Black conservative group Project 21 is urging Verizon to reinstate One America News (OAN), saying deplatforming the network “silencing black voices.”
The United States’ largest pay-TV provider stopped carrying One America News (OAN), a conservative-leaning news channel owned by tech entrepreneur Robert Herring, on its channel lineup starting July 31.
“Verizon has done a tremendous disservice to its subscribers, investors and free speech by this decision,” said the group in a letter (pdf) dated Aug. 9 to Verizon CEO Hans Vestberg.
“By cancelling OAN, you aren’t just silencing conservative voices, you are silencing black voices,” reads the letter from Project 21, a network of black conservative and libertarian leaders established in 1992 to highlight the diversity of viewpoints within the black community….