DirecTV to stop carrying OANN

[Roll Roons]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-14/directv-to-drop-one-america-news-in-blow-to-conservative-channel?sref=yYYRek8e

[Kahane's Grave Is A Gender-Neutral Bathroom]

Lol the QAnon people are going to have to decide how 'private companies can do whatever they want' doesn't apply in this business decision by a private company.

[DavidB.]

Lol the QAnon people are going to have to decide how 'private companies can do whatever they want' doesn't apply in this business decision by a private company.

If this means America Firsters abandon mindless capitalism, then good.

[Shaula🏳️‍⚧️]

Lol the QAnon people are going to have to decide how 'private companies can do whatever they want' doesn't apply in this business decision by a private company.

Not a single Qanoner thinks 'private companies can do whatever they want'. The Trumpist base aren't pro-corporation, they actively advocate for government regulation on big tech after all.
Idk why this "own" keeps coming up, you're not saying it to Lindsey Graham or Mitch McConnell. In fact it's more hypocritical for Democrats to say "well they're a private company they can do whatever they want" when they are openly pro-regulation.

[Hammy]

Lol the QAnon people are going to have to decide how 'private companies can do whatever they want' doesn't apply in this business decision by a private company.

Not a single Qanoner thinks 'private companies can do whatever they want'. The Trumpist base aren't pro-corporation, they actively advocate for government regulation on big tech after all.
Idk why this "own" keeps coming up, you're not saying it to Lindsey Graham or Mitch McConnell. In fact it's more hypocritical for Democrats to say "well they're a private company they can do whatever they want" when they are openly pro-regulation.

The precedent was established when they decided that businesses could hide behind religion and avoid anti-discrimination laws (which are a government regulation), or skirt health and safety regulations, or not pay taxes (while still receiving tax refunds), or treat their employees like equipment they can just throw away when they break--all things that these fools support.

But now they want to suddenly complain about unregulated business now that they're the ones on the receiving end of these decisions.

[DrScholl]

This isn't an issue where regulation would be a factor. Cable and satellite carriers can opt to drop any channels they want to and it's been done before. They aren't really even dropping it per se, but declining to renew the contract.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Lol the QAnon people are going to have to decide how 'private companies can do whatever they want' doesn't apply in this business decision by a private company.

Not a single Qanoner thinks 'private companies can do whatever they want'. The Trumpist base aren't pro-corporation, they actively advocate for government regulation on big tech after all.
Idk why this "own" keeps coming up, you're not saying it to Lindsey Graham or Mitch McConnell. In fact it's more hypocritical for Democrats to say "well they're a private company they can do whatever they want" when they are openly pro-regulation.

What law exists that requires a satellite TV provider to carry any channel?

[SteveRogers]

Lol the QAnon people are going to have to decide how 'private companies can do whatever they want' doesn't apply in this business decision by a private company.

Not a single Qanoner thinks 'private companies can do whatever they want'. The Trumpist base aren't pro-corporation, they actively advocate for government regulation on big tech after all.
Idk why this "own" keeps coming up, you're not saying it to Lindsey Graham or Mitch McConnell. In fact it's more hypocritical for Democrats to say "well they're a private company they can do whatever they want" when they are openly pro-regulation.

This again? This is not the “gotcha” that you think it is. Being “pro-regulation” in a broad conceptual sense doesn’t mean Democrats are required to support whatever inane regulation Trumpists happen to support on a given day because some company was rude to a Republican for once. I can support big media and tech companies being subject to anti-trust laws, higher taxes, protections for workers, environmental regulations, etc. while also recognizing that said corporations have basic rights to freedom of association and freedom of contract. There’s no hypocrisy or logical contradiction there.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It's hilarious now how conservatives have basically turned into idiot DU posters who want to reinstate that joke of a law that was the Fairness Doctrine.

[KoopaDaQuick 🇵🇸]

I'm proud to announce my brand new news network, KoopaTV™! It's a 24/7 feed containing nothing but pre-recorded clips of me screaming nonsense into a 480p laptop webcam from 2007, with commercial breaks (all of them being My Pillow, nobody else volunteered) sprinkled in between. All of the editing was done by my 12-year-old little brother using Windows XP Movie Maker.

I'm super excited about this as I know that DirecTV, Dish, Comcast, Cox, Mediacom, Charter, Verizon, and every other TV provider on the face of the planet is obligated to carry my fine programming. Any company that refuses to air my rants about how George Soros paid lesbian Bolivarian hookers to advertise weight loss programs is clearly in violation of the Fairness Doctrine®, and should expect me to go straight to the Supreme Court.

[Middle-aged Europe]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-01-14/directv-to-drop-one-america-news-in-blow-to-conservative-channel?sref=yYYRek8e

Too little, too late.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Lol the QAnon people are going to have to decide how 'private companies can do whatever they want' doesn't apply in this business decision by a private company.

If this means America Firsters abandon mindless capitalism, then good.

Their alternative is probably worse.