{"id":25936,"date":"2021-12-01T11:53:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=25936"},"modified":"2021-12-01T11:55:51","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T16:55:51","slug":"former-u-s-attorney-general-agrees-hyperpartisan-gigi-sohn-doesnt-belong-at-the-fcc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/25936\/former-u-s-attorney-general-agrees-hyperpartisan-gigi-sohn-doesnt-belong-at-the-fcc\/","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Attorney General Agrees: “Hyperpartisan Gigi Sohn Doesn’t Belong at the FCC”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our recent Liberty Update, CFIF sounded the alarm<\/a> on Gigi Sohn, Joe Biden’s dangerously extremist nominee to the Federal Commission (FCC), noting that, “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, and the Biden Administration has only itself to blame for its delay in nominating her.”<\/p>\n

In today’s Wall Street Journal<\/em>, former acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker brilliantly echoes the growing consensus that Ms. Sohn is simply too radical in a commentary entitled “Hyperpartisan Gigi Sohn Doesn’t Belong on the FCC”:<\/p>\n

In addition to her hyperpartisan social-media presence, Ms. Sohn has dubbed Fox News ‘state-sponsored propaganda’ and has urged the FCC to look into whether Sinclair Broadcast Group<\/a> is ‘qualified to be a broadcast licensee at all.’\u00a0 Set aside that Ms. Sohn is wrong on the facts \u2014 Fox is privately owned, not state-owned, and Sinclair has long proved its ability to be a broadcaster.\u00a0 What is breathtaking is her belief that the FCC\u2019s powers ought to be used to crack down on conservative speech.\u00a0\u00a0 Were the tables turned \u2014 had then-President Trump nominated an FCC candidate who endorsed a close look at MSNBC \u2014 the Twitter<\/a> verse would be horrified about the politicization of the FCC.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s important to highlight that opposition to Ms. Sohn isn’t simple, reflexive partisanship, since the Biden Administration could’ve nominated any number of qualified people who don’t pose the same threat to America’s flourishing communications and internet sector:<\/p>\n

Other possible Democratic FCC nominees haven\u2019t insulted Republicans on Twitter, nor have they insinuated that the government should suppress right-leaning views.\u00a0 In her no-holds-barred partisanship, Ms. Sohn is a uniquely dangerous and utterly unqualified FCC nominee.\u00a0 Her nomination should concern the press, no matter their politics…\u00a0 Republicans accommodated the Biden administration\u2019s decision to make Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel the commission\u2019s chair (she had been serving as acting chair).\u00a0 Despite some disagreements with her policy positions from Republicans, Ms. Rosenworcel is seen as an honest broker.\u00a0 Ms. Sohn is a different matter.\u00a0 Ideologues aren\u2019t a good fit in a job like this.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Mr. Whitaker wisely concludes, Senate Republicans and moderate Democrats must flatly reject Ms. Sohn\u2019s nomination, forcing the Biden administration to nominate someone who doesn’t pose this clear and present threat to free speech and the U.S. communications sector.<\/p>\n

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In our recent Liberty Update, CFIF sounded the alarm on Gigi Sohn, Joe Biden’s dangerously extremist nominee to the Federal Commission (FCC), noting that, “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, and the Biden Administration […]<\/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":[188,5157,308,148,1229],"class_list":["post-25936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-fcc","tag-federal-commmunications-commmission","tag-internet","tag-net-neutrality","tag-title-ii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25936","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=25936"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25939,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25936\/revisions\/25939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}