It is only a matter of time before the Washington Redskins change their team name. Public pressure is growing on the popular professional football franchise to drop a nickname many regard as a derogatory racial slur against Native Americans. Eventually that pressure will grow intense enough that team owner Daniel Snyder will be forced to cave and make a switch. A group of former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) officials and other regulatory advocates is trying to expedite that process by pressuring Snyder with the threat that the federal regulatory agency could take action if he doesn’t change the team’s name voluntarily. Despite the best of intentions, the suggestion that the FCC should treat racially sensitive terms or team names as criminal speech is misguided both as a matter of law and in terms of its implications for freedom of speech more generally. …read more
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