As a subscriber to AT&T and Direct TV. (AT&T owns DirectTV) I just called AT&T to voice my objection to their plans to cancel their coverage of One America News (OAN) OAN was the only channel that covered the battleground states’ legislative inquiry into the 2020 election voter fraud . Witness after witness came forward in each of the battleground state legislature inquiries that had signed affidavits attesting to their witnessing the fraud. These hearing went on for over a week or two. I sat and watched those hearings in each battleground state the whole darn day. The testimonies of the witnesses were mesmerizing ! No other channel would cover those hearings.
If you are also an AT&T and DirectTV subscriber and feel as I do, please call AT&T at 800 288 2020 to voice your objection to the cancellation of OAN. Please see the article below where the Republican senators are also demanding answers from DirectTV Nancy
Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.
MARCH 31, 2022
If DirectTV follows through on its promise to drop OAN from its airwaves, the network would be stripped its largest distributor.
A pair of top Senate Republicans are demanding answers from AT&T after a subsidiary of the telecom giant announced plans to drop One America News Network (OAN) from its satellite service by April.
“We write to you with grave concern for the future of journalism and political discourse in America,” wrote Sens. Mike Lee of Utah and Chuck Grassley of Iowa earlier this month. The pair of GOP lawmakers outlined potential personal interests in the decision from one member of AT&T’s board of directors. He also holds a financial stake in Dominion Voting Systems, which is suing OAN for its coverage of the 2020 election:
1. One America News Network (‘OANN’) is being sued for alleged defamation by Dominion Voting Systems.
2. Dominion Voting Systems is owned by Staple Street Capital.
3. William Kennard is on the executive board of Staple Street Capital.
4. William Kennard is also the Chairman of AT&T’s board of directors.
5. AT&T owns 70% of DirectTV, and controls two seats on DirectTV’s board of directors.
6. DirectTV has decided not to renew its contract with OANN.
Trump announces formation of own media company, social platform to counter censorship
The network is designed as a mission to “give a voice to all,” Trump said.
October 20, 2021
Former President Donald Trump announced Wednesday night the formation of a new media and entertainment company that soon will launch a social platform named “TRUTH Social,” seeking to shake up a media landscape often hostile to him and his supporters.
The network is part of Trump Media & Technology Group.
“I created TRUTH Social and TMTG to stand up to the tyranny of Big Tech,” Trump said in a statement announcing the network. “We live in a world where the Taliban has a huge presence on Twitter, yet your favorite American President has been silenced. This is unacceptable. I am excited to send out my first TRUTH on TRUTH Social very soon.”
The new media group has tapped as its leader Scott St. John, the executive producer of popular programs “Deal or No Deal’ and “America’s Got Talent,” and who has produced more than 1,000 hours of Network and Cable TV.
Jason Miller, the CEO of GETTR social media, offered his support to Trump for starting the new endeavor.
“Congratulations to President Trump for re-entering the social media fray!” Miller wrote in a statement. “Now Facebook and Twitter will lose even more market share. President Trump has always been a great deal-maker, but we just couldn’t come to terms on a deal.”
The network is designed as a mission to “give a voice to all,” Trump said.
The 45th president said he’ll also be launching a subscription news and entertainment platform.
The genius of America is that it was set up as a representative government, but increasingly, Americans are ruled over by leaders who are unelected, and very powerful. Columbia Law Professor Philip Hamburger unmasks the people who are really ruling our lives.
Philip Hamburger is the Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. A leading scholar of constitutional law, his books Separation of Church and State, Law and Judicial Duty, and Is Administrative Law Unlawful? are all considered “must reads” in the world of legal scholarship. He is also President of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which fights the administrative state. To join the new movement for civil liberties, visit the New Civil Liberties Alliance.
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday to regulate Internet service like a public utility, expanding the U.S. government’s oversight of a once lightly regulated business at the center of the country’s commercial and social activity.
The vote was 3-2 along party lines and starts the clock ticking on an expected legal challenge from the telecom and cable industries.
BlackBerry and AT&T are already making moves that could exploit new ‘utility’ regulations.
By
L. Gordon Crovitz
EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: This week Mr. Obama’s bureaucrats will give him the regulated Internet he demands. Unless Congress or the courts block Obamanet, it will be the end of the Internet as we know it….. The permissionless Internet, which allows anyone to introduce a website, app or device without government review, ends this week. On Thursday the three Democrats among the five commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission will vote to regulate the Internet under rules written for monopoly utilities…….. Utility regulation was designed to maintain the status quo, and it succeeds. This is why the railroads, Ma Bell and the local water monopoly were never known for innovation. The Internet was different because its technologies, business models and creativity were permissionless.
Critics of President Obama’s “net neutrality” plan call it ObamaCare for the Internet.
That’s unfair to ObamaCare.
Both ObamaCare and “Obamanet” submit huge industries to complex regulations. Their supporters say the new rules had to be passed before anyone could read them. But at least ObamaCare claimed it would solve long-standing problems. Obamanet promises to fix an Internet that isn’t broken.
The permissionless Internet, which allows anyone to introduce a website, app or device without government review, ends this week. On Thursday the three Democrats among the five commissioners on the Federal Communications Commission will vote to regulate the Internet under rules written for monopoly utilities.
No one, including the bullied FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, thought the agency would go this far. The big politicization came when President Obama in November demanded that the supposedly independent FCC apply the agency’s most extreme regulation to the Internet. A recent page-one Wall Street Journal story headlined “Net Neutrality: How White House Thwarted FCC Chief” documented “an unusual, secretive effort inside the White House . . . acting as a parallel version of the FCC itself.”
Congress is demanding details of this interference. In the early 1980s, a congressional investigation blasted President Reagan for telling his FCC chairman his view of regulations about television reruns. “I believe it is imperative for the integrity of all regulatory processes that the president unequivocally declare that he will express no view in the matter and that he will do nothing to intervene in the work of the FCC,” said Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York Democrat.
Mr. Obama’s role raises legal as well as political questions. Those harmed by the new rules could argue in court that political pressure made the agency’s actions “arbitrary and capricious.”
The more than 300 pages of new regulations are secret, but Mr. Wheeler says they will subject the Internet to the key provisions of Title II of the Communications Act of 1934, under which the FCC oversaw Ma Bell.
Title II authorizes the commission to decide what “charges” and “practices” are “just and reasonable”—an enormous amount of discretion. Former FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has found 290 federal appeals court opinions on this section and more than 1,700 FCC administrative interpretations.
Defenders of the Obama plan claim that there will be regulatory “forbearance,” though not from the just-and-reasonable test. They also promise not to regulate prices, a pledge that Republican FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai has called “flat-out false.” He added: “The only limit on the FCC’s discretion to regulate rates is its own determination of whether rates are ‘just and reasonable,’ which isn’t much of a restriction at all.” (more…)
