In April the FCC ordered ABC’s eight owned stations to file for license renewal years early, one day after the President attacked Jimmy Kimmel over a joke. In January it warned late-night and daytime talk shows that candidate interviews may no longer be protected by the news exemption they had relied on since 2006. A government that controls broadcast licenses doesn’t need to censor anyone outright. The threat is enough to make stations think twice about what they air. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot: if elected, will you vote to bar the FCC from using its licensing power to punish broadcasters over their coverage?
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In April the FCC ordered ABC’s eight owned stations to file for license renewal years early, one day after the President attacked Jimmy Kimmel over a joke. In January it warned late-night and daytime talk shows that candidate interviews may no longer be protected by the news exemption they had relied on since 2006. A government that controls broadcast licenses doesn’t need to censor anyone outright. The threat is enough to make stations think twice about what they air. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot: if elected, will you vote to bar the FCC from using its licensing power to punish broadcasters over their coverage?
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