A day before Gigi Sohn's confirmation hearing for a place in the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Senator Thom Tillis penned a letter to President Biden asking him to withdraw the nomination.
But Tilli’s opposition wasn’t based on the fact that Sohn is overtly pro-censorship.
The Republican senator - known as a strong protector of corporate rights holders' interests - branded Sohn as an “anti-copyright activist.”
The letter shows that Tillis, who is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, expressed his dismay at the nomination, given what he called Sohn's past anti-copyright activism, describing her also as a radical open content activist who doesn't care about IP rights.
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