{"id":1282221,"date":"2022-02-08T15:22:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282221"},"modified":"2022-02-08T15:23:04","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T20:23:04","slug":"biden-fcc-nominee-gigi-sohn-tied-to-far-left-activist-pressuring-kyrsten-sinema-moderate-dems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-fcc-nominee-gigi-sohn-tied-to-far-left-activist-pressuring-kyrsten-sinema-moderate-dems\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden FCC Nominee Gigi Sohn Tied to Far Left Activist Pressuring Kyrsten Sinema, Moderate Dems"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-fcc-nominee-gigi-sohn-tied-to-far-left-activist-pressuring-kyrsten-sinema-moderate-dems%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282221&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Joe Biden\u2019s embattled FCC nominee Gigi Sohn, whose nomination is already struggling on account of her partisan, pro-censorship record, is tied to a far-left \u201cdigital rights\u201d activist who once campaigned on behalf of an al-Qaeda terrorist who was convicted for conspiring to kill Americans, and is now applying pressure on moderate Democrats like Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ).<\/p>\n<p>During the battle over \u201cNet Neutrality,\u201d Sohn was the guest of honor on a podcast hosted by Evan Greer, the transgender and \u201cnonbinary\u201d identifying director of the progressive nonprofit Fight For the Future. Sohn\u2019s appearance on the podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/videos\/440317951\">can be watched here.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19802010\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Evan-Greer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19802010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Evan-Greer.jpg\" alt=\"Evan Greer of Fight for the Future\" width=\"1022\" height=\"748\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evan Greer of Fight for the Future (Evan Greer\/YouTube)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Greer is one of the leading campaigners for Obama\u2019s Title II regulations on internet service providers, which the Democrats branded \u201cNet Neutrality\u201d even though they did not apply to companies like Facebook, Google, and YouTube and therefore did not prevent those companies from engaging in censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Greer is running an aggressive campaign against Democrat Senators who appear to be wavering on confirming Sohn, one of the most partisan nominees of the Biden administration, to the FCC.<\/p>\n<p>Greer\u2019s organization, Fight For The Future, is running billboards in Arizona attacking moderate Democrat Sen. Kyrsten Sinema.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sinemaFTFF.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19801386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/sinemaFTFF.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"798\" height=\"388\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Greer has also unleashed a torrent of smears and conspiracy theories against Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA), calling the Senator \u201cdespicable,\u201d suggesting she has a \u201chas a problem with queer people,\u201d and calling for her to be removed from office.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_2961-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19801458\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_2961-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"411\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_2962-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19801466\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_2962-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"443\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_2963-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-19801474\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_2963-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"421\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Net Neutrality activists have a history of aggressive tactics. In 2017, as the FCC prepared to repeal the Obama-era rules, nationwide protests supported by Greer\u2019s organization escalated to the point where organized protests took place outside then-chairman Ajit Pai\u2019s home, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/news\/361998-fcc-chairman-stop-harassing-my-family-over-net-neutrality\">resulting in his family and neighbors being harassed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In her appearance on Greer\u2019s podcast, Gigi Sohn praised Fight For The Future and other Net Neutrality activists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFight For The Future, Free Press, Demand Progress, The Battle for the Net, they have easy tools to let your Senator&nbsp;know that this is important to you, and that this is something you vote on, that this is something you care deeply&nbsp;about, and you\u2019ll vote their butts out of office if they don\u2019t vote for this bill,\u201d said Sohn.<\/p>\n<p>The FCC nominee told Greer that they would \u201ccelebrate together\u201d when Net Neutrality is reinstated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>News of Sohn\u2019s ties to the far-left radical Greer come as concern builds in the Senate over her partisan background, unusual even by the standards of the Biden administration, which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/11\/02\/ftc-to-hire-leftist-wacko-meredith-whitaker-former-google-worker-who-attacked-women-for-supporting-trump\/\">already elevated left-wing extremists to positions of influence in the federal bureaucracy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/12\/09\/report-gigi-sohns-fcc-nomination-faltering-as-oan-walks-back-endorsement\/\">As Breitbart News previously reported<\/a>, the liberal advocacy organization that Sohn used to run has called for the blacklisting of conservative media company One America News, and Sohn herself has called for the FCC to investigate the broadcasting license of Sinclair Broadcast Group, another conservative-owned media company.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There is a convention that the five commissioners should remain relatively nonpartisan, even though they are allocated along party lines, with three commissioners from the party occupying the White House and two from the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has broken that convention, sending a far-left radical, Gigi Sohn, to the Senate for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Sohn was the co-founder and CEO of the leftist advocacy group Public Knowledge, which recently&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publicknowledge.org\/blog\/why-cable-and-satellite-providers-should-drop-one-america-news-network\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">called on cable and satellite providers<\/a>&nbsp;to drop the conservative One America News Network (OAN).<\/p>\n<p>As an FCC commissioner, Sohn will be in a position of influence over cable and satellite providers.<\/p>\n<p>She has also personally called on the FCC to investigate whether the Sinclair Broadcast Group, a conservative-run network of local TV stations, should hold a broadcast license. As a commissioner, she will be able to do just that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The FCC has become increasingly important in battles over tech censorship. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/15\/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-backs-rulemaking-to-reform-section-230\/\">According to its former chairman<\/a>, Ajit Pai, it has the authority to officially interpret Section 230, a law that Big Tech relies on to protect itself from censorship-related lawsuits. In the hands of the progressive left, the FCC could be used to demand more censorship, not less.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Before Net Neutrality was ever on President Obama\u2019s agenda, Greer spent three years alongside the ACLU and other liberal organizations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2015\/12\/03\/leading-net-neutrality-activist-campaigned-on-behalf-of-al-qaeda-supporter\/\">campaigning for Tarek Mehanna<\/a>, an al-Qaeda sympathizer who was convicted on FBI charges of conspiring to kill American troops abroad in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The rights of Mehanna and other Islamic extremists were championed by the left in those days.&nbsp;The <em>Guardian,&nbsp;<\/em>a liberal newspaper in the U.K., even ran a column <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/cifamerica\/2012\/apr\/16\/tarek-mehanna-punished-speaking-truth\">defending the killing of U.S. troops abroad<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That same newspaper, and those same activists, which fell over themselves to defend the right of Islamic terrorists, have said relatively little about the weaponization of the FBI and the security state against Republicans and conservatives during the Trump years and after January 6.<\/p>\n<p>After 2014, Greer focused full-time on the Net Neutrality battle, campaigning for it during the Obama years and against Ajit Pai\u2019s repeal of it during the Trump years.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive activists delivered <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2017\/12\/14\/the-end-is-nigh-9-crazy-leftist-predictions-for-net-neutrality-repeal\/\">doom-laden warnings about how the repeal of Net Neutrality would lead to internet censorship<\/a>, while remaining mute as Silicon Valley giants like Google and Facebook \u2014 who benefited financially from Net Neutrality \u2014 rapidly escalated censorship after 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Biden\u2019s embattled FCC nominee Gigi Sohn, whose nomination is already struggling on account of her partisan, pro-censorship record, is tied to a far-left \u201cdigital rights\u201d activist who once campaigned &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}