Free Press says FCC cannot police children’s TV ratings

The immediate effect is a formal challenge to the FCC’s ability to police how children’s programming is labeled. That matters because the filing squarely responds to conservative groups asking for warning labels tied to transgender and nonbinary content, placing content-rating authority at the center of the dispute. For the streaming and TV ecosystem, the key issue is whether the FCC can be pushed into content-labeling territory at all. Watch for whether the FCC includes children’s programming ratings or warning-label language in any subsequent notice or proposal.