Yesterday, alongside Protect Democracy and a bipartisan coalition of former high-ranking FCC officials, TechFreedom filed comments urging FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to end the Commission’s retaliatory early review of ABC’s broadcast licenses.
“The FCC’s renewal process exists to determine whether broadcasters meet their legal obligations—not whether politicians approve of their programming,” said Berin Szóka, President of TechFreedom. “Once license renewal becomes a means of pressuring editorial decisions, every broadcaster has reason to wonder whether critical reporting could jeopardize its ability to stay on the air.”
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Read these comments and share them on X (formerly Twitter) and Bluesky. We can be reached for comment at media@techfreedom.org. Read our related work, including:
- Reply comments, joined by more than 50 scholars and free speech groups, arguing that the FCC Media Bureau’s reinterpretation of Section 315(a) is unconstitutional (July 6, 2026)
- Comments on Disney ABC’s FCC petition to classify The View as bona fide news interview program (June 22, 2026)
- This Isn’t Ronald Reagan’s FCC, The Dispatch (Apr. 9, 2026)
- Letter to the FCC expressing concerns over the abuse of the “public interest” standard (Mar. 20, 2026)
- Petition filed with Protect Democracy asking the FCC to repeal its news distortion policy, (Nov. 13, 2025)
- Brendan Carr-leone’s war on the First Amendment, The Hill (Oct. 2, 2025)
- Coalition letter expressing concerns about threats by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr (Sep. 30, 2025)
- Comments to the FCC regarding the news distortion complaint involving CBS Broadcasting Inc., (Mar. 7, 2025)