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  • Re: [telecom] Opinion: If AT&T Can Silence Newsmax, Who Is Next?

    From Fred Atkinson@fatkinson@mishmash.com to comp.dcom.telecom on Wed Feb 22 03:07:18 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.dcom.telecom

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    Sent: Monday, February 20, 2023 7:02:29 PM

    By Alan Dershowitz, Emeritus professor of law, Harvard Law School

    AT&T's recent deplatforming of Newsmax, one of America's most
    influential cable news channels, should alarm everyone, including
    liberals. We are all at risk when censorship occurs - when one is
    silenced based on his or her point of view.

    The facts strongly suggest that partisan and ideological motives
    played a sizable role in AT&T and DirecTV's decision to remove
    Newsmax on January 24, when some 13 million homes were deprived of
    the channel=97including my own. After the recent State of the Union
    address, I turned to Newsmax for their coverage, but was surprised
    to find it suddenly missing from my channel guide.

    https://www.newsweek.com/if-t-can-silence-newsmax-who-next-opinion-1781867

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    To those who lost Newsmax, you can get Newsmax for free using a
    Roku. They have a channel app you can install and watch it to your
    heart's content.

    For OANN, you can watch it on your Roku using a service called
    'KlowdTV'.

    The cost of the service is very minute. I signed up at a time
    when I got it for two dollars and fifty cents.

    KlowdTV includes a number of other news and related channels as well.

    If there is ever a reason to become a 'cord cutter', this could
    be it.

    I dropped my cable TV a long time ago. I have been using my Roku
    to watch programming for years.

    Regards,

    Fred

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