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FCC's Actions Against ABC Raise First Amendment Concerns Over Regulatory Censorship

Ben Sperry

19h ago· 8 min readenOpinion

Summary

The article argues that modern censorship in the United States no longer comes through outright bans but through regulatory pressure, using the FCC's recent actions against Disney-owned ABC as a key example. It frames this as a First Amendment crisis where government agencies use "oversight" and "compliance" as tools of political pressure to threaten broadcast licenses, effectively chilling speech without burning books.

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The government does not need to burn books when it can threaten licenses.

Why bother with an inquisitor's bonfire when a regulator's raised eyebrow can do the trick?

Censorship no longer arrives only as an outright ban. More often, it comes dressed as 'oversight,' 'public interest,' or 'compliance'—all perfectly respectable words, right up until they become tools of political pressure.

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The government does not need to burn books when it can threaten licenses. Why bother with an inquisitor’s bonfire when a regulator’s raised eyebrow can do the trick? That is the modern First Amendment problem. Censorship no longer arrives only as an outri

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