A Congressman's effort to get an anti-Obamacare ad off the air reminds us what can happen when businesses depend on licenses instead of the individual right of property.
Americans for Prosperity created an ad criticizing Obamacare and bought air time for it in Michigan—but the sellers of that air time, the TV stations, don’t legally own it. They only have a Federal Communications Commission license to use airwaves. Lawyers for a Congressman who backed Obamacare have taken advantage of that fact to try to get the ad off the air.
“Failure to prevent the airing of ‘false and misleading advertising,’” the attorneys, representing the Senate campaign of Rep. Gary Peters, Democrat of Michigan, wrote, can lead to loss of a station’s broadcast license.
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