Brendan Carr, a commissioner on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), rejected the Open Markets Institute's claim that the FCC has the authority to block Tesla CEO Elon Musk's purchase of Twitter, in part because Musk also owns Starlink.
. "Open Markets also believes the deal violates existing law, and that the Federal Communications Commission , the Department of Justice , and the Federal Trade Commission have ample authority to block it."Lynn noted that "the deal would give to a single man – one who already wields immense political and economic power – direct control over one of world’s most important platforms for public communications and debate.
"Mr. Musk already controls one of the most important internet platforms in the world – in the form of the satellite communications system Starlink," Lynn noted. "Since the late 19th Century, the U.S. government has routinely acted to prevent mergers between existing essential platforms. … This means that just as we would now expect the U.S. government to block a takeover of Twitter by Google, Facebook, Comcast, or Verizon, the same rules apply to the owners of Starlink.
Lynn ended the letter by encouraging the federal government not just to block Musk's acquisition of Twitter, but to regulate Facebook, Google, and Amazon by firmly reestablishing "clear bans on any manipulation of communications by essential platforms, and to eliminate all business models that rely on such manipulation."Brendan Carr, a Trump-appointed FCC commissioner, shot down Lynn's claim as "absurd.
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