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rm9792 wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote:Wall Street Journal
The Net Neutrality Coup, by John Fund, WSJ
The campaign to regulate the Internet was funded by a who's who of left-liberal foundations.

The net neutrality vision for government regulation of the Internet began with the work of Robert McChesney, a University of Illinois communications professor who founded the liberal lobby Free Press in 2002. Mr. McChesney's agenda? "At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies," he told the website SocialistProject in 2009. "But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control."

As an employee of one of those evil telephone companies I can attest that deregulation in 1986 caused service and quality to got heck in a handbasket real quick. Customers say that more than the employees. It is simply not a business that lends itself to competition, much like cable tv.

And I'm one to agree. Service is atrocious. Particularly Verizon's automated phone system. But, that doesn't negate the fact that a self-described socialist who hesitates to say he is NOT a marxist is the architect of the whole thing, and his stated purpose is to get rid of media capitalism. In other words, he wants to put all media in the hands of the state.

That cannot be allowed to happen. When the state owns the media, the state also owns the people. Period. The founders understood this. We understand it. Even commie pinko leftist traitors understand it - which is why they support state ownership of the media.

Wall Street Journal
The Net Neutrality Coup, by John Fund, WSJ
The campaign to regulate the Internet was funded by a who's who of left-liberal foundations.

The net neutrality vision for government regulation of the Internet began with the work of Robert McChesney, a University of Illinois communications professor who founded the liberal lobby Free Press in 2002. Mr. McChesney's agenda? "At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies," he told the website SocialistProject in 2009. "But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control."

A year earlier, Mr. McChesney wrote in the Marxist journal Monthly Review that "any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself." Mr. McChesney told me in an interview that some of his comments have been "taken out of context." He acknowledged that he is a socialist and said he was "hesitant to say I'm not a Marxist."

This is the man that Obama takes his inspiration from. We are in deep deep trouble if Congress doesn't act in January to strip FCC of this specific authority.