Joe Flint, reporting for The Wall Street Journal (gift link):

Walt Disney’s ABC has sued the Federal Communications Commission alleging the agency’s efforts to challenge its broadcast licenses and regulate its talk show “The View” are illegal and an effort to quash speech the Trump administration finds objectionable.

In a suit filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, ABC said, “Again and again, the Administration has attacked ABC’s speech — the stories its journalists report and the viewpoints its network programs air. Over time, those attacks have escalated into express demands that ABC be stripped of its broadcast licenses because of its speech.”

This is how you handle a bully: “Fuck you, make me.”

Our local 6ABC affiliate here in Philadelphia is the highest-profile station that the FCC has targeted for a bogus “license review”. It’s impossible for someone who doesn’t live here to understand just how dominant a media presence 6ABC Action News is. The Action News theme song is, effectively, the city of Philadelphia’s theme song. Watch this and you’ll get it, trust me.

Marcus Mendes at 9to5Mac has a fun update on U.S. v. Apple, the ill-considered antitrust case started by the Biden administration. A bunch of what the DOJ argues are anticompetitive features in Apple’s platforms, Apple argues are in fact privacy and security related.

Back in July Apple won a big discovery ruling — Apple asked for documents from 14 federal agencies — including the CIA, FBI, Department of Defense, NSA, and State Department — to see the reasons why those agencies purchase iPhones, iPads, and Macintosh computers. And in July, Apple won. They get to see what these federal agencies say about those features.

The DOJ filed a longshot “Hey, no fair” complaint trying to overrule that discovery ruling. Now Apple has filed a retort saying the July order should stand, and the DOJ should get ready to argue in court that it’s unlawful for Apple to implement the sort of features that are the very reason why security-minded federal agencies purchase Apple devices.