[steve-b]

Quite the opposite:

Nope; you have it ass backwards.

The concept of Network Neutrality has unfortunately been misunderstood by many conservatives, libertarians, and other champions of the free market. That's too bad, because the free market essence of the Internet is exactly what would be lost without Network Neutrality.

The large telecoms, some politicians and a number of conservative pundits have characterized the push for Network Neutrality as a left-wing attempt to stifle innovation and put government bureaucrats in control of the Internet. Well, it's not. Through my work with Gun Owners of America, I am demonstratively a lot further to the right than they are....

The real problem is that we are under a distorted market from the get-go. Government is setting the rules. The result has been a government-supported oligopoly. We are lucky that those controlling physical access to the Internet have been forced to give every purchaser of bandwidth equal access -- it doesn’t matter whether Gun Owners or the Brady Center is purchasing a T-1: all T-1 purchasers pay the same for the same level of service....

But people are going to build new Burger Kings along the highways. Suppose, however, that AT&T owned I-95. And that they inked an exclusive deal with Wendy's. Or bowed to pressure from food Nazis and said no burgers at all from Florida to Maine.

What we think of as the free market nature of the Internet is only possible because the oligopoly has been forced to keep its hands off of what actually gets done with the infrastructure they control....

--Craig Fields, director of Internet operations, Gun Owners of America

[Sudetenland]

Good luck in waking these knee-jerks up. I doubt any will pay close enough attention to understand what you (and GOA and Brent Bozell) are saying, they are too busy knee-jerk reacting to the fact that Media Matters is supporting the ruling.

Net neutrality is what has caused the internet to flourish...it is simply an attempt to codify what has been true of the internet in the past.

I guess they will change their tune when FreeRepublic is suddenly placed on a restricted list because the carrier or access supplier is a liberal-owned corporation...of course by then it will be too late.

Leave it to that fool Glenn Beck to jump on the wrong band-wagon...complete with mugging the camera and his over dramatic antics.

[rocksblues]

I have a problem backing anything that President Obama’s FCC appointees endorse!

[tophat9000]

Agree.... The concept of Network Neutrality has unfortunately been misunderstood by many conservatives libertarians, and other champions of the free market.