FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington Slams ‘Un-American’ Calls to Block Elon Musk’s Twitter Buyout

FCC Commissioner Nathan Simington, one of the last officials appointed to the federal government by President Donald Trump, slammed calls for the FCC to intervene in Elon Musk’s deal to take Twitter private, condemning demands to prevent the return of free speech to the platform as unconstitutional and un-American.

In his lengthy comment, which was issued following calls by the Open Markets Institute and other left-wing advocacy groups for the FCC to use its power against Musk, Simington also said that the standardization of content moderation policies across Big Tech platforms has harmed competition and consumers.

Simington praised Musk’s stated intention of taking Twitter’s content moderation in a different direction, a move that the FCC commissioner said could “bring greater diversity to the social media experience.”