Democrats Push 'Net Neutrality

by William Triplett - January 9th, 2007 - Variety

WASHINGTON -- Democrats, who all but sank major communications reform legislation in the previous congressional session over the issue of so-called 'Net neutrality, marked the first day of the new Congress by introducing a bill that will mandate 'Net neutrality, which is intended to guarantee the equal accessibility and flow of content over the Internet.

Democrats hate talk radio. They have tried ever since talk radio became dominated by conseravtive voices to re-introduce the concept that the airwaves must guarantee equal portions of conservative commentators and liberal commentators.

There is aboslutely no indication that anyone is biasing the Internet towards one political philosophy or another. However that has not stopped the democrats from seeing it as evil. Democrats hate the Internet as much as they hate talk radio.

Since the newspapers and Public TV are dominated by liberal voices, democrats feel that any medium that is not liberal dominated is simply wrong. The vast majority of blogs are libertarian oriented. Counting those sites and conservative sites, liberal sites are in the minority on the Internet. To democrats this is wrong. They do not accept that the success of libertarian and conservative sites is due to the Internet users preferring these sites. To democrats it is proof of some insidious and evil power at work.

They therefore feel a law is required to allow them to suppress libertarian and conservative sites to assure that politically correct speech has equality as decided by some government bureaucrat. I think we used to call this "1984" and it was something that liberals decried. That was back in the day when being a liberal meant that you were in favor of free speech.

What happened to the democratic party of my youth?