Who is behind the effort to regulate the Internet?
The far left is supporting Internet regulation as part of a “political struggle” over control of the Media. Let there be no mistake: The left’s primary political objective behind “network neutrality” regulations is to impose government control over the Internet as yet another step in the direction of imposing government controls over everything else. Free Press is the leading organization on the left promoting regulation of the Internet. The Founder of Free Press is Marxist professor Robert McChesney, who, in an interview with a socialist publication, put the “political struggle” this way: “The first issue is the Internet. The battle for network neutrality is to prevent the Internet from being privatized by telephone and cable companies. . . . What we want to have in the US, and in every society, is an Internet that is not private property, but public utility.” And Free Press is not just promoting its Marxist views from the outside. President Obama’s Federal Communications Commission C
