{"id":25921,"date":"2021-11-09T15:52:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25921"},"modified":"2021-11-09T15:55:57","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T20:55:57","slug":"wsj-agrees-senate-must-reject-extremist-biden-fcc-nominee-gigi-sohn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25921\/wsj-agrees-senate-must-reject-extremist-biden-fcc-nominee-gigi-sohn\/","title":{"rendered":"WSJ Agrees: Senate Must Reject Extremist Biden FCC Nominee Gigi Sohn"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent Liberty Update we sounded the alarm<\/a> on Joe Biden’s hasty nomination of extremist Gigi Sohn to sit on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), highlighting how she’s simply too radical to be confirmed to the FCC at a time when Americans rely more than ever on a thriving internet service sector that her agenda would undermine.<\/p>\n

Today, The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> echoed that alarm and explained the myriad ways in which she would threaten one of the few sectors that has continued to flourish throughout the Covid pandemic:<\/p>\n

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She was a counselor to Obama FCC Chair Tom Wheeler and was a driving force behind the ‘net neutrality’ regulation that classified broadband providers as common carriers under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934…\u00a0 The enormous regulatory uncertainty caused broadband investment to decline, though it picked up after the Trump FCC scrapped the rule.\u00a0 Ms. Sohn supports making the Wheeler rule even more burdensome…<\/p>\n

The FCC is currently split 2-2, and if Ms. Sohn is confirmed, Democrats will move quickly on the progressive agenda.\u00a0 Mr. Biden has also renominated Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel to another term as agency Chair.\u00a0 A source says Biden Administration officials wanted to name Ms. Sohn as Chair but worried that moderate Democratic Senators would then reject her nomination.<\/p>\n

Ms. Sohn\u2019s strident partisanship should disqualify her from serving as an officer of an independent agency with so much power to control the public airwaves.\u00a0 There\u2019s also a risk that the President could designate her as Chair after she\u2019s confirmed, as he did with the radical Lina Khan on the Federal Trade Commission.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ms. Sohn is simply too radical to be confirmed to the FCC at a time when Americans rely more than ever on a thriving internet service sector.\u00a0 The Biden Administration has only itself to blame for its delay in nominating Ms. Sohn, and The Wall Street Journal<\/em> confirms the growing consensus that the U.S. Senate should reject her nomination and spare us the enormous risk she presents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a recent Liberty Update we sounded the alarm on Joe Biden’s hasty nomination of extremist Gigi Sohn to sit on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), highlighting how she’s simply too radical to be confirmed to the FCC at a time when Americans rely more than ever on a thriving internet service sector that her […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[188,346,5155,308,148,1406,1229],"class_list":["post-25921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-fcc","tag-federal-communications-commission","tag-gigi-sohn","tag-internet","tag-net-neutrality","tag-tech","tag-title-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25921"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25926,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25921\/revisions\/25926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}