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Weasels Scurry for Cover of Darkness
Last month, I blogged about the efforts of the major telecom firms to bribe Congress into destroying the internet as we know it. According to the Save The Internet Coalition (the folks who first sounded the alarm about the impending threat) Washington is starting to notice the uproar of thousands of us in the blogosphere. So this means that Congress will hold open and free hearings, taking pains to listen to all viewpoints in the debate, balancing the needs of their contituents with those of their corporate benefactors. Right?
AAAAAAAH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!
Are you kidding? This is Congress we’re talking about. They’re just going to hold the hearings for the bill in private.
And forget what I said in my last post about this not being a “Liberal vs. Conservative” issue. According to the up-is-down, black-is-white Bizarro World of conservative pretzel logic, the concept we’re all fighting for, that of Network Neutrality (ie, that telecom firms should not be able to determine what content is available to whom) is actually a “big government regulation of the internet.”
Every time I believe I’ve finally set the moral and intellectual bar low enough for the American right wing, they manage to limbo right on under it yet again.
