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| The Net Neutrality Coup |
| 2010-12-22 |
| 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." So how did this happen, prithee tell? |
| Posted by:gorb |
#7 They call him Julius Seizer. Sic semper... well, you know. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2010-12-22 20:18 |
| #6 They call him Julius Seizer. |
| Posted by: Grunter 2010-12-22 19:43 |
| #5 "welcome to your new offices in Anacostia, Julius. It's all we could afford with the new budget" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-12-22 18:13 |
| #4 John, why should they listen to the courts and Congress? They report to the One. Of course, since Congress controls the purse strings, the FCC may get surprised when they don't even have money to turn on the lights. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2010-12-22 18:11 |
| #3 Robert McChesney, a University of Illinois communications professor who founded the liberal lobby Free Press in 2002. Free Press? It's not about a free press, it's about media control. These leftists are trying to control the message. Starve the FCC of money; cut there budget to zero if they won't obey the legislative branch/courts of the country. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2010-12-22 17:10 |
| #2 This guy McChesney wants government subsidized press (i.e. NPR on a grand scale) - he had no understanding or real interest in net neutrality, it's just an excuse to expand government. |
| Posted by: CincinnatusChili 2010-12-22 16:19 |
| #1 a judge has already ruled FCC didn't have the authority to do this without express approval from Congress. Next Congress, invoke Congressional Review of the rules, and cut the FCC budget to nil. That will send a message to Lil Eddie Munster Genachowski |
| Posted by: Frank G 2010-12-22 16:04 |