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Is a broadcast license revocation a form of censorship? Someone asked my co-author Steve Macek that question on Facebook, and Steve's response is worth quoting
by tiahura 3y ago
Is a broadcast license revocation a form of censorship? Someone asked my co-author Steve Macek that question on Facebook, and Steve's response is worth quoting at length:
It is not censorship to revoke Fox's TV licenses for failure to live up to the public interest requirements the FCC expects of broadcasters.
So, this proposed government regulation of speech isn’t censorship because some guy on Facebook, that I’ve never heard of, personally doesn’t like Fox.
Denying a license is exactly the sort of thing a Roman Censor would have done.