Comcast is the latest target for Brendan Carr, the new Federal Communications Commission president. He decided to chase the company through the DEI program. DEI stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and refers to initiatives with the aim of hiring and supporting employees from an underrated background.
Barge It has been reported On Wednesday, Kerr asked his own agency to investigate Comcast’s DEI practices, and the agency’s commissioner complied with it and began the investigation. “We are under investigation by the Federal Communications Commission and will work with the FCC to answer questions,” a Comcast spokesman told The News Outlet. What happened to the free market and small governments?
Recently President Trump I signed an executive order It targets DEIs and directs the Attorney General to “identify private companies with DEI programs that are “severely discriminatory.” Carr uses that executive order to follow Comcast. “We expect this investigation into Comcast and its NBCuniversal operations will support the committee’s broader efforts to eradicate mysterious forms of Dei discrimination across all sectors regulated by the FCC.”
Dei has long been a Republican target, saying the program is a signal of virtue and a disadvantaged white person. Advocates of the DEI initiative argue that a diverse workforce produces better business outcomes as companies can appeal to all demographics and create products that incorporate a broader range of experience. Apple, Costco, and the NFL are among the organizations that hold the DEI program despite the crusades against President Trump’s practices.
Kerr recently followed CBS in an interview that aired last year with then-presidential and presidential candidate Kamala Harris. After President Trump sued the outlet, he began investigating the station and said the commercials that promote interviews were misleading. The FCC oversees broadcast licenses, so the threat is not completely teeth-free. Carr tried to argue that CBS misleadingly compiled fact-based news reports. The CBS interview was simply condensed for time as the commercials were short and her answers to the questions had to fit in a 30-second place. Legal experts primarily believe that President Trump and the FCC are not in a position to pursue CBS with the first amendment.
Even if the investigation and legal threats proved fruitless, it was enough to achieve his goal that President Trump had left businesses and government organisations to change practices. Companies from Meta to Amazon preemptively abandoned DEI’s efforts after his reelection. CBS owner Paramount reportedly discussed settlement with Trump rather than going to court because he hopes to complete a merger with SkyDance, which requires Trump’s Justice Department approval. Masu. This is the Trump world today, and we just live in it.
Ironically, Dei’s critics often say it leads to being hired by people who are not qualified for their roles, but company leaders often hire them from their own social networks. For example, when Mark Zuckerberg started Facebook, he hired a friend from Harvard. Were they really employed based solely on ability? Similarly, Silicon Valley investment firm Andreessen Horowitz recently hired Daniel Penny, a former Marine who was acquitted after choking an unsuffocating person at the NYC Metro. Penny has no related experience, but Andreessen Horowitz says he “teach him” the investment skills. At least in that case, Andreessen Horowitz is fine with DEI practice.
Even Dei’s supporters say companies like Meta and Google are simply window dressing using their respective programs. But the fact that after they spoke volumes about why Trump’s reelection made them move, they dropped them very quickly. Maybe they didn’t like having a DEI program in the first place, but they certainly didn’t want to deal with the four-year assault from President Trump.
