Legal scholars and free speech advocates warned Wednesday that Federal Communications Commission Chairman BrendanCarr ’s increasingly vocal interventions in broadcast content decisions were edging toward coercion.
[ . . . ]Ashkhen Kazaryan, senior legal fellow for the Future of Free Speech, cautioned that “jawboning,” or political pressure on media, was not confined to one party. She said power “gets to your head,” and warned that Washington is normalizing behavior that threatens independent journalism.
“We’re normalizing jawboning, and that’s what I’m worried about the most,” Kazaryan said.
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Ashkhen Kazaryan is a Senior Legal Fellow at The Future of Free Speech, where she leads initiatives to protect free expression and shape policies that uphold the First Amendment in the digital age.