[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[TBP]

They are offended by a free Internet.

[gorush]

The government indoctrination centers, sometimes called public schools, have achieved their goal.

[GraceG]

Irony: Being attacked from the air over regulations from an organization you oppose that restricts what can be put on the air....

[C. Edmund Wright]

Cruz will love this - three little hippie dippy radical leftist organizations attacking him......you can’t pay for this kind of publicity....

[nascarnation]

1300 bucks for a ticket...man those Texans are successful! I always marvel at the turnout for SXSW

[smokingfrog]

Gee whiz, I wonder who’s paying for that?

[VerySadAmerican]

The objective is to get Comcast to treat all subscribers equally. That means all the poor people will now have to pay more so they’ll be equal with the rich. Or the rich will pay for it. It won’t go the other way.

[Mark17]

Cruz has been one of Congress’s most vocal critics of federal net neutrality regulations, which attempt to ensure that Internet service providers such as Comcast and Time Warner Cable treat all online traffic equally.

How is it that Comcast and Time Warner Cable DO NOT treat online traffic equally? Is this like what Krauthammer said, a solution looking for a problem?

[nitzy]

I wish you all would take a look at the 18 enumerated powers of the federal government laid out in the Constitution.

I think a VERY powerful argument can be made that the framers of the Constitution thought that the free flow of information was so critical to the national interest they included this as one of the 18 powers....

To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;

I don't think it is a stretch to consider the internet to be the equivalent of the postal system for the 21st century.

That being said, I believe that free markets will always do a better job at giving the customer what he wants. I also believe that the government has a seat at the table regarding this and very few other things. They also have a right to flex that muscle when the system is not working in the best interest of the People. The oligopoly that has developed in the internet industry was not operating in the best interest of the People.

Ask yourself...
How would you rate your satisfaction with your barber?
How about your favorite website?
How about your ISP/Cable company?

The difference is that the free market corrects the issues in the hair cutting and internet content industries. The oligopoly controlling infrastructure of the internet does not seem to be as responsive to the free market. Therefore, in this case only the government has a right and duty to act.

Constitutional defined responsibility + practical need = right to act

[Steve_Seattle]

"Our banner is an Internet-backed reminder to Cruz and all politicians that if you stand against net neutrality, you are standing against the Internet”

Typical leftist lies. I detest those animals. A position to defend the status quo, which has allowed the Internet to grow and prosper in ways unimaginable twenty years ago, is now called "anti-Internet."

[sergeantdave]

“Net neutrality advocates are taking to the skies over Austin, Texas, this weekend to hit Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) for his opposition to net neutrality.”

Time to start counting lampposts in Texas to be sure we have enough to hang all the traitors. Go, Senator Cruz!

[Steve_Seattle]

It’s interesting that they are doing this AFTER the regulation has already been imposed. So this can only be intended as a political ad directed at Cruz, not as an issue-oriented ad. I wonder if that might affect their tax status.

[VanDeKoik]

“being launched by Demand Progress”

Gee, cant imagine what type of group that is.

[Steve_Seattle]

I bought a “DONT TREAD ON ME” flag over the Internet a couple of weeks ago. I wonder if that’s got me on an FBI/NSA watch list.

[onyx]

B T T T ! ! ! ©

[Revel]

The word is that even Netflix is backing down from This because they just figured out that they will die because of it. Companies will no longer offer unlimited bandwidth. You will pay for all of it. Therefore people will drop Netflix.

[abb]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._McChesney

[So Circumstanced]

Surrender, Dorothy

[adorno]

Last year, he called it “ObamaCare for the Internet.”

Sounds good, and accurate, and catchy.

But, perhaps he might try a different 'word', which might be a lot more accurate and to the point.

He should be calling it 'net neuterality'. The FCC regulations is just the first step towards 'neutering' the internet 'rights' of the people, namely the rights of free speech and freedom of the press, and the right to assemble or gather together.

We need a sign to carry around and to paste on all our car bumpers, that says, "No to Net NEUTERALITY!".

[Nuc 1.1]

The FCC is the minion of Sorous’s funded activist groups. Conservatives should attack along this axis every chance they get. Sorous’s groups are sadicious and are a clear danger to the republic.