President-elect Donald Trump has appointed the world’s richest person, Elon Musk, to jointly spearhead a new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). In doing so, the bureaucratic scaffolding that holds up the US government will be pulled apart by industrialist horses—sending shockwaves through virtually every industry vertical imaginable. The highly controversial new department is being established to cut hundreds of government departments and thousands of jobs, in a bid to save trillions of dollars. Not even the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an independent regulatory body, is safe. With some 1,500 staff currently on the FCC’s books, any significant reduction in headcount at the media and comms peacekeeper would have far-reaching implications on consumer protection, technology innovation, public safety, the digital divide,…