Gomez Takes 'First Amendment Tour' to Kentucky

FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez visited Letcher County, Kentucky, in the latest stop on her “First Amendment Tour” series of panel discussions. In a release Wednesday, Gomez said the White House and FCC’s “unprecedented efforts to censor and control speech reach every community, including the coal towns and mountain communities of Eastern Kentucky.” Her message to the state: “Now is the time to stand up and push back against this assault on free expression and remind those in power that the First Amendment is not optional.” Gomez’s Kentucky event was organized by the Center for Rural Strategies, a nonprofit “focused on improving economic and social conditions for rural communities around the world through the creative use of media and communications,” the release said.