Brendan Carr (FCC Chairman)
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I'm just going to ask you just a simple yes or no question.
Will you commit here today that you will not move to revoke any media license for broadcasters or retaliate in any way against broadcast companies merely for choosing to host content that is critical of the president or says something that he may not like?
Yes or no?
Very simple.
Senator, any broadcaster that complies with the public interest standard is not in any risk at all.
If a broadcaster is engaging in broadcast hoax or violation of news distortion policy or political equal opportunity, there's going to be work for the FCC potentially there.
So you will not revoke licenses so we can go back that you will do it?
You won't revoke licenses or retaliate if they're simply engaging in...
free speech.
There is no First Amendment right to an FCC license.
The Supreme Court has said that the FCC enforcing the public interest standard on licensees is not a violation of the First Amendment or censorship.
Yes, Senator, I agree with you there.
So first and foremost, we have to make sure the FCC is hewing to precedent.
Similarly, we saw Democrats in Congress write letters to cable companies, pressuring them to drop Fox News, OAN, and Newsmax because they disagreed with the political perspectives of those cable channels.
And there again, it was cable.
No broadcast license, no public interest standard.
So the FCC has to write within the four corners of our precedents to be consistent with the Communications Act and the First Amendment concerns as well.
Well, my position on this is pretty clear.
We have a public interest standard that Congress has put into the law.
And there's a number of very specific rules and doctrines that flow from that.
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