Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Stephanie Jablonsky
“We have a jawboning problem in New York City. Brad Hoylman-Sigal, the president of Manhattan borough, just wrote a letter demanding that Mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘summarily suspend’ the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission’s partnership with the company Curb, which makes interactive TV screens for taxi cabs. Curb’s sin? Last year, it signed a contract with Newsmax to provide one-minute news updates for its taxi screens. … As we explain in our letter to the TLC, any attempt to condition TLC’s contract with the city on dropping a news vendor because the news they play is too conservative is classic jawboning.” (02/10/26)