Why doesn’t WOW! carry the Newsmax network in Columbus?

Note from Opinion Editor Amelia Robinson: This is a submitted column by a candidate running for election. Its publication does not constitute the Dispatch Editorial Board’s endorsement of the views expressed.

The cancel culture pandemic sweeping the Western world has hit home here in Columbus.

Like a contagious disease, the idea is spreading around the globe that those who speak out bravely in defense of freedom and liberty must be shut up at all costs. 

We see it everywhere. We see it in the media, in attacks on people who provided important perspectives and expertise on the COVID-19 panic. 

We see it in sports, when an athlete is punished for criticizing the brutality of the Chinese Communist Party.

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We see it in business, where a top executive at Boeing had to resign over an article he wrote 35 years before opposing allowing women to serve as fighter pilots. 

And we see it in politics, where a year ago techopolies Meta (formerly Facebook) and Twitter censored politicians throughout the United States. 

Now we see it in Columbus, as well. 

Here’s the story:

Last June, Canadian company Cogeco Communications announced that its wholly owned subsidiary Atlantic Broadband (ABB) had acquired WOW!, an Internet and cable TV provider here in Columbus and other parts of Ohio. 

So far, so good. 

Enter Newsmax, the pro-American conservative network. Newsmax serves the people of Ohio and often hosts Ohio elected officials, allowing them to communicate with constituents here at home.