Gomez panel at NAB insists Carr’s broadcast threats won’t hold

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez took another opportunity to highlight what she calls an administration bent on “censorship and control” on Monday, but the lone Democrat Commissioner was selective with her other comments at NAB Show 2026.

Gomez moderated a full session in which First Amendment attorneys and press freedom advocates argued that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s ongoing threats against broadcast licensees are legally untenable, constitute informal censorship, and may already be generating the evidentiary record needed to challenge them in court.

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