FCC Commissioner Gomez Accuses Commission of Targeting Disney

In an unprecedented letter, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez wrote to Disney’s CEO Josh D'Amaro regarding recent actions taken by the FCC towards the company. The letter begins with the following:

I am writing because The Walt Disney Company has once again been made a target by this FCC, and the record of its actions against your company demands a clear accounting.

What Disney and ABC are facing is not a series of coincidental regulatory actions but a sustained, coordinated campaign of censorship and control, carried out through the weaponization of the FCC’s authority as a federal regulator and aimed at pressuring a free and independent press and all media into submission.

You are not the first target of this campaign, and you will not be the last. But Disney’s experience is, by now, the most documented, and it is worth laying it out plainly.

The letter goes on to detail the FCC’s recent actions involving Disney. Commissioner Gomez concluded her letter by stating:

"I am committed to using every tool available to me as a Commissioner to shine a light on what this FCC is doing to curtail press freedom and to hold this process to account at every step."

This is an extraordinary letter. There is no doubt that going forward these issues will be very contentious at the FCC and on Capitol Hill.

You can access Commissioner Gomez’s letter here.