“We can do this the easy way or the hard way,” a clear-speaking, cotton-free figure said, quite ominously. In Trump’s first presidential term, on Feb. 14, 2019, Carr posted on X, “Should the government censor speech it doesn’t like? The FCC does not have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the 'public interest. Carr and others warned the FCC could cancel the licenses broadcast television stations need for failing to act in the public interest. Martin SchramMartin Schram, an op-ed columnist for Tribune News Service, is a veteran Washington journalist, author and TV documentary executive.