The War on Free Speech

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FCC challenges ABC broadcast licenses

The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday said it is reviewing ABC’s broadcast licenses, upping the pressure on the network’s owner, Disney, which is again under White House fire over a late-night monologue.

Those ABC licenses were not slated for license review until 2028 at the earliest. The FCC said in a filing that Disney’s corporate diversity politics may have violated anti-discrimination rules.

But the move, which Semafor first reported earlier Tuesday, comes a day after President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump demanded that the broadcaster fire Jimmy Kimmel, the host of ABC’s eponymous late-night show, over a monologue he made two days before a gunman allegedly attempted to assassinate the president and top administration officials at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, in which he said the first lady looked like “an expectant widow.”
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“If the evidence does in fact play out and shows that they were engaged in race- and gender-based discrimination, that’s a very serious issue at the FCC, that could fundamentally go to their character qualifications to even hold a license,” Carr told Fox in April.

The FCC and DOJ should be looking at the Department of War Crimes for race- and gender-based discrimination.

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FCC challenges ABC broadcast licenses

The Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday said it is reviewing ABC’s broadcast licenses, upping the pressure on the network’s owner, Disney, which is again under White House fire over a late-night monologue.

Those ABC licenses were not slated for license review until 2028 at the earliest. The FCC said in a filing that Disney’s corporate diversity politics may have violated anti-discrimination rules.

But the move, which Semafor first reported earlier Tuesday, comes a day after President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump demanded that the broadcaster fire Jimmy Kimmel, the host of ABC’s eponymous late-night show, over a monologue he made two days before a gunman allegedly attempted to assassinate the president and top administration officials at the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner, in which he said the first lady looked like “an expectant widow.”
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“If the evidence does in fact play out and shows that they were engaged in race- and gender-based discrimination, that’s a very serious issue at the FCC, that could fundamentally go to their character qualifications to even hold a license,” Carr told Fox in April.

The FCC and DOJ should be looking at the Department of War Crimes for race- and gender-based discrimination.

Snowflakes.