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On February 14, the Senate Commerce Committee will consider for the second time the nomination of Gigi Sohn to serve as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Experts and lawmakers are pointing to a host of issues they say should disqualify her from consideration, including ethics concerns as well as far-left views on defunding police, sex trafficking, and censorship.
If confirmed, Sohn would give a 3-2 majority to Democrats out of the five commissioners that govern the FCC. The commission is an immensely powerful independent agency that regulates radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable communications and “maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security.”
Sohn’s nomination has been held up since October 2021 over views that critics say are extreme and make her unqualified to fill a position that is meant to be a neutral arbiter of media. In 2020, she posted a tweet calling Fox News “state-sponsored propaganda” and implying that the media outlet is a threat to democracy. She also shared a tweet calling former President Trump a “raggedy white supremacist president.”......
On February 14, the Senate Commerce Committee will consider for the second time the nomination of Gigi Sohn to serve as a commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Experts and lawmakers are pointing to a host of issues they say should disqualify her from consideration, including ethics concerns as well as far-left views on defunding police, sex trafficking, and censorship.
If confirmed, Sohn would give a 3-2 majority to Democrats out of the five commissioners that govern the FCC. The commission is an immensely powerful independent agency that regulates radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable communications and “maintains jurisdiction over the areas of broadband access, fair competition, radio frequency use, media responsibility, public safety, and homeland security.”
Sohn’s nomination has been held up since October 2021 over views that critics say are extreme and make her unqualified to fill a position that is meant to be a neutral arbiter of media. In 2020, she posted a tweet calling Fox News “state-sponsored propaganda” and implying that the media outlet is a threat to democracy. She also shared a tweet calling former President Trump a “raggedy white supremacist president.”......