Internet Death Panels

This morning, representatives from various corporate front groups launched a new coordinated campaign to kill net neutrality. Speaking on Capitol Hill LULAC, which is funded by AT&T, called Net Neutrality “Obamacare for the Internet.” Americans for Prosperity — a corporate front group founded by oil billionaire David Koch but also funded by telecom interests — unveiled a new ad smearing net neutrality as a “government takeover.” And Grover Norquist, representing his “Americans for Tax Reform” corporate front group, said net neutrality is like what China does, “putting policemen on every corner, on the street or on the Internet.”

Free access to information for the masses is not something corporate America or the Republican party is interested in. Corporate America because they want to charge for it and the Republican party because they would rather people not have access to the information.