Cable Lobbyists Pretending To Be Cool Digital Hipsters To Convince Youth That Net Neutrality Is Bad
Source: Consumerist
The fight for net neutrality has players from all corners amped up and joining in. Millions of individuals, as well as consumer advocacy groups, internet businesses, internet business groups, cable and telecom businesses, and their trade groups, have all been pressing the FCC toward one decision or another. But now there are some new groups wading in to the morass. They look like millennial, digital-savvy, pro-internet hispters but their message is straight out of Comcast and AT&Ts playbook. So whats going on?
ProPublica reports that a mysterious new ad campaign for the internet has popped up around the nation, but nobody can quite figure out whos sponsoring it or why.
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The installations are gathering messages of support for a campaign that calls itself Onward Internet (or, specifically, #onwardinternet because trendy). But who or what is Onward Internet?
Thats where the mystery comes in: nobody can quite figure that out. The closest message to an actual statement or policy position that Onward Internet has on their site is, the vaguely aspirational word salad, Unbounded by limits, unfettered by rules, its everyones responsibility to ensure that the Internet continues to advance.
That vaguely suggests that Onward Internet is interested in avoiding regulation, which would put them in the same bucket as ISPs like Comcast and Verizon. And while the production agency designing, installing, and manning the suggestion boxes wont name their client, one person at the San Francisco location did blurt: Its something called the National Cable and Telecommunications Association.
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Read more: http://consumerist.com/2014/10/09/cable-lobbyists-pretending-to-be-cool-digital-hipsters-to-convince-youth-that-net-neutrality-is-bad/
Prophet 451
(9,796 posts)Claim to be for freedom and liberty and Americans will encourage you to eat babies.
cprise
(8,445 posts)Its mostly about cultivating style, and that style can be imitated for nafarious purposes.
joshdawg
(2,648 posts)which basically said he is against net neutrality. At least that is what I interpreted from all the legalese gobbledygook that he spewed.
I knew it would be a waste of time since both of the Senators are republican, the other being Ted Cruz. Neither is looking out for the best interests of all Americans, just the corporatists. At least Cornyn had the decency to reply. Cruz is just not decent, period.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)one that doesn't eat babies for breakfast and want to kill all life on the planet?
navarth
(5,927 posts)very nicely done.
Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)navarth
(5,927 posts)Funny stuff. I guess I should be a little ashamed that I know Beavis and Butthead, but I'm not. Thanks for the giggles.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... the National Cable and Television Association (source). And guess who was their President?
Why it was Tom Wheeler (source), the guy President 'unequivocally committed to net neutrality' Obama named to head the FCC.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=914394
So if the Prez is so unequivocally committed to net neutrality why name the former head of a lobbying group working to end net neutrality as head of the FCC?
I'm sure tired of him talking the talk but failing to then walk the walk.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Trojan horse.
IthinkThereforeIAM
(3,076 posts)... and your enemies closer?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Tommymac
(7,263 posts)This needs to be all about Mr. Wheeler if this is true.
And done without focusing on Obama's role and letting the discussion degenerate into a love him/hate him affair. For now.
Trojan Horse indeed.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)navarth
(5,927 posts)It will be swarmed with many animated-icon-bearing obnoxious posters, but it should be brought up.
bigworld
(1,807 posts)They're trying to convince Congress. Once they kill off net neutrality they can do as they damn well please.
The kids can see through this (Or so I hope)
blackspade
(10,056 posts)PatrickforO
(14,574 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)contrary.
"Show me what you actually DO, and I'll tell you what you really BELIEVE."