Our deep dive (73pp) into the FCC forcing ABC to apply to renew its broadcast licenses, the most egregious abuse of power in the 92-year history of the FCC. This is Carr at his most shameless, ruthless, and dangerous. techfreedom.org/fcc-cant-use...

The First Amendment bars the government from retaliating against disfavored speech. TechFreedom filed comments opposing efforts to deny ABC's license renewals, arguing the FCC lacks the legal & constitutional authority to force early renewals or revoke its broadcast licenses. tinyurl.com/yken9y85

Today, @techfreedom.org's @berinszoka.bsky.social joined @protectdemocracy.org and a bipartisan coalition of former high-ranking FCC officials in urging FCC Chairman Carr to end the Commission's retaliatory early review of ABC's broadcast licenses. protectdemocracy.org/wp-content/u...

I'm very proud to have helped organize this coalition through @techfreedom.org

Protect Democracy@protectdemocracy.org · last wk.

NEW: A bipartisan coalition of former FCC officials, represented by Protect Democracy, filed an opposition urging the FCC to terminate its early renewal review of ABC's licenses — a proceeding they call "an assault on free speech disguised as regulatory process." https://protdem.org/3Rjacrj

Happy birdthday to me! 🎂🐦🐿️

Mover over, America 250. I'm ready for Burgundy 550: the anniversary of Benelux constitutional government. Sadly: "There are currently no major public events, festivals, or exhibitions scheduled to celebrate the anniversary of the Great Privilege issued by Mary of Burgundy on February 11, 1477."

Something I talked about repeatedly in 2024: 20 million people, to say nothing of 30, would be the largest forced population transfer in human history, larger any of the three post-WW2 transfers (partition of India, expulsion of Germans, partition of Palestine) or the post-WW1 Balkan cases.

🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 2w ago

Have to get serious because this is the thought that has consumed and motivated me for the past 2 and a half years. When Trump/Miller talk about 20/30 million immigrants to deport, and that number reaches 100 million for the real freaks like Bovino, verily I say to you: THIS IS MEIN KAMPF SHIT

Klobuchar: "Lindsey was loyal to his friends" Except maybe John McCain, his supposed bff?

amen

Petter Törnberg@pettertornberg.com · 4w ago

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

Why is replacing Planter hard? Literally the governor of Maine is ready to go. Janet Mills. This is a no brainer.

lol they voted Leave to get rid of the Poles and wound up with way more non-white immigrants. And now they'll vote for Farage... 🤦‍♂️

The FCC is trying to suppress TV interviews with political candidates it doesn't like, starting with The View. This is part of the greatest jawboning effort in American history. It is wildly unconstitutional, as @TechFreedom's comments explain techfreedom.org/fcc-should-g...

FTC's suit against WPATH will be dismissed before a court even reaches the obvious First Amendment Qs because the FTC Act applies only to "commerce" and thus applies to non-profits only when they engage in "commerce," which WPATH does not. 🧵

This is... insane. The EU spent untold hours of human labor and political effort to create the DSA's intricate system of rules for platforms. And the CJEU is just smashing it, like a toddler.

Steve Peers@stevepeers.bsky.social · 2mo ago

EU, tech law CJEU: Member States can require age verification for porn, and ban rebroadcast of traffic cop information also ***a website that controls what viewers see via an algorithm is liable for the content*** curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...

EU, tech law CJEU: Member States can require age verification for porn, and ban rebroadcast of traffic cop information also ***a website that controls what viewers see via an algorithm is liable for the content*** curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...

"Bread And Circuses," Artist unknown, but probably AI. #Satire

Paramount to state AGs: you can't stop us from buying Warner Brothers because you think it would reduce viewpoint diversity ✅ Elsewhere... Trump DOJ & FTC: reduction in viewpoint diversity is an antitrust harm ❌ Obviously, the First Amendment trumps antitrust law. techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

"in Iran, we don't have homosexuals" - former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 2007 (not coincidentally the guy Trump planned to install in power as his puppet)

Katherine Clark@whipkclark.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bigots like Andy Ogles have no place in America. Anyway…Happy Pride, everyone!

six years later, libertarian man still seething that kids couldn't congregate *inside* 🏫 while BLM protestors congregated *outside* 🌬️ (COVID had already killed 102,441 Americans and 982 more died on that day)

1/ I see my brief in Babylon Bee v. Bonta caught the California AG's attention What his reply doesn't grasp: this is the very purpose of Section 230 By creating an exception for federal—but not state—criminal law, Congress established the body of law for online intermediaries

We are excited to announce the promotion of @andyjungtech.bsky.social to our first AI Policy Counsel! Andy has played a key role in advancing our work on emerging technology policy, and this promotion reflects both his contributions and the growing importance of AI policy to our mission.

To its credit, ABC doesn't pull its punches in this objection to the FCC's transparently retaliatory, viewpoint-based, and therefore brazenly unconstitutional demand that it submit early applications for renewal of its broadcast licenses.

Berin Szóka@berinszoka.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Carr's attacks on ABC are an "extraordinary demonstration of power and coercion directed at disfavored editorial voices, which sends a clear warning to every broadcaster in America" & a plain First Amendment violation says ABC in its application to renew its licenses techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

great work y'all. keep it up!

American Bar Association@americanbar.org · 2mo ago

"If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable." On June 1, 1916, Louis Brandeis was confirmed to #SCOTUS.

Carr's attacks on ABC are an "extraordinary demonstration of power and coercion directed at disfavored editorial voices, which sends a clear warning to every broadcaster in America" & a plain First Amendment violation says ABC in its application to renew its licenses techfreedom.org/wp-content/u...

Fox isn't sending us their best and brightest

I've spent much of the last nine months trying to stop FCC from weaponizing its news distortion policy. Today our bipartisan coalition asked the DC Circuit to require the FCC to act on our petition one way or the other.

The Verge@theverge.com · 3mo ago

Former FCC officials want to force a vote on the ‘weapon’ Brendan Carr has invoked against broadcasters

Proud of the team @protectdemocracy.org and the whole crew for this work. This is not Orban's Hungary. @gbsohn.bsky.social @berinszoka.bsky.social @rtdna.bsky.social

The Verge@theverge.com · 3mo ago

Former FCC officials want to force a vote on the ‘weapon’ Brendan Carr has invoked against broadcasters

Benny Johnson: fire Jimmy Kimmel for his "expectant widow" joke and cancel ABC's broadcast licenses White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt just before the WHCD: "there will be some shots fired tonight" Will she be fired, too?

One shooter created so much fear and panic at the WHCD. Imagine how those trapped in the Capitol building felt on Jan 6 given an entire mob outside. Yet Trump supporters say that was a tourist gathering.