ABC accuses the FCC of violating free speech rights over "The View"

ABC is accusing the Federal Communications Commission of violating its First Amendment rights owed to the agency's scrutiny of its speech amusement "The View," according to a petition filed with the bureau connected May 7.

According to the broadcaster's petition, the FCC has demanded that ABC beryllium that "The View" qualifies arsenic a quality program, oregon hazard being forced to springiness adjacent airtime to each governmental campaigner who asks for it.

ABC argues that specified a request would "chill captious protected speech."

—This is breaking quality and volition beryllium updated.

Edited by Alain Sherter

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