Right-Wing Activists: Net Neutrality Is A ‘Power Grab’
[su_right_ad]The religious right is characterizing President Obama’s support for net neutrality as a “power grab.”
This week, spokesmen for the American Family Association and National Religious Broadcasters, two of the country’s top Religious Right groups, came out strongly against net neutrality, while simultaneously demonstrating that they have no idea what net neutrality actually is. Yesterday, both groups weighed in again, as NRB’s Craig Parshall spoke with Dan Celia of the AFA, both of them completely misrepresenting net neutrality as a threat to freedom.
Parshall and Celia were upset by President Obama’s recent call to reclassify broadband services as a public utility in order to preserve net neutrality rules jeopardized by a recent D.C. Circuit Court ruling. Under net neutrality, internet data must be treated equally by providers rather than allow companies like Comcast or Verizon deliver data at different speeds or charge premium rates.
Celia, however, sees net neutrality as a Big Government plot, describing Obama’s announcement as a “social-control grab, power grab” and a sign of “scary, scary times.”
“This is a huge power grab,” Parshall replied…
Parshall then absurdly claimed that people should oppose net neutrality if they want to “protect the internet” as a free and open “village green being the place where the public can get together to exchange ideas, that’s going to go the way of the Dodo bird.” – See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/religious-right-activists-either-totally-clueless-or-utterly-dishonest-about-net-neutrality#sthash.DLCOAaH3.dpuf
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tracey marie November 13th, 2014 at 9:23 pm
Ignorance from the haters, what is new. They oppose anything the President is for even when they have no idea what the issues are. Racism, pure and simple
rg9rts November 14th, 2014 at 9:42 am
I have a spare scraper for the windshield
arc99 November 13th, 2014 at 9:28 pm
It is the “death panels” all over again.
When we talk about the “1%”, maybe we need to adjust our thinking away from assuming it is a reference to the rich in this country.
A more likely application of that number would be as an estimate of the percentage of conservatives in this country who are not lying, bat-turd crazy right wing extremists.
KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker November 13th, 2014 at 9:32 pm
As usual, republicans are lying.
I want a free and unencumbered internet as most people do, but these republican assholes are eager to monopolize internet access as a favor to their political donors who fucked-up cable TV whilst raping consumers. Republicans love big business and hate Americans, and rightwing nutjobs are too stupid to understand.
arc99 November 13th, 2014 at 9:39 pm
If anyone thinks that the average American consumer is best served by an internet where your ISP can slow or completely block your favorite website, you are either an idiot or a right winger. Pardon the redundancy.
GG_NV November 13th, 2014 at 9:42 pm
If only government can treat people equally as with the internet as in net neutrality, we would all live in a better planet….
Abby Normal November 14th, 2014 at 1:08 am
Infinite stupidity.
Carla Akins November 14th, 2014 at 4:53 am
or it’s exactly the opposite.
OldLefty November 14th, 2014 at 6:33 am
Another case of Lying? OR… Stupid??
Or, I suspect, Lying, because they assume their followers are Stupid.
Jake November 14th, 2014 at 7:09 am
I think the bigger issue is why the US is so far behind the rest of the world in bandwidth. South Korea’s average bandwidth per household is almost three times faster than the US. Why can’t we emulate South Korean exceptionalism. The Republicans want to treat the internet like they do healthcare.
OldLefty November 14th, 2014 at 7:26 am
I think the bigger issue is why the US is so far behind the rest of the world in bandwidth
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Freedom and Liberty?
After all, the Founders didn’t need no stink’n bandwidth.
rg9rts November 14th, 2014 at 9:43 am
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
OldLefty November 14th, 2014 at 9:55 am
Also true.
mea_mark November 14th, 2014 at 9:07 am
This could be the issue that finally divides the republican party. There will be the blithering idiot side of the party and those that want their smart phones and tech devices to work properly without interference from the corporate masters. What the right-wing doesn’t realize, is how important peoples phones are to them. If destroying net-neutrality becomes an issue it will drive people to the polls to protect their phones. More people love their phones than love their guns. This is a winning issue for the democrats and if the right wants to attack it, I say bring it on. They will lose.
rg9rts November 14th, 2014 at 9:42 am
Is there no end to the idiocy of the rightwingnuts???
Maxx44 November 14th, 2014 at 9:43 am
Best rejoinder to the RWNJs yet:
http://theoatmeal.com/blog/net_neutrality
Kick Frenzy November 14th, 2014 at 10:53 am
You may be a Republican if…
– You think the internet should be run by China
alpacadaddy November 14th, 2014 at 2:51 pm
As a former career IT pro, I see once again the idiocy & danger of non-technical people making technical decisions!