House Democrats Are Going After Cable Providers and Streaming Services for Hosting Channels Like Fox News and OANN

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When going after advertisers wasn’t enough to sink channels that hold conservative opinions, Democrats began shifting their attention to other methods of fascistically silencing their ideological opposition.

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According to The Hill, Democrats are now going after streaming services and cable providers for playing host to what they call “misinformation” and for breeding “radicalized individuals.” The companies they’re going after include Comcast and Verizon, as well as streaming companies like Hulu and Roku to question their “ethical principles”:

Reps. Anna Eshoo (Calif.) and Jerry McNerney (Calif.), senior members of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, sent letters to the companies on Monday questioning their “ethical principles” involved in deciding which channels to carry and when to take action against a channel.

“Some purported news outlets have long been misinformation rumor mills and conspiracy theory hotbeds that produce content that leads to real harm,” they wrote.

“Misinformation on TV has led to our current polluted information environment that radicalizes individuals to commit seditious acts and rejects public health best practices, among other issues in our public discourse.”

The letter specifically calls out Newsmax, One America Network (OANN) and Fox News.

The subcommittee is set to meet on Wednesday, where a hearing will take place on “disinformation and extremism in the media.” Democrats look to focus their discussions around channels like Fox and OANN being at fault for the January 6 riot at the Capitol. Letters have already gone out from Eshoo and McNerney to traditional cable companies, putting them on notice that they’ve been suspected of helping foment “real harm.”

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“Some purported news outlets have long been misinformation rumor mills and conspiracy theory hotbeds that produce content that leads to real harm,” they wrote.

“Misinformation on TV has led to our current polluted information environment that radicalizes individuals to commit seditious acts and rejects public health best practices, among other issues in our public discourse,” the letter continued.

Of course, the entire premise of the two Democrats is that everyone else but them is causing violence and misinformation to spread. The fact that Maxine Waters and Ayanna Pressley were literally encouraging violence means nothing to them. The fact that the New York Post story about Hunter Biden was censored beyond excusability makes no difference.

To the Democrats, they are the end-all-be-all of truth and justice. Riots are dangerous only when they say they are, even if the riots they fomented left billions of dollars worth of damage, jobless Americans, and destroyed small businesses in their wake. The only real science is the one they say is science, no matter how ludicrous that “science” is, such as the ever-changing narrative on COVID-19, transgenderism, and climate change. No argument or debate can be allowed because the Democrats have already figured it all out for you. Anything to the contrary is deemed “dangerous.”

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Interestingly, many of these Democrats consistently shouting that the right’s ideas, investigations, and facts are dangerous aren’t too keen on facing down anyone in a direct debate. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won’t go toe to toe with anyone if she can avoid it. You won’t find Pelosi, Waters, or any of the Democrats proclaiming asinine things about America, the GOP, and more on Fox News to answer for their positions.

This isn’t about misinformation. This is about narrative control. This is fascism trying to do what fascism always does; silence the opposition and reign supreme in both state and media.

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