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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

Net-neutrality Group Challenged by Ties to MoveOn.Org, ACORN

Author:     SARA JEROME
Source:     The Hill
Publication Date:     08/23/10 09:24 AM ET
 Link: Net-neutrality Group Challenged by Ties to MoveOn.Org, ACORN
Stephan:   More and more I see signs suggesting that willful ignorance frequently results in a kind of self-destructive impulse. This is one such example. A child ought to be able to figure out that net neutrality is in the average person's interest. Just as a child ought to see that the mosque madness works against America's interests, or that universal health care ought to replace the illness profit model. And it ought to be obvious by now that Fox News is a propaganda organization. Yet over and over you see people operating from ignorance working against what would be best for themselves.

A bipartisan coalition in favor of net neutrality has lost a key conservative supporter amid signs that the issue is becoming more divisive.

The Gun Owners of America (GOA) severed ties with the net-neutrality coalition Save the Internet after a conservative blog questioned the association with liberal organizations such as ACORN and the ACLU.

The blog RedState described Save The Internet as a ‘neo-Marxist Robert McChesney-FreePress/Save the Internet think tank’ and questioned why GOA would participate in a coalition that includes liberal groups such as the ACLU, MoveOn.Org, SEIU, CREDO and ACORN.

GOA was one of the charter members of Save the Internet, but a spokesman for the gun rights group said times have changed.

‘Back in 2006 we supported net neutrality, as we had been concerned that AOL and others might continue to block pro-second amendment issues,’ said Erich Pratt, communications director for GOA.

‘The issue has now become one of government control of the Internet, and we are 100 percent opposed to that,’ Pratt said.

Save The Internet had long pointed to the support of gun owners as evidence that net neutrality is a nonpartisan issue.

Net-neutrality advocates are struggling to maintain bipartisan support during an election season that has cast the issue […]

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