Our deep dive (73pp) into the FCC forcing ABC to apply to renew its broadcast licenses, the most egregious abuse of power in the 92-year history of the FCC. This is Carr at his most shameless, ruthless, and dangerous. techfreedom.org/fcc-cant-use...
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Berin Szóka
Профиль VivelyPresident @TechFreedom.org | 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺🗽 | Lawyer: tech, free speech, FTC, FCC, admin | “Resident Antagonist”—Politico | “The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right” | 🇫🇷🏳️🌈📚⛰️🥾🚣🎼 | doing PhD in 🇪🇺/🇺🇸 platform law @ Dublin City U
I'm very proud to have helped organize this coalition through @techfreedom.org
Protect DemocracyNEW: A bipartisan coalition of former FCC officials, represented by Protect Democracy, filed an opposition urging the FCC to terminate its early renewal review of ABC's licenses — a proceeding they call "an assault on free speech disguised as regulatory process." https://protdem.org/3Rjacrj
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Petter Törnberg‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...
The FCC is trying to suppress TV interviews with political candidates it doesn't like, starting with The View. This is part of the greatest jawboning effort in American history. It is wildly unconstitutional, as @TechFreedom's comments explain techfreedom.org/fcc-should-g...
FCC Should Grant ABC’s Petition and Stop Chilling Political Speechtechfreedom.orgParamount to state AGs: you can't stop us from buying Warner Brothers because you think it would reduce viewpoint diversity ✅ Elsewhere... Trump DOJ & FTC: reduction in viewpoint diversity is an antitrust harm ❌ Obviously, the First Amendment trumps antitrust law. techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...
"in Iran, we don't have homosexuals" - former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 2007 (not coincidentally the guy Trump planned to install in power as his puppet)
Katherine ClarkBigots like Andy Ogles have no place in America. Anyway…Happy Pride, everyone!
Carr's attacks on ABC are an "extraordinary demonstration of power and coercion directed at disfavored editorial voices, which sends a clear warning to every broadcaster in America" & a plain First Amendment violation says ABC in its application to renew its licenses techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...
techfreedom.orgI've spent much of the last nine months trying to stop FCC from weaponizing its news distortion policy. Today our bipartisan coalition asked the DC Circuit to require the FCC to act on our petition one way or the other.
The VergeFormer FCC officials want to force a vote on the ‘weapon’ Brendan Carr has invoked against broadcasters
Hannah Arendt understood perfectly why political violence only fuels fascism: “The practice of violence changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.”