By Alan Dershowitz, Emeritus professor of law, Harvard Law School   
      
   AT&T's recent deplatforming of Newsmax, one of America's most   
   influential cable news channels, should alarm everyone, including   
   liberals. We are all at risk when censorship occurs—when one is silenced   
   based on his or her point of view.   
      
   The facts strongly suggest that partisan and ideological motives played   
   a sizable role in AT&T and DirecTV's decision to remove Newsmax on   
   January 24, when some 13 million homes were deprived of the   
   channel—including my own. After the recent State of the Union address, I   
   turned to Newsmax for their coverage, but was surprised to find it   
   suddenly missing from my channel guide.   
      
   https://www.newsweek.com/if-t-can-silence-newsmax-who-next-opinion-1781867   
      
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