The company's surrender to Trump's extortion vindicates his strategy of using frivolous litigation and his presidential powers to punish constitutionally protected speech.
The Supreme Court may have reached the wrong result in FCC v. Consumers Research. But ruling emphasizes there are significant constitutional limits to legislative delegation to the executive.
Now is the perfect time for the FCC to change its precedent to comply with the First Amendment.
Even if the president was joking in both cases, he already has used his powers to punish people whose views offend him.
In a legal filing this week, Trump argued that routine edits to a CBS News interview he did not participate in caused him "confusion and mental anguish."
The president has launched a multifaceted crusade against speech that offends him.
Disney scaled back DEI policies this year. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr still opened an investigation.
The commission’s partisan “news distortion” probe is trampling the First Amendment to pressure the press.
FCC v. Consumers’ Research could dismantle a massive slush fund run by unelected regulators and industry insiders.
Carr advocates greater control over social media by federal regulators, despite a reputation for supporting free speech.
The full transcript shows the president's complaints about the editing of the interview are not just wildly hyperbolic and legally groundless. They are demonstrably false.
Brendan Carr has a clear record of threatening to suppress constitutionally protected speech.
Settling Trump’s CBS lawsuit won’t buy peace—it will sell out press freedom.
The company is worried that the president's complaints about a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris could block a pending merger.
Billions of dollars in government revenue is a no-brainer.
Brendan Carr is prepared to block a merger because he doesn't approve of minor CBS editorial decisions.
The unanimous panel has little difficulty concluding the FCC sought to exercise authority it did not have.
Marc Andreessen’s call to build clashed with Washington’s regulatory mindset.
Simple policy changes can unleash innovation, remove barriers, and secure U.S. dominance in the final frontier.
Plus: a listener asks the editors about fluoride in the water supply.
A challenge to the FCC's Universal Service Fee could produce a major administrative law decision.
The company, which says it takes an "apolitical approach" to rating news outlets, faces regulatory threats and a congressional probe because of its perceived bias against conservatives.
Brendan Carr’s plans for "reining in Big Tech" are a threat to limited government, free speech, free markets, and the rule of law.
"Reining in Big Tech," Brendan Carr says, requires scrapping liability protections and restricting moderation decisions.
A rural Arkansas county files more than twice as many FCC complaints per resident than anywhere else in the United States.
The decades-old regulation imposes burdens that no other media outlets are subject to.
The Republican presidential candidate argues that CBS and The Washington Post broke the law by covering the election in ways he did not like.
Despite his cluelessness, the former president's inclination to punish constitutionally protected speech reflects his authoritarian disregard for civil liberties.
How the equal time rule is helping him hijack the airwaves.
The Florida Department of Health sent a cease and desist order to a Florida news station after it aired an ad claiming that women with cancer would be unable to obtain abortions in the state.
A majority of the judges concludes this fee constitutes a tax, the authority for which is improperly delegated.
The move would lower the per-minute cost precipitously and allow inmates to better keep in touch with friends and family.
Growth of regulation slowed under former President Trump, but it still increased.
The senior Republican FCC commissioner blames progressive politics, while lawmakers and telecom companies blame bureaucratic red tape.
Net neutrality rules have been instituted and repealed multiple times in the past 15 years, and yet internet use has thrived in each scenario.
One viewer said it should be illegal to take the Lord's name in vain on TV—and that was one of the more coherent complaints.
Your donations help us take on today's Prohibitionists.
FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel has initiated a new rulemaking that would enact what are largely the same net neutrality rules tried back in 2016.
After five years without net neutrality rules, the fix for a problem that doesn’t exist is back.
How cable TV transformed politics—and how politics transformed cable TV
Plus: A listener inquires about the potential positive effects of ranked-choice voting reforms.
While Sohn’s record raises ethics and judgment questions, some attacks against her lacked merit.
Attempts to reclassify ISPs as common carriers are unsupported by law.
Net neutrality is an unnecessary and failed policy.
How the FCC went from regulating telegraphs to regulating satellites
I asked scholars, podcasters, and passersby how they'd change the nation's founding charter. Here's what they told me.
Sohn, whose nomination could go before the Senate for a final vote within the coming weeks, is stuck in the past.
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