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To: antiRepublicrat

He doesn’t need the fairness doctrine anymore.

They’ve got net neutrality. And localism.

Why worry about the Beamer when they’ve got the yacht?

A huge portion of talk radio is highly dependent upon research that’s done by online conservative groups, both large and small.(From MRC to freepers, for example)

So by attacking the internet, it’s a huge kneecap to talk radio by default.


38 posted on 06/09/2011 10:50:09 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing ( The liberal media is more ideologically pure than Barack Obama)
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To: Halfmanhalfamazing
A huge portion of talk radio is highly dependent upon research that’s done by online conservative groups, both large and small.(From MRC to freepers, for example)

Good, then we need to keep net neutrality so that can't be interfered with. You don't want only sites with rich backing (*cough* Soros *cough*) being able to put out the news. Then we'd be absolutely dependent on those very few well-financed conservative outlets such as Breitbart. You'd find some great independent video exposing a leftist, post up the link, and many of us wouldn't be able to watch it because the source didn't have the cash to pay our ISPs for the privilege of their data going across the ISP's network.

Even worse, the telcos have their leftist ideologues too, and may just decide not to carry (or rather, block) Breitbart and Drudge regardless of payment, and maybe FR too. That's what you get without net neutrality. This is what is referred to as the "cableization" of the Internet, and it will mean the destruction of the free flow of ideas on the Internet. Enforcement of net neutrality prevents it.

39 posted on 06/09/2011 2:08:39 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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