Saturday, June 04, 2011

Net Neutrality Or Not?

I guess it's good news that this story came out:
Documents made public yesterday by Judicial Watch describe extensive collusion by Federal Communications Commission officials with a left-wing advocacy group in a campaign to expand government regulation of the Internet.
Why is net neutrality
so partisan in reality?

The "left-wing advocacy group" has a name which sounds benign enough: Free Press Institute. They describe themselves as nonpartisan. But then ALL 501-3C groups describe themselves as nonpartisan. They have to, to get the tax break.

So what kind of nonpartisan are they? Their website has a lot of attacks on giant corporations, so you would think they were populists of some kind.

But a friend sent me these quotations from Robert McChesney, the founder of the Institute:
"They've got to be held accountable; our broadcasting system has to be made accountable; and unless it is, it's going to be very hard to change anything else for the better in this country."

"There is no real answer, but to remove, brick by brick, the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles."
Of course, that's just the founder. But it does worry me.

I fear he wants to neuter
the view from my computer.

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