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Netflix Chases YouTube, Meta's AI Photo Grab, and Disney Fights the FCC
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Disney vs. the FCC Over The View
At 22:35 · chapter starts 22:20
Kara summarizes Disney's formal FCC filing — including the striking line that 'the First Amendment does not permit the government to sit in an editor's chair' [1] — Kara Swisher "The First Amendment does not permit the government to sit in an editor's chair, yet that is the seat the commission now proposes to take." 22:35 — before she and Matt dig into what's driving FCC Chairman Brendan Carr's probe of The View. The answer, they agree, is naked political ambition: Carr wants Trump to love him, and he was surprised by how hard Disney pushed back. That pushback, generating 76,000 public comments [2] — Kara Swisher "76,000 FCC comments on The View case: ABC's campaign urging viewers to weigh in on the FCC's investigation of The View generated over 76,00…" 22:45 , reflects both Disney's strategic skill at mobilizing fan bases and the show's genuine popular connection. The bigger narrative is the emergence of Josh D'Amaro as a more combative CEO than Iger, who famously stayed silent during the Jimmy Kimmel controversy. Matt notes that Disney is simultaneously wrapping itself in American patriotism — 24 hours of 250th-anniversary programming reaching 40 million viewers — while fighting back on First Amendment grounds. Kara and Matt both predict Disney wins this one decisively.
ABC's campaign urging viewers to weigh in on the FCC's investigation of The View generated over 76,000 public comments to the commission.
Disney's aggressive FCC pushback over The View is a deliberate early move by new CEO Josh D'Amaro. The company knows it has the First Amendment upper hand, and D'Amaro is choosing to fight from a position of strength at a moment when Trump's political capital is fading.
