Carr Repeats Backing Fla. Republicans' Call on ISPs for Cuba

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr again backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez (R) and Republican members of the state’s congressional delegation in urging President Joe Biden to enable U.S. businesses to provide internet service to Cubans (see 2107150053). “Increasingly, dictators around the world are shutting down Internet connections when people yearning for freedom stand up to those oppressive regimes” and “we are seeing that right now in Cuba,” Carr said Friday. He said he stands with Florida Republicans “to call on the Biden Administration to put its full support behind efforts to end this Internet blockade. American enterprises have the technology capability to beam Internet into Cuba, and we must not lose any time in authorizing and clearing the way for the deployment.”