I tend to agree with this assessment. Throughout history governments have tried - no matter what they say otherwise - to control the distribution of information. This is a camel/nose/tent move.
Hopefully the courts will protect the internet as we’ve known it.
We need a real blockbuster ruling from SCOTUS. It'll take some brass for them to read the riot act to this administration. But fundamentally the FCC is illegitimate, and the FEC is worse.The FCC is illegitimate because it promotes broadcast journalism as if it were objective - whereas the very claim of objectivity by homogenous journalism is actual proof of its subjectivity. The definition of objectivity must be that the person attempting it must take full account of every reason why he or she might want to form the opinions which he/she finds him/herself espousing. And thus the person who claims to be objective is the very last person who might actually be objective.
Thus the claim of one's own objectivity is inevitably only a smoke screen for sophistry. And sophistry is what Homogeneous JournalismTM delivers.