[WilliamofCarmichael]

Did Rush mention his friend Professor Thomas W. Hazlett?

You might also think that they would recall the notorious Fairness Doctrine, which was used to "harass and intimidate" right-wing radio broadcasts, in the words of one unabashed Kennedy-Johnson operative. When that censorious policy was ended in 1987 by former broadcaster Ronald Reagan, there was an explosion of talk formats that gave voice to popular concerns (for a while, Rush Limbaugh even billed himself as equal time).

Professor Hazlett was at U.C. Davis when Rush started in Sacramento in 1983 (84?)

The "Fairness Doctrine" did not prevent radio stations from broadcasting conservative opinions.. the FD just made it very, very expensive to do so.

"Harass and intimidate" were in the form of complaints to the FCC and the requirement that the station owners' be "fair" and give the liberals free air time -- or lose their broadcast licenses.

Now consider Obama long-time friend Sunstein who's talking about FReepers.

Here's how President Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs and author of "Repulblic.com," Cass Sunstein, describes FreeRepublic.com as "group polarization," where people segregate themselves so effectively online with other like-minded thinkers that they create an echo chamber where the group's worst and most malevolent opinions get reinforced and strengthened. "We might want to consider," Sunstein startlingly told the Times recently, "the possibility of ways of requiring or encouraging sites to link to opposing viewpoints."

He recently left the Administration.

Say no to Warder boarding the Internet.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

The caller on the phone with Rush claims that w/o Net Neutrality, the service provider can offer tiered access to specific sites.

What he just described is what CABLE TV providers are doing now with specific networks!! And Cable TV is a REGULATED utility.