Disney Stands Up to Donald Trump Amid Debate Over the FCC’s Powers
Anna M. Gomez, a Democratic FCC commissioner, accuses the FCC and the Trump administration of exploiting the concept of « public interest » to carry out a coordinated campaign of censorship following the removal of « Jimmy Kimmel Live! » from ABC. An attack that could redefine the FCC’s scope of action. Anna Gomez sent a letter to Disney CEO Josh D’Amaro in which she addresses the Kimmel case: “what Disney and ABC are facing is not a series of random regulatory actions,… but a sustained and coordinated campaign of censorship and control, carried out by weaponizing the FCC’s authority as a federal regulatory agency, and aimed at pressuring a free and independent press as well as the media as a whole to submit” . Anna M. Gomez, a Democratic…