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Outgoing FCC Chair Dismisses Complaints Against TV Stations That ‘Seek to Weaponize’ Agency: ‘The FCC Should Not Be the President’s Speech Police’
FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel dismissed four complaints and petitions against local TV stations that seek to 'undermine the First Amendment.'
In one of her final acts as head of the FCC, chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel ordered the agency to reject four complaints and petitions against local TV stations — which she says represent politically motivated efforts “to curtail freedom of the press and undermine the First Amendment.” Trump has picked Brendan Carr, the senior Republican commissioner at the FCC, as the agency’s new chairman, calling him “a warrior for Free Speech” who has “fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans’ Freedoms, and held back our Economy.” The “incoming President has called on the Federal Communications Commission to revoke licenses for broadcast television stations because he disagrees with their content and coverage,” she said.
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