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

    From John Levine@johnl@iecc.com to comp.dcom.telecom on Wed Feb 22 09:26:46 2023
    From Newsgroup: comp.dcom.telecom

    It appears that Bill Horne <malQRMassimilation@gmail.com> said:
    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 occursrCowhen 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 ...

    I don't know what has happened to Dershowitz. He used to be a top tier
    legal professor, but now he's just trolling.

    The actual issue is that Newsmax demanded that DirecTV pay them, and
    DirecTV said no. They are quite willing to continue to carry them,
    just not to pay them. As many people have noted, if you want to watch
    Newsmax, it's easy to stream it for free.

    https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-01-24/conservative-news-network-newsmax-on-the-verge-of-being-dropped-by-directv

    R's,
    John

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