Friday, June 3, 2011

Oh No! FCC and Liberal Group push preserving the internet as a vibrant forum for speech, commerce innovation and cultural expression." God forbid!

It sounds evil:
Documents made public yesterday by Judicial Watch, a conservative nonprofit group, describe extensive collusion by Federal Communications Commission officials with a left-wing advocacy group (Free Press) in a campaign to expand government regulation of the Internet.

(Werewolf howl) Scary!! Free Press is something to dread because they’re advocating for a…free press.

The … FCC and the advocacy group supported a proposal to regulate access to the Internet as if it were a public utility, in the interest of ensuring "Net Neutrality" … would assure equal access for all Internet users by barring companies from offering preferred rates for higher delivery speeds.

(Scream!) Scary and outrageous. Republicans fear Democrats might do to the internet something they’ve thought about, dominate this powerful media. But the articles writer and interviewees have a hard time hiding their extreme conservative ways. They’re actually appalled by the idea that the internet stay the way it is, and not turned into a money making business that would eventually price average people out:

WashingtonExaminer: Emails between former Free Press president John Silver and Democratic FCC Commissioner Michael Copps from October 2010, coordinating "how we'd like to proceed during these next three months on NN [net neutrality]."
Documents summarizing a phone call (where) Silver "emphasized that a strong net neutrality rule is critical to preserving the Internet as a vibrant forum for speech, commerce, innovation and cultural expression."

Now it’s time for a little character assignation if the previous socialist “free speech protecting net” didn’t scare you off:

Free Press was co-founded by Monthly Review editor Robert McChesney and the Nation’s John Nichols. The Monthly Review is "an independent Marxist journal," while the Nation has long described itself as "the flagship of the left." Free Press is partially funded by George Soros' Open Society Institute.

Scary!! They want to destroy the country, obviously. But what conspiracy exists below the surface of these liberals Marxists:

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said the documents suggest "nothing less than the Obama administration's attempt to stage a government takeover of the Internet under the guise of Net Neutrality. So it should come as no surprise that Free Press, the hard-left organization with socialist ties, is improperly driving the so-called Net Neutrality agenda from inside the Obama administration. The American people should be deeply troubled by the fact that the Obama administration, on issue after issue, seems to be run by shadowy leftist organizations."

The appropriately named columnist Conn Carroll, a senior editorial writer for The Washington Examiner, may have a conspiratorial scoop on his paranoid hands.

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