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Conservative Groups Accuse FCC of Helping Net Neutrality Advocates File Comments

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-cheating dept.

jfruh writes Conservative groups opposed to net neutrality have a beef with the FCC, claiming the commission helped pro-net neutrality advocates file comments on the subject without similarly helping opponents. In other news out of this camp, it turns out American Commitment, an advocacy group with ties to the Republican billionaire Koch brothers, sent out 2.4 million letters to Congress opposing net neutrality but only collected about 814,000 signatures. The group then generated three letters to Congress for each person signing the petition, one letter to each of the signer's two senators and one to each signer's representative.

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  1. Conservatives crying "no fair"? by kruach+aum · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isn't that their whole ideology, that the world isn't fair?

    1. Re:Conservatives crying "no fair"? by compro01 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yes, but it's only supposed to be unfair in their favour. Anything else is "Against God's Will" or "Against the will of the Market".

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    2. Re:Conservatives crying "no fair"? by flintmecha · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Their ideology that the world is perfectly fair how it is, and if you want to change anything, then you hate capitalism and America.

    3. Re:Conservatives crying "no fair"? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Their ideology that the world is perfectly fair how it is

      Correction, how it was. The world was perfectly fair in some mythological world that they believe existed before the liberals and blacks and feminists got hold of it.

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    4. Re:Conservatives crying "no fair"? by Calsar · · Score: 5, Interesting

      You are lumping all conservatives in with two special interest groups. That seems to be the point of this article as well as most articles on news sites these days, anything that rings partisan politics generates a lot of comments.

    5. Re:Conservatives crying "no fair"? by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Unless you are a wealthy company, in which case it is your right to try to change things.

      It is not that simple. The Democrats can be just as pro-big-business, depending on the business. For instance Democrats tend to like big companies with unionized workforces, and pushed through the GM bailout in the face of mostly Republican opposition. For more complicated reasons, the Democrats voted for the bank bailout, while most Republicans opposed it.

      There is nothing inherently liberal or conservative about net neutrality. I just happens to be the way the chips fell. The big media companies in Hollywood, and elsewhere, where already in bed with the Democrats. So the ISPs, which have mostly the opposite agenda, lined up with the Republicans. This alignment of interests had happened well before NN became a issue. The Republicans don't oppose NN because of ideology. They oppose it because that is what their big donors want them to do.

  2. If the libs are for it... by pr0t0 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    then we must be against it! Fire up the astroturfing machine!!!

    Like many things based in science or technology, I think the conservatives simply do not understand the call for net neutrality. But they do understand that many people with liberal tendencies are for it, therefore, they must oppose it. I'm (somewhat) convinced that there are people at Fox News or similar conservative outlets that stir up and create controversy where there is none, just to get their base frothing at the mouth...which equals more ad revenue.

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  3. Robber barons by korbulon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is basically what these people are - or want to be. Reading the wikipedia article on the subject ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R... ), it's hard to distinguish the behavior of the current conservative groups in question and the unscrupulous landowners who lived along the Rhine:

    "They hindered commerce by imposing unauthorized tolls and tariffs and at times by sometimes ransoming or hijacking the goods outright..."

    Free market my ass: the real goal of all these crony capitalist "conservatives" is rent-seeking (man, that's another good article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...)

  4. Re:"Conservative group opposes net neutrality" by BasilBrush · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Group of luddite imbeciles" - "Conservatives"
    "Potayto" - "Potato".

  5. Re:More /. bias by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... better solution would be to break up these government created monopolies and allow for competition in the markets.

    Care to name any conservative groups with your solution above as part of their platform? I'd really like to send them a check. Thanks!