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Sen. Ted Cruz said FCC chair Brendan Carr's comments about pulling ABC's broadcasting license sounded more like an organized crime boss than a federal regulator.

Cruz made the comments on his podcast The Verdict Friday.

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"If the government gets in the business of saying, ‘we don’t like what you, the media, have said, we're going to ban you from the airwaves if you don't say what we like,' that will end up bad for conservatives," Cruz said.

Cruz went on to say that allowing the government to decide which speech it likes and doesn't like and threatening to take media companies off the air was "unbelievably dangerous."

"I like Brendan Carr, but we should not be in this business," Cruz said. "We should denounce it."

The Texas Republican currently serves as th

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