50 Tweets for #NetNeutrality

Please pick, chose and retweet. Or tweet your own:

1. Historical view on how the Internet is "telecommunications" and why carriers shouldn't muck w/content http://twurl.nl/cyq3zw #NetNeutrality

2. Beck's war on the FCC (and Satan worshippers) Do his followers know they're just being "entertained?" http://twurl.nl/7pa11k #NetNeutrality

3. NYT: Right-wing talking points against #NetNeutrality are colorful but wrong. Oversight is needed: http://twurl.nl/n5w8kf

4. Cenk on how Fox News spins the astroturf line about #NetNeutralityas a "government takeover" http://twurl.nl/sr6kw5 #mediafail #p2

5. Comcast and Verizon execs agree: #FCC Title II plan won’t impact network investment http://twurl.nl/jcf7mm #NetNeutrality

6. James Rucker (@ColorofChange) explains how Web openness & access are intertwined and vital http://twurl.nl/jhcrga #NetNeutrality

7. Telco astroturf wouldn't spend $1.4m if they weren’t scared and they’re scared of 2mn people demanding #NetNeutrality http://twurl.nl/q0zvj4

8. "When all else fails, launch a scare campaign" http://twurl.nl/r0bdev #NetNeutrality #astroturf

9. Rep. Cliff Stearns introduces anti-#NetNeutrality bill. And his biggest corporate contributor is ... http://twurl.nl/ahpvp4

10. GigaOm: "For those who want to check out telecom. lobby & agenda in bill form, read Stearns’ leg." http://twurl.nl/2j0vh6 #NetNeutrality

11. Meanwhile at Fox, @GlennBeck links GE, NBC and @FreePress in vast conspiracy to take over the Web http://twurl.nl/phblpy #p2

12. Net Neutrality: The sum of all irrational fears: http://twurl.nl/sqhmsq #NetNeutrality #FCC

13. Would @GlennBeck hate #NetNeutrality as much, if he actually knew what it was? One can only wonder. http://twurl.nl/sqhmsq

14. Sen Dorgan & Com Copps: #FCC should move w/Internet speed to guarantee #NetNeutrality essential to dynamic democracy http://twurl.nl/wg0r56

15. Can you feel the power of the netroots. 2 million for #NetNeutrality. 250,000 for Title II www.savetheinternet.com

16. The nerdfighters chime in for #NetNeutrality http://twurl.nl/sjy5pb Geeks do rule!

17. AT&T (and friends) are still hard at work making up #NetNeutrality job loss figures http://twurl.nl/2b80t7 (via @mmasnick)

18. LA Times: FCC needs to step up regulation of Internet broadband service http://twurl.nl/y18x0d #NetNeutrality

19. Do the numbers add up? A closer look at controversial study that suggests #NetNeutrality costs jobs http://twurl.nl/8efd2a

20. Why media reform matters right now? Two must watch videoshttp://twurl.nl/vatda5 #NetNeutrality #SavetheNews

21. The Christian Coalition takes on Glenn Beck: #NetNeutrality is not some Marxist plot: http://twurl.nl/kw6vif #p2 #tcot

22. Extremists distort the #NetNeutrality issue as part of a secretly "coordinated attack" to censor people http://twurl.nl/mbdukn

23. Rep. Markey makes plea for reclassifying broadband; joins 250,000 other people who have urged the same #NetNeutrality http://bit.ly/cLAIBP

24. Washington Post: #NetNeutrality not a government plot. It's about ensuring your ISP can't limit what you do online http://twurl.nl/gz3wtg

25. Tim Wu: Net Neutrality is not dead. The FCC just needs to fix Bush-era mistakes: http://twurl.nl/jpsi7f #NetNeutrality #fcc

26. Watch the Pulitzer Center interview on how #NetNeutrality protects free speech and new journalism on the Web: http://twurl.nl/p86x4w

27. Join the ColorofChange action in support of #NetNeutrality http://www.colorofchange.org/opennet/ (pls sign and RT)

28. Why Net Neutrality is too important to leave up to ISPs (via @gigaom) #NetNeutrality http://twurl.nl/a3fbsg

29. Two venture capitalists on #NetNeutrality. If we lose it, we lose companies to invest in http://twurl.nl/ho4w2k http://twurl.nl/588uqm

30. Libraries understand that #NetNeutrality is essential: http://twurl.nl/keq8qh

31. AT&T sees Net access as scarce commodity to be rationed and filtered at spiraling costs http://twurl.nl/y3jrha #NetNeutrality

32. How Christian Coalition, MoveOn (and other strange bedfellows) helped Save the Internet together http://twurl.nl/gcvlg2 #NetNeutrality

33. #FCC Commissioner M. Clyburn not neutral on #NetNeutrality: http://twurl.nl/rmw64n

34. Experts warn of an ISP-controlled Internet w/o #NetNeutrality http://twurl.nl/kbfi7k

35. Harvard survey finds open access and #NetNeutrality vital to competition, universal access, low prices & high speeds http://twurl.nl/y3smg2

36. James Rucker of @colorofchange makes the case, again, for civil rights community to support #NetNeutrality http://twurl.nl/aczwj4

37. Close America's broadband gap? The phone and cable giants just say 'No' http://twurl.nl/8z3eow #NetNeutrality #DigitalDivide

38. Tea Party conservatives show support for #NetNeutrality: http://twurl.nl/ktexh4 Good to see right and left agreeing on some things.

39. Another telco talking point against #NetNeutrality (That it costs jobs) proven false http://twurl.nl/e28ncr

40. VIDEO: President Obama hits it out of the park for #NetNeutrality http://twurl.nl/g7rr4t (pls rt)

41. Why are some civil rights groups are on the wrong side of Net Neutrality? http://twurl.nl/ti6fd7 via @colorofchange #NetNeutrality

42. Why Media and Journalism Scholars Support Net Neutrality http://bit.ly/9SQu2E #NetNeutrality

43. #FCC Commissioner Clyburn says #NetNeutrality is in best interest of people of color – and all Americans: http://bit.ly/5gO8Kg

44. The conservative case for #NetNeutrality http://twurl.nl/71v1b1

45. Gamers warn of "balkanized" Internet. Call for #NetNeutrality protections: http://twurl.nl/xhdwtj

46. #NetNeutrality is a “matter of freedom of communication... This should be a basic right of citizenship” http://twurl.nl/oqib7g

47. NYU economists: #NetNeutrality fuels an open dynamic that “creates billions of dollars in value for American public” http://twurl.nl/b3hj2e

48. Making the case that #NetNeutrality fuels economic prosperity: http://twurl.nl/wkf3sj

49. I trust that the more than 30K gamers who've signed letters in support of #NetNeutrality http://twurl.nl/28xc6t Whom do you trust?

50. Rush gets #NetNeutrality. It's when Google and Obama take over your "Rush Limbaugh" search results. Yes sirree http://twurl.nl/ssg00z

Fox Goes Wall to Wall on Tiara-gate

The supposed controversy surrounding Sunday Night's crowning of Miss America was made to order for Fox News Channel. What better than a story that mixes the Network's love of beauty queens with its penchant for stirring up right-wing anger over issues like gay marriage and immigration.

Over the air and on the web, Fox devoted much of its coverage to questioning whether Miss Oklahoma was "sandbagged" by the liberal elite for her support of Arizona's anti-immigration law. Bumped from the front page of FoxNews.com: any mention of the BP oil spill in the Gulf, new information on the attempted Time Square bombing and coverage of the Supreme Court nomination.

The messages behind those news items are perhaps too nuanced for Roger Ailes, who seems to prefer his reporting wrapped in a political message and sprinkled with conspiracy.

It also helps to have women in bikinis.

Net Neutrality: The Sum of All Irrational Fears

Would the right’s lunatic fringe hate Net Neutrality so much, if they actually knew what it was? One can only wonder.

'They will control you' -- Glenn Beck on his radio show:

We’re not going to lose this country we are losing this country. I don’t think people understand how close we are today. Today the FCC is going to turn the Internet into a public utility, which means they have the power to control and regulate every bit of it.

They just were told by a court that they cannot have Net Neutrality. They said: “Fine we can’t do it that way. We will make it a public utility.” This will control every aspect of the Internet. And if you don’t think that people who praise Chavez and his revolution as an important democratic revolution will control every aspect of this Internet.

Mark my words. Listen to this carefully. It’s not going to happen today. It’s not going to happen in the next couple of weeks. It may not even happen in the next year. But it will happen. They’ve opened the door and your rights to speak out, put things out on the Internet, to express yourselves on a blog, to be able to make a political video … gone!

With this administration and, you know what, any progressive – even Republican – administration – they will limit your speech on the Internet and control it.If you think we could lose our rights, if you think we could lose our country, you’re mistaken. We are losing our country.

'A Neo-Marxist vision' -- Neil Stevens at RedState.com:

Part of Google’s drive has been in funding Free Press, a radical fringe group dedicated to the nationalization of all mass media in America.

Their neo-Marxist vision is to have people’s state commissars dictating all the news you read in the newspaper, watch on television, and see on the Internet. Obviously, they’ve been pushing hard for deem-and-pass “reclassification” of the Internet under FCC total control.

A 'Nucllear Option' -- Phil Kerpen of Americans for Prosperity on Fox News:

With today’s announcement the FCC shows it is more interested in satisfying a left-wing political constituency than continuing sound policy...

Free Press put out a statement yesterday just minutes after the story leaked that the FCC would pursue reclassification. Remarkably, they openly stated that even the nuclear option of total regulatory control under a utility-type model is not enough for them, saying: “This is extremely welcome news. We reserve judgment, however, on whether the FCC has gone far enough.”

'Another Obama Takeover' -- House Republican Leader John Boehner on Twitter, twice:

“Obama FCC scheme would reclassify internet as a phone system in order to expand gov't power.”

“FCC plan to regulate internet will stifle innovation, kill jobs. Another gov't takeover by President Obama.”