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Wednesday, January 25th, 2023 6:46 AM

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DirecTV cancelling Newsmax

I am a 12 year subscriber to DirecTV & have had AT&T cell service for 15 years. I am EXTREMELY disappointed that DirecTV is cancelling Newsmax—the last (Edited per community guidelines) news channel. If this is not resolved with Newsmax being restored I will be cancelling my subscriptions.

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2 years ago

I am disappointed that ATT/ Direct TV has cancelled NewsMax. I am looking for another internet provider. I cancelled Direct TV a few years ago but kept ATT for internet. I will cancel my internet. Why is ATT trying to censor Newsmax? Censorship!

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Are they asking something of Newsmax that they are asking of other networks?

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DirecTV continues to carry 22 (Edited per community guidelines) news channels, many with much lower ratings than Newsmax and all get paid hefty license fees. DirecTV has insisted Newsmax is not eligible for any cable license fee.

2 years ago

ATT /Direct Tv agenda of socialist engineering has overshadowed its product and services value. Censoring Newsmax and OAN is an act of treason. Conspiring with US Government Totalitarians to deny speech is illegal. Your company is now a threat to America. My accounts all closed and I shall share the betrayal of free peope by ATT.

you company should be seized and it’s Execs imprisoned. 
boycott ATT is the word of the month. Screw you goddam communist a holes

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ACE - Professor

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Censoring Newsmax and OAN is an act of treason. Conspiring with US Government Totalitarians to deny speech is illegal.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. You really believe that? It's not censorship.

Legal discussion is not allowed on the forums.

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2 years ago

This is AMERICA Free and fair SPEECH is vital for this country’s survival. AT&T and DIRECT TV…..WAKE UP RESTORE NEWSMAX or lose me?
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2 years ago

I have been an AT&T customer for over 20 years. I have also been military for over 10 years until my last deployment where I met a very inhospitable IED. I was and still am ready to be buried under the very flag and CONSITUTION that I swore an oath to uphold and defend, against ALL enemies foreign AND DOMESTIC. By removing OAN and Newsmax AT&T is now a hostile DOMESTIC enemy of our CONSTITUTION! I highly doubt anyone at AT&T cares about my opinion, however in the happenchance there's at least 1 person who does, I implore you to reverse course decisions about OAN and Newsmax to allow them to return to ANY AND ALL aspects of media. I have never had an issue with AT&T which is why I have been a loyal customer for more than 20 years, until now. Please reinstate them prior to 15 February 2023 or I will be forced to remove myself from AT&T and join some other wireless plan with some other company. If AT&T does not do as we've asked, I can only hope AT&T goes bankrupt due to its (Edited per community guidelines) position.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled The best decision AT&T could ever make!

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2 years ago

My wife and I have been loyal AT&T customers since we were with Cingular. We just recently became direct tv customers last summer. I'm hoping within the first quarter of this horrible decision to drop newsmax, you push direct tv to bring newsmax back. If not, I will be dumping you both. Vigilantly watching your next move.

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2 years ago

I object to the dropping of Newsmax from your lineup.  It is one of the reasons that I subscribed to  Direct TV in the first place.  It should be reinstated immediately.  I will be exploring other services and I hope that congress will be investigating AT&T for this overt censorship!

Frank

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ACE - Expert

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A TV service not carrying a channel is not censorship. I fail to understand why so many people don’t get that. 

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ACE - Professor

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Please post all DirecTV questions here:

http://forums.directv.com

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2 years ago

I have been with ATT Prepaid  for years. After learning about the communist removal of Newsmax and OAN from Directv I have easily decided to discontinue my dealings with ATT. I will not support any company that removes news from any news source and making available news only from the corrupt left news media's. I'm very disappointed with this outcome and will be sure to make all aware of these un American acts. Shameful 

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2 years ago

WHY is NEWSMAX canceled on Uverse in the Miami/ S. Florida area......... I watch that channel all the time............

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2 years ago

Please bring newsmax back to direct tv. They are not asking for more than you pay other news stations. You are paying more to other news stations than you pay newsmax. People want freedom of speech and freedom to choose what station they watch. If you do t like one, you can watch the other. You stand to lose lots of customers by your censorship! 

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imagine being that hung up on a new station - you can still watch it through streaming , you can it literally watch it for free too - anyhow..this was a corporate level decision , do you think posting on the forum will make any difference? If you are citing freedom of speech don't you think it's ironic? dtv is exercising its freedom of speech/decision making to remove the channel.

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2 years ago

Why is AT&T not allowing the NewsMax app aloud on phone? I pay my bill but yet you guys can now tell me "A CUSTOMER" what we can listen too and not listen too!!!! I've been with AT&T for a long time and if this continues to happen and NewsMax isn't restored so that I c an use it on my phone, I WILL LEAVE AND TAKE MY BUSINESS ELSEWHERE. AT&T WILL NOT TELL ME WHAT I CAN OR CANT DO ON MY PHONE. FREAKING PATHETIC WHAT AT&T HAS DONE HERE.  

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Why is AT&T not allowing the NewsMax app aloud on phone? I pay my bill but yet you guys can now tell me "A CUSTOMER" what we can listen too and not listen too!!!! I've been with AT&T for a long time and if this continues to happen and NewsMax isn't restored so that I c an use it on my phone, I WILL LEAVE AND TAKE MY BUSINESS ELSEWHERE. AT&T WILL NOT TELL ME WHAT I CAN OR CANT DO ON MY PHONE. FREAKING PATHETIC WHAT AT&T HAS DONE HERE.  

ACE - Expert

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No idea what you are talking about. ATT does not block or prevent use of the Newsmax app on your phone. ATT no longer carries Newsmax on either UVerse or Directv, so if you are using credentials for either of those services, that may explain it. You should be able to create your own account with Newsmax and watch for free.

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Nope, they have. Me and a couple other AT&T users have noticed this today and we don't use UVerse or Directv. I will not support a company that engages in active censorship.

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good lord. 

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ACE - Expert

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Well, I don’t believe you. Whatever is preventing the app from working, very unlikely it is ATT.  Please provide proof because that is a very serious accusation.

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2 years ago

Ive been an AT&T customer for approximately 2years after Verizon kept raising my rates and I have been an American for the past 66 years and I will drop AT&T at the drop of a hat over your trying to Censor the people of this great country please dont feel like you have the power to censor the people of the United States we will not tolerate this move that your trying to pull with our 1st Amendment rights Dont be a Zuckerberg

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ACE - Expert

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ATT isn’t censoring anything. Presuming you are talking about no longer carrying a particular channel, any TV service not carrying a channel is not censorship. You also clearly don’t understand first amendment rights. Go ahead and cancel if you must, no one here cars why or if you cancel.

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its annoying when people scream their first amendment rights are being violated and have taken no time to read it 

and its censorship not sensorship 

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While AT&T employees do look at forum posts from time to time, we are here to represent the forum with our experiences as customers and do not represent AT&T in any official capacity with our responses and do so on our own time unpaid and off the clock. As employees we are not rewarded nor compensated to participate in these forums This forum is comprised of regular customers to communicate with other customers to offer advice and share experiences same as any other user Although there is a small team of customer care specialists that monitor the forums the sheer volume of posts are simply too many posts for these agents to respond to each one of them.
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2 years ago

... AT&T wireless customer since 2008, and for 7 years had 4 lines.  Never again.

Goodbye AT&T.  

... DirecTV is next to be gone, when the current month is done. (customer since the 90's).  

Never again.  Better streaming services out there for less money anyway.

Excellent job destroying a long-time customer's loyalty.

My question: What were you folks thinking? !

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Newsmax & OAN gone? So is AT&T and DTV.

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2 years ago

I don’t even watch Newsmax, but just read that you refuse to carry the station. I’m an Independent but tired of divisive stances by companies that should remain agnostic and not be one-sided. Corporations need to stay out of politics. You are a communications company and now part of the problem restricting freedom of speech, not part of the solution. 

Suppose half the country cancels AT&T services? Maybe you’d reconsider? Been with you for decades. Now looking into Verizon, etc. 
Shame on AT&T. 

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Do you have a roof antenna or rabbit ears?  Here in the Los Angeles area, both networks can be found on Channel 8 substations.  And, with antenna, you don't need a cable, satellite or streaming subscription, they are free.

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2 years ago

Everyone and anyone who respects our Constitution and the right to Free Speech needs to stand up and fight against censorship before our country is gone for good! Let this be a warning to ATT. I have accounts with ATT, cell phone, internet, etc.  Either you re-instate the (Edited per community guidelines) stations, such as NEWSMAX, and their opinions right along with the (Edited per community guidelines) stations, which lie and have fake news or lose all of my business. Not only my business, I have a large social influence with other influencers that have literally millions of contacts. This will not be a good outcome for ATT. You are not in the business to silence people on earth. You will learn what silence is if you do not change your practices. 

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you should read the first amendment it protects you from government censorship not from private companies choosing not to carry a certain news channel nwsmax is gone from the lineup until they come to a carrier agreement. i find it amazing that the folks screaming first amendment violations have no idea what it actually is 

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While AT&T employees do look at forum posts from time to time, we are here to represent the forum with our experiences as customers and do not represent AT&T in any official capacity with our responses and do so on our own time unpaid and off the clock. As employees we are not rewarded nor compensated to participate in these forums This forum is comprised of regular customers to communicate with other customers to offer advice and share experiences same as any other user Although there is a small team of customer care specialists that monitor the forums the sheer volume of posts are simply too many posts for these agents to respond to each one of them.
*I am a DIRECTV employee, and the postings on this site are my own and don't necessarily represent DIRECTV's position, strategies or opinions.

ACE - Professor

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2 years ago

"Either you re-instate the (Edited per community guidelines) stations, such as NEWSMAX, and their opinions right along with the..."

I like the fact it censored the s-word.

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