People
6 entries in Fcc CensorshipAnna M. Gomez
Lone Democratic FCC commissioner who condemned the CBS decision as corporate capitulation to political pressureThe sole Democratic FCC commissioner who publicly called the CBS-Colbert situation 'another troubling example of corporate capitulation' and stated the FCC has 'no lawful authority to pressure broadcasters for political purposes.'
Bob Corn-Revere
First Amendment lawyer who condemned the FCC's selective enforcement as "naked partisanship"FIRE's chief counsel who accused Carr of hypocrisy — opposing the FCC acting as 'the nation's speech police' before becoming chairman, then embracing exactly that role.
Brendan Carr
Architect of the Trump administration's campaign to weaponize broadcast regulation against critical mediaTrump-appointed FCC Chairman who authored the Project 2025 FCC chapter and systematically used regulatory leverage — DEI investigations, license scrutiny, equal time threats — to pressure media companies into silencing critics of the administration.
David Ellison
Media executive whose corporate ambitions created the regulatory vulnerability that CBS lawyers used to justify censoring ColbertCEO of Skydance Media who completed the $8 billion Paramount merger in August 2025 and then launched a hostile $108 billion bid for Warner Bros. Discovery — creating enormous regulatory leverage for the Trump administration.
James Talarico
The Democratic politician whose censored interview became the catalyst for a national confrontation over press freedomTexas state representative and 2026 Senate candidate whose interview with Stephen Colbert was blocked from broadcast by CBS, triggering a Streisand effect that generated 6.4 million YouTube views and $2.5 million in 24-hour fundraising.
Stephen Colbert
CBS late-night host who publicly defied his own network over FCC-driven censorship of a political interviewHost of The Late Show on CBS who revealed on air that the network blocked an interview with James Talarico, then escalated by calling CBS's denial 'crap' — confronting his own employer on live television.