The following statement may be attributed to the Free State Foundation's Director of Policy Studies and Senior Fellow Seth Cooper regarding the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project:
Today's unanimous decision by the Supreme Court rightly upholds the FCC's sensible decision to reform media ownership rules that date back to the 1970s. In an era of broadcast, cable, satellite, and Internet-enabled media abundance, government-imposed ownership restrictions on select legacy media outlets are arbitrary and they effectively restrict speech in tension with the First Amendment. As the Court found, the Commission's 2017 decision to remove some of its old media ownership rules was a reasonable exercise of the agency's statutory duty to periodically review and update those rules to fit with current marketplace conditions. Thankfully, Court's decision puts an end to the years-long analysis paralysis over media ownership regulation in the lower court.
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