Daniel Lyons on Brendan Carr’s Use of the News Distortion Policy
ICLE Academic Affiliate Daniel Lyons was quoted in a Washington Post article concerning FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s use of the news distortion policy:
Carr’s regular invocations of the news distortion policy amount to “regulation by raised eyebrow,” said Daniel Lyons, a professor at Boston College Law School, in which an agency creates enough threat to force voluntary compliance without formal action.
“You don’t have to go full Tony Soprano to have a chilling effect on speech,” Lyons, who reviewed the petition ahead of its release, told The Washington Post.
Read the full piece here.