Republicans are trying to establish a new definition of censorship, one that apparently means “not giving us freedom to spread dangerous lies on independently owned platforms.”
Lately, we’ve seen this most prominently in the conservative movement’s complaints about social media moderation. Now House Republicans are taking the tantrum to one of the nation’s top television providers.
GOP lawmakers are up in arms that DirecTV might pull the plug on a major source of right-wing disinformation, and they’re trying to throw their weight around to stop it. In a letter late last week, more than 40 Republicans decried the possibility that DirecTV would no longer offer Newsmax — the archconservative, Trump-loving network known for spreading lies.
“It has recently been revealed that Congressional Democrats and the White House coordinated closely with private companies to de-platform, de-monetize, or otherwise limit the reach of viewpoints they oppose and classify them as…
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