![]() ![]() It claims that politically conservative content may not be hateful, but it argues that it often serves as a gateway to white-supremacist content. It demands companies censor any activity that it deems hateful. 14 Activities General Overviewįree Press and its associated 501(c)(4) advocacy organization Free Press Action focus on several main issue areas: preventing private media consolidation, preserving and increasing taxpayer funding for public media outlets, using the federal bureaucracy to alter ownership of media outlets on the basis of sex and race, securing universal access to high-speed broadband internet, protecting online privacy, and instituting so-called “net neutrality,” a regulatory policy governing how bandwidth is allocated that some have argued will “turn the internet into a public utility.” 15 16 17 18 19 20įree Press has alleged that media companies “want to decide what you’re able to watch, listen to, read and share,” suppress stories about people of color, and use technology to “silence dissenting voices” and “criminalize communities of color.” 21 22 23 Censorshipįree Press’s so-called Free and Open Internet campaign supports censorship by technology companies, ranging from social media websites to payment processors. 12 As Nichols and McChesney later wrote, they believed that “Americans recognized that media outlets had let them down by tipping coverage in favor of a wrongheaded rush to war.” 13 Free Press first rose to prominence by leveraging this perceived dissatisfaction with the media industry, joining with progressive organizations like Common Cause,, and Code Pink to lobby in opposition to an FCC decision to allow greater consolidation within the broadcast industry. Bush’s public campaign to build support for the 2003 Iraq War. 11įree Press was created amid then-President George W. ![]() 10 Foundingįree Press was founded in 2003 by Robert McChesney, a socialist professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign John Nichols, a Washington correspondent at The Nation and Josh Silver, the founder of Represent.Us, an organization focused on reducing what it claims are the negative effects of campaign funding in American politics. ![]() It uses identity politics as a basis for determining what content should be censored, recommending that content targeting specific groups such as ethnic minorities, women, or the LGBT community be censored. 5 6 7 8 9įree Press campaigns in support of censorship by technology companies, including social media companies and payment processors, based on what it determines to be hateful or so-called misinformation. 1 2 3 4įree Press was founded in 2003 by avowed socialist Robert McChesney and played a prominent role in the debates over “net neutrality” that led to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) imposing regulatory control over internet bandwidth during the early years of the Obama administration, a policy that was later reversed by the FCC during the Trump administration. Free Press is an anti-business media advocacy organization that supports tighter governmental control over the internet, blocking the consolidation of media companies, and race-and-gender-focused federal regulations to install women and minorities in leadership positions in the media. ![]()
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