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Sohn Pushes Back on FSF Criticism of News Distortion Petition

Free State Foundation CEO Randolph May did inform Tech Freedom of his concerns that a petition last week was one-sided in its call for the deletion of the FCC’s news distortion policy, said May and some of the document’s signatories…

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late Friday (see 2511140037). Former FCC aide Gigi Sohn, who represents the petitioners, said earlier last week that May hadn’t expressed his concerns to her but told us in an email Friday that “apparently Randy did convey to one of my colleagues his concern that the petition was one-sided.” She also pushed back on May’s concerns. “I know of no examples of Democratic FCC Chairs abusing the news distortion policy,” she said. “Whether Democratic FCC Chairs abused other rules isn’t relevant to the petition.”