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Here’s FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr sucking up to Donald Trump by threatening to take NBC off the air

Kamala Harris appearing on Saturday Night Live is apparently a good reason to do government speech regulations.

Here’s the slightly longer, dumber version: Kamala Harris made a cameo appearance on Saturday Night Live over the weekend, triggering an FCC broadcast TV policy known as the “ equal time rule ”. This historical media dominance is how the government justified imposing speech regulations like the equal time rule on broadcasters over the obvious First Amendment issues. That all happened the last time Trump was in office, when he was still hemmed in by a functional legal system and a staff of career bureaucrats with a basic understanding of American democracy.

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