Well this is disturbing...

[wildbilln864]

This was maybe posted already but I didn't find where so...

"All 95 Pro-Net Neutrality Candidates Lost On Tuesday

Posted by JacobSloan on November 5, 2010
Prior to this week’s election, 95 candidates running for the House and Senate had taken a pledge promising support of Net neutrality. On Tuesday, all 95 candidates lost. That’s right, every single one. Is that dismal result the “final nail in the coffin for Net neutrality” as CNN claims?

Before Tuesday’s midterm elections, there were 95 House and Senate candidates who pledged support for Net neutrality, a bill that would force Internet providers to not charge users more for certain kinds of Web content.

All of them lost — and that could mean the contentious proposal may now be all but dead."

more here.

[polichick]

1. This is beyond disturbing...

Add it to this: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/05/burke-comcast-msnbc/

...and the left will have precious few ways to communicate before long.

[howaboutme]

8. It ain't just the left

it will be anyone who isn't in the elite plutocracy/corporatocracy/controlled media.

I'm for totally open dialogue but this is a back door method to censorship by and for the existing media oligarchy.

It means that we're back to the message coming from the same MSM that thoroughly controlled the airwaves and print media before the internet allowed an egalitarian free haven for discussion and dialogue with many independent viewpoints and points of light.

Did you honestly think that the oligarchs wouldn't come up with a method to contain opinions and speech?

[Better Today]

2. It was a few days ago, but worth repeating. KnR

[felix_numinous]

3. K & R Oh no. nt

[Odin2005]

4. That's FISHY!

[dkofos]

5. Looks like the plan was to take control of the internets all along.

Damn those corporatist bastards!!!!!!!!!

[me b zola]

6. K&R

[CommonSensePLZ]

7. Gasp, you mean the tea party was never gonna give us smaller government!?

Who knew? :sarcasm:

[Kablooie]

9. Soon internet providers may be able to prevent DU from being seen.

The Olberman scandal brought this thought on.
Evidence is beginning to show that MSNBC is going to make a shift towards the right and Olbermann is the first direct evidence of this.
I would wager that if his donations went to Republicans we wouldn't hear a thing about it.

Without net neutrality private companies, who are free to express political bias, could censor whatever they wanted and most would certainly want to eliminate anti Republican discourse.

1984 wasn't 26 years ago.

[SoCalDem]

10. THIS is why "putting it off until later" is usually a BAD idea...n/t

[Jeffersons Ghost]

11. K&R a spooky last nail in the coffin of free-press

This is the Imperial, propaganda machine in high-gear.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

12. please keep this kicked and vote it up. this could spell the end of new members at DU

[Jeffersons Ghost]

13. K&R

[Quantess]

14. Oh, crap.

[Divine Discontent]

15. that's beyond a touch disturbing.... K&R

[Enthusiast]

16. Can this be a coincidence? nt

[Tsiyu]

17. kick n/t

[tex-wyo-dem]

18. K&R!

The corporate propoganda machine won't be happy until all forms of free speach that threaten their monopoly of the message are removed.