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The FCC said it will seek comment on how wireline infrastructure deployment can be accelerated by using Section 253 of the Communications Act. The Act, according to the FCC, 'precludes state and local governments from imposing requirements that prohibit or effectively prohibit the provision of telecommunications service.' Currently, the FCC says that providers must obtain authorization from state and local governments to deploy facilities and provide service.

On September 22, Disney announced that ABC's long-running late-night franchise will return on Tuesday night, roughly one week after the show was pulled from the Disney-owned network's lineup in the wake of threats from the head of President Trump's Federal Communications Commission. "Last Wednesday, we made the decision to suspend production on the show to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an emotional moment for our country," Disney said in a statement released around 12:30 p.m. Pacific time on Monday afternoon.

So the question is, how did we get here? We have to look at Project 2025. There was a chapter called The Federal Communications Commission, and it was authored by Brendan Carr. He enacted some of this idea of the unitary executive theory. It takes away a lot of the checks and balances that the federal government has long had.

On Wednesday, bowing to pressure from the Trump Administration, ABC pulled the late-night series "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air. The show, which had run for more than two decades, was shelved indefinitely over a monologue addressing the murder of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk—one in which Kimmel did not disparage Kirk, nor, indeed, comment on him at all. Instead, he directed his contempt at those eager to exploit the activist's death: members of "the MAGA gang" who were, he said, "desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and doing everything they can to score political points from it."

United States President Donald Trump appears to be relishing in the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel after the late-night comedian's popular talk show was taken off air over comments he made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. He made a total FOOL of himself, President Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform on Thursday evening, reposting a clip from last year's Academy Awards in which Kimmel spontaneously took aim at the US leader.

"I'm very glad to see that America's broadcasters are standing up to serve the interests of their community," FCC chairman Brendan Carr told Sean Hannity last night."We don't just have this progressive foie gras coming out from New York and Hollywood." Carr's forcemeat analogy came as he and the Fox News personality celebrated ABC's decision to yank Jimmy Kimmel's late night talk show indefinitely following Carr's suggestion that his agency could force Disney, which owns ABC, to punish the comic for saying,

"We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them," Kimmel said. The backlash intensified after Federal Communications Commission chair Brendan Carr publicly condemned Kimmel's comments, calling them "the sickest conduct possible." In an interview with YouTuber Benny Johnson, Carr also warned that affiliate licenses could come under review, and that broadcasters are required to operate "in the public interest."