Crockett: FCC Is ‘Trying to Limit Free Speech’

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CROCKETT: "So from everything that I know, you know, the FCC potentially was the threat. And this is one of the reasons that I filed the Freedom of Speech Act of 2025. So, I filed that last year, dealing with the FCC. I think I actually filed it around the time that they decided to cancel Colbert, or it was around the time of Jimmy Kimmel, one of the two. So I actually filed a bill because what we’re seeing is that they are trying to limit free speech, and we know that they also are specifically targeting journalists. They are specifically targeting those late night shows that they don’t like. And so I wanted to make sure that the weaponization that we’re seeing from the FCC could actually be decreased. So, you know, listen, they have injected so much confusion, whether we’re talking about the FCC and the new rules, or whether we’re talking about, you know, voting. There’s so many people that have said they are confused by, you know, all of the chatter around the safe act. So confusion is the way that they like to lead, because even if they are not accomplishing their ultimate goal, by confusing people, it makes people think twice and potentially just not engage. And I think that that’s really what they wanted to do, was to keep people like Colbert from having some of these guests on. But we know that Jon Ossoff went on basically like a day or two later, and so it seemed like it was fine."