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Conservatives Lie About Net Neutrality for Big Bucks
When it comes to net neutrality, conservatives are absolutely clueless.
Earlier this week, President Obama came out in favor of net neutrality, thus regulating the internet like a public utility. But, just hours after he made his comments, FCC Chairman Tom wheeler told a bunch of internet company executives that he won't cave to pressure from the White House, and that the FCC is an "independent agency" that can make its own decisions.
That was music to the ears of corporate-owned lawmakers and conservative commentators, who are making net neutrality out to be this terrible thing that kills competition in the marketplace and that censors what Americans can and can't see on the web.
As usual, the corporate right is doing a whole lot of fear-mongering, but not much else, because when it comes to net neutrality, conservatives are just plain wrong. Take Fox News' Stuart Varney and Andrew Napolitano for example. On a recent episode of Varney and Co., Napolitano said that President Obama, "wants to take the choice of buyer and sellers out of the market." Varney chipped in and said that President Obama is seeking, "to regulate the internet," which prompted Napolitano to say that the entire idea of net neutrality "is Orwellian."
Varney and Napolitano are both either deeply misguided or simply liars.
-Thom
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