Brendan Carr declares victory over the First Amendment

On Monday, the Freedom of the Press Foundation filed a ailment against Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr. The filing, sent to the Office of Disciplinary Counsel astatine the DC Court of Appeals, alleges that Carr had repeatedly breached basal principles of behaviour arsenic a licensed attorney, including by leveraging his powerfulness to power media outlets' speech. As a ineligible ailment it's a agelong changeable - but arsenic a document, it sums up months of Carr's escalating war on escaped speech.

While the complaint's examples spell backmost months, Status reports that the FPF's "tipping point" was Carr's caller support of a merger betwixt Paramount and Sky …

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