Internet and Marxism!

I've got a burr in my britches and I have to get this exposed. I've been involved in an ongoing discussion about a video supporting net neutrality. For reference here's the link....

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.savetheinternet.com%2F&h=e63b5VZRreJl-kA_OFz0zmgpaqQ

Now this video uses the youth of this nation,(the ones most addicted to the Internet), to promote legislation that they say will keep the Internet free. They infer the corporations that bring us this luxury are trying to slow down your connection, charge more for faster speeds, and censor the content. The solution suggested by the makers of this video is to place control of the Internet in the hands of the government., allowing the FCC to "keep things on a level playing field."

As you might imagine it has users of the web up in arms, but then it was designed to do that. How dare the evil corporations mess with the freedom I'm used to when searching the web! They're trying to profit from something I consider a basic right! I should be allowed to watch videos of kitties doing silly things when ever I please, not slowed down by their connection speed control. And how dare they try to charge me extra for this service. All very compelling arguments, but all so very flawed.

First, of all if the government gets it's paws on your Internet, you'll see censorship. The FCC currently controls the television industry, I think we can all agree the content on TV is monitored and censored. You cannot watch what you want when you want, as suggested by the makers of this video.

Secondly, the FCC controls the way TV is delivered to your home. You have the option of an air signal, cable, or satellite. I think we can all agree there is not much difference in programming or pricing.

Third, this is about choices, or further defined...freedom. Right now you have options, you can search the web via dial-up, cable, DSL, satellite, or with your mobile carrier. You have options and a menu of pricing and speeds available to you. The free market principles demand diversity because if another company offers you better value, everyone will switch to it. I'll use the I-phone as an example here. Apple's innovation became all the rage and the standard of the cell phone industry, they charge more for their product, and there is a waiting list, because consumers want what they have to offer. It's better than anyone else. If you'll notice there is no stand out in TV providers. There used to be when satellite was free to all who paid for a dish, but then the government regulated it, (that would be the FCC, the same entity who'll be in charge of overseeing the Internet). Not so much now.

Fourth. when has government involvement in anything improved it? Great examples of their prowess brings to mind, the post office, Amtrak, the oil spill, social security, medicaid, medicare, wars, the DMV, and anything you can find in your life to complain about, I'll bet the government has it's hands into.

Now these all exceptional examples of why not to let the government be involved with this process, but here's the clincher. I had a problem with the way this message was delivered, it just bothered me and I knew something was wrong. It reeked of misinformation, and used the naive and vulnerable youth to deliver it. What kind of organization would stoop to these tactics? I'm glad you asked that question! This video was produced by Free press, a sister organization to Media matters. They are both the dream children of one Robert Mc Chesney.


"Free Press is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, quality journalism, and universal access to communications. Free Press was launched in late 2002 by media scholar Robert W. McChesney, journalist John Nichols and Josh Silver, our executive director."

Robert W. McChesney is a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he teaches in the Department of Communication. McChesney also hosts the “Media Matters” weekly radio on WILL-AM radio. Chensey, former editor of the socialist & Marxist Monthly Review, now is director of the foundation that operates the magazine. He is also an activist who speaks out against the free market in the media industry with such statements as this taken from an interview he gave for the Socialist Project in August 2009,

"Instead of waiting for the revolution to happen, we learned that unless you make significant changes in the media, it will be vastly more difficult to have a revolution. While the media is not the single most important issue in the world, it is one of the core issues that any successful Left project needs to integrate into its strategic program."

However, with Robert McChesney it does not stop there. Free Press co-authored a 2007 report with the FCC's "Chief Diversity Czar" Mark Lloyd entitled, "The Structural Imbalance of Political Talk Radio, " where they suggest the listening trends of people preferring "Conservative & Christian" programs as a 'free market' problem they wish to solve. One solution from the report states that the FCC should, "restore local and national caps on the ownership of commercial radio stations," which would in turn limit the very voice they are trying to allow to become more diverse. Mark Lloyd & Free Press have many views in which they share and I strongly suggest you learn for yourself many of their views. McChesney goes on about the Media and states in his article, "The U.S. Media Reform Movement: Going Forward," from the Monthly Review:
"The media system reflected the nature of the U.S. political economy, and any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist political economy."

"These gains will only be made through an enormous class struggle from below. If won, they will not, we underscore, eliminate the evils of capitalism, or the dangers it poses for the world and its people. In the end, there is no real answer but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles

Now that's just a sample of the opinions of the revolutionary Marxist who is delivering this propaganda to our youth. He also has on the board of directors self proclaimed Marxist Mr. Van Jones, you might remember him as the fellow who left the Obama administration in the middle of the night once he was exposed as a revolutionary Marxist. So it's not a coincidence they target this propaganda toward our youth, nor is it unusual they seek control of the media. Does anything Karl Marx teach follow the ideals of a free society? He has nothing to offer me. How about you?

God Bless!
Capt. Bill