Million-Dollar Ad Blitz to Kill Net Neutrality

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Million-Dollar Ad Blitz to Kill Net Neutrality
by Megan Tady

On Tuesday morning, an AT&T-funded front group, Americans for Prosperity, announced a $1.4 million advertising blitz to try to convince Americans that the FCC is plotting to "take over the Internet."

Last week, the FCC simply proposed to "reclassify" aspects of broadband under Title II of the Telecommunications Act to better advance its goals of bridging the digital divide and safeguarding the free and open Internet.

But AFP is spinning this into, laughably and somewhat ironically, a "government takeover." During yesterday's press conference, AFP trotted out Grover Norquist, the right-wing hit man perhaps best known for threatening to "drown the government in a bathtub," to put his stamp on their cause.

Looks like they want to drown the Internet, too - along with our democracy.

Hours later, AFP's message came spewing forth from FOX News' Megyn Kelly, who invited Josh Silver, executive director of Free Press (which runs the SavetheInternet.com campaign) on her show to presumably discuss both sides of Net Neutrality, only to shut him out of the conversation.

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1. Bump

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2. cnet is doing their part

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3. Just when is the Government going to demand press releases for clarification and educating the

public. Their failure to do this is the nail in the coffin as far as I am concerned.

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4. Not many were aware of the Telecommunications Act, either

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5. Bump