Posted on 05/05/2022 1:05:24 PM PDT by algore
However, the anti-monopoly activist group Open Markets Initiative, where Democratic FTC Chair Lina Khan used to work, has urged the agency to block the deal, saying that it 'poses immediate and direct threats to American democracy and free speech.'
The group argued that Musk's ownership of the Starlink satellite internet service already gives him control over a key communication platform, and that his purchase of Twitter would be a dangerous concentration of power
Representative Jim Jordan, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday issued a letter raising concerns about the FTC antitrust probe and suggesting he planned to investigate.
Jordan expressed concern about statements by the Open Markets Institute (OMI), which he called 'an extreme left-wing political advocacy organization,' and its call for the FTC to stop the deal.
'We are concerned that OMI - where you were previously employed as Legal Director - may be trying to leverage its close relationship with you to take action to further limit free speech online,' wrote Jordan in the letter to Khan.
'OMI appears to believe that the FTC will be receptive to its cavalier effort to influence a federal agency that is run by its former employee,' wrote Jordan.
Jordan asked the FTC to preserve records relating to its review of the Twitter deal, suggesting he may be planning to investigate the matter.
Khan was legal director from 2017 to 2018 at the OMI, which describes itself on its website as working 'to address threats to our democracy, individual liberties, and our national security from today's unprecedented levels of corporate concentration and monopoly power.'
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The be did a video on this subject, the funniest thing I have seen in a long tims
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rFNCsSBnYVg&t=2s
“Democracy” requires censorship?
Corrupt FBI raids in the works.
Of course Democracy requires censorship, otherwise the sheep might realize that they are being eaten by the wolves
Lina Trash Khan
Democratic FTC Chair Lina Khan
The ‘immediate threat to American democracy’ has been ongoing for a long time now, with the likes of Google and YouTube and Facebook and Instagram and even Twitter, doing all they could to stop speech that diverged from the preferred rhetoric and messaging of the democrat party.
So, where were the censors that democrats want to use now, and where were the government oversight committees?
Fact is that, free speech is defined as speech that agrees with the messaging of the democrat party, and everyone else is doing ‘disinformation’. What kind of 1st amendment support is that by the democrat party media?
Have to see this folks...
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