Posted on 01/19/2022 9:07:56 AM PST by Red Badger
President Joe Biden’s nominee for commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission hates Fox News and wants the federal agency to regulate conservative broadcasts because she disagrees with them.
The White House first announced Gigi Sohn as Biden’s FCC nominee in October.
“Gigi is one of the nation’s leading public advocates for open, affordable, and democratic communications networks,” the Biden administration claimed. “For over thirty years, Gigi has worked to defend and preserve the fundamental competition and innovation policies that have made broadband Internet access more ubiquitous, competitive, affordable, open, and protective of user privacy.”
Sohn’s inclination towards censorship and partisan regulation, however, torpedoed her chances of confirmation. Biden re-nominated Sohn at the beginning of the year but her chances of gaining Republican support are once again slim considering her history of criticizing and painting TV networks she disagrees with as threats to our democracy that need to be punished.
In one 2019 tweet, Sohn hinted that Fox News should be scrutinized because they “have played their own role in destroying democracy.”
“I agree that scrutiny of big tech is essential, as is scrutiny of big telecom, cable & media. And trust me, the latter have played their own role in destroying democracy & electing autocrats. Like, say, Fox News?” she tweeted.
One year later, after social media companies censored posts about Covid-19 and circulation of the Hunter Biden laptop story, Sohn once again asked: “So do you still want me to believe that social media is more dangerous to our democracy than Fox News?”
One month earlier, Sohn admitted that she had concerns with Facebook but said “I believe that Fox News has had the most negative impact on our democracy.”
“It’s state-sponsored propaganda, with few if any opposing viewpoints,” Sohn complained. “Where’s the hearing about that?”
In addition to holding a grudge against Fox News, Sohn also repeatedly expressed doubts about whether Sinclair Broadcasting “is qualified to be a broadcast licensee at all.” In a 2018 tweet, Sohn took her complaints from rants on Twitter to demanding action from the FCC where she had previously served as a counselor to a former chairman.
Unity ... healing ...
Flimsey Grahamnesty will vote to confirm.
He just loves to vote to confirm all of Senile Joe’s lunatic picks.
censorship to protect democracy ha ha
Let’s Go Brandon!
“It’s state-sponsored propaganda, with few if any opposing viewpoints,” Sohn complained. “Where’s the hearing about that?”
Is she talking about Fox News or PBS?
Weird how the far lefties like Gigi here hate the Bill of Rights.
Yet another creepy leftwing Jewish lesbian. [shudder]
They’ve cooked up another LEZZIE looking for an “Affirmative Action” appointment! Where do they find so many CLOWNS!
Just remember folks when you hear “democracy” just replace that word with “Democrat party” and it all makes sense.
...yes, let your fingers do the walkin’ and you will find
information about this miserable person’s “wife”.....
from another web site regarding (Mr...?) Gigi Sohn...
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Marital Status Married
Is she a lesbian? Yes
Wife Lara Ballard
Children One
Gigi Goebbels.
“Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.” ~ Joseph Goebbels
Can someone please point out one portion of 'our democracy' that has been destroyed? Maybe taking away personal freedoms with mask and vaccine mandates would qualify, but you can't blame Fox News for that.. 🙄
The Goebbels acolytes are in control...
Thought police everywhere...
Amazing how many government bureaucrats are actually fascists and mini-tyrants. And that’s one of the biggest problems I see with career government employees.
It has always been this way going all the way from today to Rome to Greece and to Egypt.
The heck with COVID. Bureaucrats are the true global pandemic.
Another ugly skank that has continually failed upward.
She is the living proof that Limbaugh’s’ definition of feminism was correct.
To understand a liberal, first you have to parse her words into what they mean TO HER, not you.
“destroying democracy” to her means limiting their ability to spread false narratives to further the Revolution.
‘democracy’ in its purest form is essentially ‘MOB RULE’ and THAT is what they are after.
When you hear them use the phrase ‘OUR DEMOCRACY’ they mean EXACTLY THAT, ‘THEIR DEMOCRACY’, NOT YOURS. It belongs to them, they own it and you cannot have any part in it.
Fox News, all Conservatives and all Libertarians are to be excluded from any national dialog at all times in all places. ONLY ‘progressive’ ideas are allowed air time. Everything else is heresy and will not be tolerated.
Little do they realize that they are the ‘useful idiots’ that they so blithely condemn.....................
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