Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr has received much criticism after appearing to pressure broadcast channels to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air following the comedian's misinformed monologue about the motivations of Charlie Kirk's alleged killer. But of course, libertarians have been warning that broad interpretations of the public interest standard will empower the FCC to engage in censorship for decades. In 1962, Rand penned a prophetic warning about the public interest standard, which then FCC Chair Newton Minow was citing as justification for pressuring television companies to create more educational programming. Rather, he charged them to make nebulous and ill-defined improvements to the product that he believed would be better appreciated by the American public—i.e., the public interest. When the FCC chair proclaims that a private company can "do this the easy way or the hard way," he is providing a similar kind of nudge.