Jawboning Versus Licensing Coercion

The article distinguishes government ‘jawboning’ of platforms during a lethal public‑health emergency from an executive using broadcast‑license threats to silence a TV host. It argues the former, while messy, can stay within constitutional bounds, whereas the latter squarely targets protected speech with coercive leverage. — This sharpens how courts, agencies, and the public evaluate state speech interventions by separating persuasion under emergency from coercion via regulatory cudgels.