Chair of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on May 21, 2025. Photo: Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

Jeremy Busby is a writer and activist incarcerated in Texas.

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The Federal Communications Commission this week advanced a proposal for censorship that received far less attention than chair Brendan Carr’s “ mafioso ” approach to the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel . But it will likely result in a communication crackdown that does more harm to a far more vulnerable population — denying incarcerated people one of the few tools available to expose abuse in America’s most secretive institutions.

At a meeting on Tuesday, the FCC agreed to move forward with a proposal to allow prisons to jam contraband cellphon

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