│ │ │ │ Commented on Sat Mar 22 16:36:26 2025 UTC
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│ │ │ │ The insane thing about the "slept their way to the top" thing is it implicitly acknowledges men promote people they like, not whoever's best for the job. If an unqualified woman actually slept her way up, she could only do so by men promoting an unqualified person.
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│ │ │ │ Of course, a man promoting an unqualified person is totally cool. It's all the woman's fault.
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│ │ │ │ If they didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all.
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No DEI allowed for US mergers and acquisitions, says the new FCC chair​


Brendan Carr said recent Paramount, T-Mobile, and Verizon deals could be affected.

by Emma Roth

Mar 21, 2025, 5:28 PM EDT

85 Comments85 New

STKP211_BRENDAN_CARR_D


Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images

Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO.

Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr said companies looking for regulatory approval should “get busy ending any sort of their invidious forms of DEI discrimination,” according to an interview with Bloomberg. Carr reportedly brought up Paramount’s merger with Skydance, Verizon’s purchase of Frontier Communications, and T-Mobile’s plans to acquire most of US Cellular as potential deals that could be affected.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, or DEI, has become a target of President Donald Trump’s administration, with various federal agencies ending diversity programs and pressuring major companies to do the same.

“We can only under the statute move forward and approve a transaction if we find that doing so serves the public interest,” Carr told Bloomberg. “If there’s businesses out there that are still promoting invidious forms of DEI discrimination, I really don’t see a path forward where the FCC could reach the conclusion that approving the transaction is going to be in the public interest.”


In February, Carr announced an investigation into the DEI-related initiatives at Comcast. He later sent a letter to Verizon to express concerns over its “apparent lack of progress” in ending DEI efforts, and asked the company’s executives to contact the FCC officials overseeing its acquisition of Frontier, as reported by Bloomberg.

Along with taking action against companies with DEI policies, Carr announced a “sweeping investigation” into the US operations of China-based companies previously placed on the FCC’s “Covered List,” such as Huawei, ZTE, and China Telecom.

The FCC will look into each company’s “current levels of operations” in the US, as Carr says the FCC has “reason to believe… some or all of these Covered List entities are trying to make an end run around those FCC prohibitions by continuing to do business in America on a private or ‘unregulated’ basis.”

Disclosure: Comcast is also an investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company.
Are they confusing DEI with affirmative action?
 
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