They argued, well, it’s a “privilege.” The court, thankfully, shredded them and said that driving is basically a right that anyone may have access to if they meet the same standards set for public safety.
So, at least from that court’s view, it’s a “privilege” that people have an equal right to try to obtain and hold. Or something to that effect.
"privilege" (in the legal sense, not the social justice sense) is compatible with "equal protection" and "due process". "Privilege" doest mean "freely revocable gift".
I think there are examples of FCC censorship (regulating speech that they do not have the right to regulate, or doing so with obvious political bias), maybe even the one under discussion, but it is incredibly lazy to make these simple sarcastic comments that betray a lack of basic understanding or argumentation. You can make the case for getting rid of all the FCC's speech restrictions if you want, or for resolving what you might consider political enforcement action that is effectively political censorship. But sarcasm about how other people must be mad to tolerate something that has been going on for about 90 years, is pathetic.
Not allowing profanity is censorship even if most of the public is okay with this.
One can argue that there is a good reason for censorship but you have to call it what it is rather than trying to redefine the act itself.
I agree the FCC is all about censorship, but word games and snark is such a lazy and ineffective way to debate.