Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Commissioner Anna Gomez said on Thursday that through the Trump Administration, FCC, “is making its licensing authority a weapon to bring the broadcasters into the heel.”
Gomez, appointed by former President Biden, said, “I see it as a part of this administration of censorship and control.” Axios media trends live event“And what it is doing is making its licensing authority a weapon to bring the broadcasters into the heel, and in fact what they say about this administration to think about it twice.”
Gomez comments come a day after ABC Indefinite suspended Late night comedian Jimmy KimmelFCC President Brandon under pressure from car. Kimmel Gunner Criticism of President Trump And Republican MPs recently for their comments about the murder of Orthodox activist Charlie Kirk during the “Jimmy Kimmel Live” episode.
“We hit some new offering with the Maga gang over the weekend, who was trying hard to kill this child.Charlie Kirk Anything other than one of them can do anything and everything they can do to score political marks from it, “Kimmel said.
Late night comedian also said that Trump was mourning Kirk, which was Shot badly Last week, “The way one mourns at the age of 4 years.”
Carr, orthodox commentator speaking on Beni Johnson podcast On Wednesday, broadcasters are asked to take steps and to say this waste to the extent that whatever comes under the pipe in the future is not something that we feel that fulfills the needs of our local communities. “
Gomez pushed back against those comments, said in one Post on social platform x This “we should be firm against every attempt to calm dissatisfaction, punish satirists and government critics and destroy personal freedom.”
The FCC Commissioner was appointed by Biden to the agency in May 2023. His term ended on 1 July 2026.
Kimmel was suspended by ABC immediately after the Nexstar Media Group, who owns The Hill, announced that its local colleague would premiet Kimmel’s show. Carr praised the decisions from ABC and Nexstar, Saying on X “Broadcasives have long maintained the right not to air air national programs, believing that they are incompatible with public interest, including the values of their local communities.”
One in statement In response to Kimmel’s suspension, Gomez said, “We can turn an unforgivable work of political violence into government censorship and justification for control.” He called ABC’s decision to remove Kimmel from “Coward Corporate Capitulation”, which “laid the foundation for the first amendment in the danger.”
Gomez told Exios that by putting pressure on the broadcasters who are “speaking about this administration in such a way,” FCC and White House are violating the first amendment and Communication Act of 1934,
The law, which established the FCC, claims that the Commission does not have a sensorship power on broadcasters and “no regulation or status will be determined or determined by the Commission that will interfere with the right to free speech.”
“So, any pressure on these broadcasters is really unfair due to their content to change their broadcast,” Gomez said. “And I think it is important to note that FCC does not have the right, capacity or constitutional right to cancel the license due to such material.”
A White House spokesman said in a statement that the suspension “has nothing to do with the free speech-Jimmy Kimmel, who loses, is free to spew whatever bad jokes needs, but a private company has no obligation to provide him a platform to do so.”
“And a private company that decides not to give anyone a TV show is incomparable to the censorship regime of Biden Administration, where they pressurized social media companies to pressurize Americans to stop speaking from the opinion that they did not like,” said spokesman Abigail Jackson.
The hill has reached FCC for comment.
