The network mounted a more robust defense of free speech in a filing last month responding to an FCC review of whether \u201cThe View\u201d was subject to equal time rules. The agency argued that the law encouraged more speech but ABC warned that open political discussion was being chilled by the Trump administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Commission\u2019s actions threaten to upend decades of settled law and practice and chill critical protected speech, both with respect to The View and more broadly,\u201d according to a filing on behalf of both KTRK-TV and ABC.<\/p>\n\n
Associated Press writer Jocelyn Noveck in New York contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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