The FCC is using its regulatory power to intimidate media conglomerates into suppressing content that is critical of the administration.

“This is a government censorship. This is a government threatening a private business with regulation or in the case of of these local affiliates, potential financial collapse if they do not do what the government wants.”

The equal time rule is a legitimate, long-standing FCC policy that applies to broadcast television during election seasons.

“You you you might have heard of this thing called the equal time rule, okay? It's an old FCC rule that applies only to radio and broadcast television, not cable or streaming, that says if a show has a candidate on during an election, they have to have all that candidates's opponents on as well.”

The FCC's current threats to revoke television station licenses over content they disagree with are legally dubious and prohibited under the law.

“But one thing I want to say here is this veiled threat he was making, it's really legally dubious. The FCC can't go willy-nilly grabbing licenses because it disagrees with the content. In fact, it's totally prohibited under the law.”