Policyband

FCC Chairman Carr Wants to Close E-Rate Loophole Exposing Kids to Adult Content

'If you bring your own device to a network supported by [E-Rate], you don’t necessarily have any filters on where you can go. Kids are ultimately finding pornography, and that’s a problem,' Carr says

Ted Hearn

Jun 5, 2026 — 9 min read

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E-Rate: In reviewing the $2.3 billion E-Rate program, the FCC is going to look at devices that students own but do not include the sames content filters installed on school-owned devises. During a June 4 interview on Fox News channel, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr indicated that he was concerned about such a loophole. “There are school districts that have read our law as only requiring them to put Internet safety procedures in place on the devices that the school owns,” Carr told Fox & Friends host Ainsley Earhardt. “If you bring your own device to a network supported by this program, you don’t necessarily have any filters on where you can go. Kids are ultimately finding pornography, and that’s a problem.” (More after paywall)