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

    From [email protected]@21:1/5 to All on Mon Feb 20 21:02:29 2023
    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—including 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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  • From Fred Atkinson@21:1/5 to All on Wed Feb 22 03:07:18 2023
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    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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  • From John Levine@21:1/5 to It appears that Bill Horne on Wed Feb 22 09:26:46 2023
    It appears that Bill Horne <[email protected]> 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 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 ...

    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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