Candeub will be the general counsel of the FCC and report to Semafor. That cites a direct warranty from FCC chairman Brendan Carr.
Candeub has long been a vocal critic of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. Section 230 will have the opportunity to protect tech companies and other online service. The argument against repealing Section 230 is all the tech entities. That also included the social media companies which would become liable for what is posted on their platforms and that could lead the censorship.
In 2020, Candeub became one of the lead writers of an administrative petition. That also asked the FCC to get involved with the ongoing debates around social media content moderation. The debates were also sparked after Donald Trump accused the social media site of censoring conservative policies after companies like X. This is also correct according to the inaccurate claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election.
This will also attempt the curb section 230 and power wasn’t successful. The latest challenges have also failed. In 2023 the Supreme Court took Google and Twitter’s respective sides of the adjacent cases have tried to hold the platform accountable for allowing the content from the Islamic states that can promote the terrorist organization.
It was already anticipated that the topic of Section 230 would be brought up again during this administration. Alongside newly appointed chairman Carr, who has previously expressed a strong desire for Section 230 to be changed under this administration, Candeub enters the FCC.
Earlier in the new millennium, Candeub was an advisor to the FCC. He became a member of the Trump Administration in 2019 and served as both Acting Assistant Secretary and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Telecommunications and Information. In the final weeks of Trump’s presidency in late 2020, he became Deputy Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice. Having joined Michigan State University’s law faculty in 2004, Candeub is currently a law professor there.
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