"He was transferred to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention shortly after his arrest."

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"Guevara was deported to his native El Salvador early Friday morning, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) confirmed to CNN, more than three months after the Spanish-language live-streamer was arrested while covering an Atlanta-area “No Kings” protest.

"So they see this, these corporate owners see this, and they know they need to curry favor with this administration so they can get their transactions. They also want the lifting of these ownership caps, because they want to get even bigger."

"They voluntarily committed to do that, and then the FCC said, ‘Well, we will confirm but verify, and we will take action against them if they don't follow through on their commitment.’ That's censorship.

"I mentioned in my remarks the Paramount-Skydance deal and the voluntary commitment by Paramount to install a truth arbiter, which they called an ombudsman, in order to field complaints about bias and any content that CBS has that people don't like. That's self-censorship.

"The result will be a chilling effect on coverage, fewer jobs and less diversity of viewpoints. In the end, this effort has never been about preserving a diversity of voices: it's about narrowing them.”

"The FCC won't need to threaten to investigate individual stations, journalists and comedians won't need to be censored directly. They'll censor themselves to avoid conflict with regulators or risk losing government favor.

"The FCC has a duty to ensure our media system serves the public, not billion-dollar companies, not to mention this form of media consolidation will further push independent local newsrooms to answer to corporate masters who are already under political pressure from this administration.

"This will do nothing to help the small, independent and local broadcast stations that are at risk of closing shop.

"The FCC proposal to lift these ownership caps isn't about innovation or competition, it's about consolidation of viewpoints solely for financial gain. Billion-dollar companies do not need our help competing with national networks.

"Efforts to dismantle ownership caps and to allow greater consolidation are advancing. Each merger or acquisition reduces the number of voices that may be heard. Each closure of a local newsroom makes our discourse narrower and our communities weaker.

"Congress placed limits on broadcast ownership precisely so that one entity would not control the majority of the content that we all consume. That's the essence of viewpoint diversity. Today, that principle is at risk.

"Separately, the FCC is also considering overwriting congressionally established ownership caps that for decades have played a critical role in preserving the agency's pillars of media policy, localists. localism, competition, and diversity of viewpoints.

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The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the Fox News Network and its parent company, Fox Corp, accused Fox of engaging in “an exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance in the market for US right-leaning pay TV news.”

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