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What those pushing “net neutrality” are after

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Fairly depressing that these liberal foundations have been so successful in pushing these new regulations. Price regulations will probably lead to more government intervention in the future, and possibly the elimination of private companies involved in the internet. From a hrefhttponline.wsj.comarticleSB10001424052748703886904576031512110086694.htmlthe WSJablockquoteThe net neutrality vision for government regulation of the Internet began with the work of Robert McChesney, a University of Illinois communications professor who founded the liberal lobby Free Press in 2002. Mr. McChesneys agenda At the moment, the battle over network neutrality is not to completely eliminate the telephone and cable companies, he told the website SocialistProject in 2009. But the ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.A year earlier, Mr. McChesney wrote in the Marxist journal Monthly Review that any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself. Mr. McChesney told me in an interview that some of his comments have been taken out of context. He acknowledged that he is a socialist and said he was hesitant to say Im not a Marxist. . . .Free Press has been funded by a network of liberal foundations that helped the lobby invent the purported problem that net neutrality is supposed to solve. They then fashioned a political strategy similar to the one employed by activists behind the political speech restrictions of the 2002 McCainFeingold campaignfinance reform bill. The methods of that earlier campaign were discussed in 2004 by Sean Treglia, a former program officer for the Pew Charitable Trusts, during a talk at the University of Southern California. Far from being the efforts of genuine grassroots activists, Mr. Treglia noted, the campaignfinance reform lobby was controlled and funded by foundations like Pew.The idea was to create an impression that a mass movement was afoot, he told his audience. He noted that If Congress thought this was a Pew effort, itd be worthless. . . .blockquote