GOP State Treasurers Weigh in on AT&T Following Removal of One America News

Five Republican state treasurers have pressed AT&T in a letter over its removal of the One America News Network (OANN), calling it “apparent censorship of political discourse” driven by partisanship.
AT&T, the majority owner of satellite television provider DirecTV, terminated its contract with OANN and dropped its channels from its lineup earlier this year.
In an early October letter recently obtained by Breitbart, the treasurers from states including Nebraska, Louisiana, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Wyoming argued that DirecTV’s move to blacklist OANN was driven by political bias and pressure from left-wing organizations and politicians.
“Based on the timing of DirecTV’s decision to coincide with politically-motivated pressure campaigns, the lack of a plausible business rationale, and DirecTV’s general decline in subscribers, it appears DirecTV acted based on political or personal motives, rather than out of financial concern for AT&T’s shareholders and other beneficiaries,” wrote the treasurers….