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Rand Paul: FCC chair had "no business" intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy

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125 points voxadam | 1 comments | 22 Sep 25 20:09 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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SilverElfin ◴[22 Sep 25 20:12 UTC] No.45338837[source]▶
But they didn’t intervene. He made a statement indicating they’d look into it. Action from FCC would require the commissioners to vote. Not just a unilateral choice by the chair.

There is also some allowance for the FCC to regulate content under some circumstances, and it has been upheld as constitutional previously. Brendan Carr, the FCC chair, rejected doing anything about online content because it would be unconstitutional.

In spirit I don’t think government or large companies should be moderating or censoring speech. But Rand Paul should be focusing on the precedence of FCC being able to regulate things like “obscenity”.

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1. eesmith ◴[22 Sep 25 20:31 UTC] No.45339046[source]▶
Did the FCC intervene in any sort of regulatory sense? No, that would be the "hard way", which didn't happen.

Did FCC chair Carr use the threat of regulatory power to intervene in internal business at ABC? Getting ABC to obey in advance sure seems like the implied "easy way."

Both fit the first definition of "intervene" at https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/intervene - "To become involved in a situation, so as to alter or prevent an action"