Carr specifically objected to the ad about
“The View,
” asserting that “the FCC wants to control who is allowed to appear on the show.” He repeated his claim that the FCC is simply “enforcing the provisions of the Communications Act that Congress has passed,” i.e., the “equal-time rule,” even though, as
Karl Bode wrote for Techdirt here, “The View was already exempt from this rule, for more than two decades. Even if it wasn’t, the rule hasn’t been enforced in 26 years because it’s a relic that doesn’t matter.”
