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Discussions show that FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s informal pressure tactics—like encouraging broadcasters to self-censor—are actually an indirect form of government coercion that could be challenged in court. Courts have previously ruled that the government cannot coerce private companies into punishing or suppressing speech they dislike, emphasizing that any attempts to do so are unconstitutional infringements on free speech rights protected by the First Amendment.