Link to October 21 Crooks and Liars post, "Glenn Beck's idea of 'freedom': Letting corporations control what you read on the Internet".Excerpt: As Timothy Karr explained on Democracy Now last month:
And net neutrality is really the fundamental openness principle of the internet. Whenever you connect to the internet, net neutrality makes sure that you can connect to everyone else who’s on the internet. And this has been a tremendous engine for free speech, for economic innovation, for equal opportunity. And we are now fighting with some very prominent internet service providers, very powerful companies, to try to preserve that fundamental openness, so that whenever we go online we can choose, as users, where we go and what we do via the internet.
Somehow, Beck is able to transform this into an attack on "freedom of speech" -- when it obviously is precisely the opposite.
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