How much of today's talk radio is completely reliant on all the good information that so many solely-internet-based news outlets put out there?
Undercutting this information stream still undercuts the tea party movement indirectly, because part of how so many tea partiers know they're being threatened is because someone has actually grown a sense of curiosity and is researching.
Old Media keeps playing Ostrich to the fact that the tea party is Not just Repubs.
Zero has shocked a whole bunch of long time Dem voters and Independents awake. If they cripple the Net there’s going to be Mobs of demonstrators jamming streets in City after City.
I think they did not expect for things to backfire. While attempting to manufacture a movement, another movement rose up against them (the tea party). That has to really suck for them. They have spent countless billions to create and support something that happened for free for conservatives. unfortunately (for them), as with any movement against those with power, the more you try to stop is, the bigger it gets.
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The net is an absolute must for me and the information I get and use to develope my own thoughts.
Learning is an entirely different operation today than when I went to school in the 50's and 60's.
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As to your supposition as to whether the Tea Party is a target, one doesn't have to travel far (if at all) from this website.
The web master here has suffered through repeated attacks from the mainstream media. I remember at one time they were suggesting (which is a laugh) that Mr. Robinson was misappropriating funds. This site isn't some home network; plenty of work and funding is needed to maintain a website like Free Republic. You'll note that there is not one piece of advertising here. Funding is all done through contributors. I for one do not feel like I am being ripped off.
As for the Tea Party, many will recall that in its infancy, left-wing liberal media dismissed it as a group of cranks. Not so now.
Leftists always preach about diversity or political correctness. The idea being that you can be of any nationality, so long as you abide by the rules imposed. Which is not freedom at all.
Anything that deviates from the impassive, monolithic structure of their belief system is a target.
Yes. Without net neutrality, the grassroots Tea Party movement might find it a bit too expensive to operate online in competition with the well-funded Soros sites.