Genevieve Lakier Discusses Free Speech Restrictions on TV Broadcasts on "We the People" Podcast
Can Government Officials Pressure Private Companies and Universities to Restrict Speech?
Genevieve Lakier, Professor of Law, Herbert and Marjorie Fried Teaching Scholar, and Eugene Volokh of the UCLA School of Law join the National Constitution Center's "We the People" podcast to discuss the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel by ABC and the broader history and constitutionality of jawboning, the practice of government officials pressuring private actors to stifle speech.
“There has been a long history of the FCC using their power to push and prod television broadcasters and maybe that power needs to be cabined or constrained in some way," Lakier says.
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