Beck repeats absurd attack: net neutrality would "destroy the free market that created the Internet"

Up is down in the right-wing world. What conservatives basically want to do is make it legal for the Telcoms to extort their customers.

Hey Glenn, I hate to break it to you, but DARPA created the internet, the military/Government created the internet, NOT the free market.

Politics aside, the fact that there is a platform for Beck make statements like this that are 180 degrees removed the truth to a sizable audience is not a sign of a healthy media.

That the lie serves the interests of powerful corporations makes it appear to be by design.

Who's winning at Connect 4?

Is he really this ignorant (especially about this topic) or is he deliberately trying to mislead people?

and people get sucked in by this nimcompoop.

Maybe Glenn should have Ted Stevens as a guest to explain this whole net neutrality thing to us idiots.

Beck repeats absurd attack: net neutrality would "destroy the free market that created the Internet"

Well I see Becky you support the corporations making rules on what site people would want to log on or how fast our downloads can be, because a coporation likes a website better than the other.

And can anyone guess what media giant would try to control the internet?

It's good of Beck to point out the silver lining in the cloud that would be the death of net neutrality: I could get a discount on an internet package that didn't have to give bandwidth for his insane yammering!

Ah c'mon Becky. It just means you'll be able to view more on-line porn sites.

But you may want to consult your magic hat first, to see if god approves.

http://mormonism.suite101.com/article.cfm/book_of_mormon_translation_process

http://www.realmormonhistory.com/

CERN made the WWW to use the internet.

INTERNETS AM COMMUNISTS!!!!!!!!!!!!

There's a whole lot of things wrong with Beck's little act here but let's go with the most obvious thing.

Do you realize, Beck, that net neutrality is the policy on which the internet has been built up? Do you realize that the FCC has been going after ISPs for breaking this policy for years? And do you also realize that this law will merely make it easier for our society to preserve the internet as we know it against the slew of lawsuits that continues to be thrown at the FCC? All this will do is unequivocally enshrine as the law of the land the current state of the internet. This is no radical change, your door will not be kicked down by Obama Internet Cops. "Damn, yo, it's the OIC! Quick, flush all the data!"

DARPA the R and D arm of the Defense Dept. created the internet. Obviously, they were funded with by federal tax $$ . . . yours and my $$$. Once again Beck supports corporate communism as he supports giving telecom corporations the internet that my $$ went to build. Taxpayer $$ being funneled to rich powerful corporations so they can be more rich and powerful. Thanks Glennda.

Dear Mormonster,

Maybe you think that most of those in your audience are ignorant (FYI, this means "uninformed") but there are lots of folks out here that droolingly wait for you to say something reeeeeally stooooopid like this.

Thank you for never failing to satiate (Google it).

Buuurrp!

My conservative uncle, who wouldn't know the first thing about obtaining an email address, let alone knowing how to even turn on a computer, likes to attack me because, as he says, I "read liberal blogs." Somehow he 'knows' that a liberal blog is filled with lies but he doesn't know what a blog is. I asked him. He has no idea.

After renovating his house, he got 5 gigantic Plasma TVs. Only he and my aunt live there. He's got a 46" TV in the kitchen. You can walk from room to room and not miss a second of Fox News.

I can't wait until Thanksgiving when he attacks me for supporting Net Neutrality.

My uncle and the millions of old-conservafarties like him are exactly who Beck is targeting here. But I don't even believe Beck knows what he's talking about. "Free market that created the Internet"? Are you serious!?

Beck has pulled so much of this out of his anus that the void left there will one day suck up all his conservazombies and create one dumb singularity. That is the real threat.

Apparently Beck's fact-checkers (some of the biggest minds in America, remember?) overlooked a few things when they cobbled together the misinformation Beck presented to his audience during this particular episode. First and foremost, the "internet" was not "created by the free market". The first network was DARPAnet, created by the US government! DARPAnet was essentially the cornerstone for the World Wide Web Project (at CERN in Switzerland) that brought us the "internet" as we know it today. I guess Beck's "big minds" have trouble finding the actual facts on the issue, much the way a woman with a big purse has trouble finding her keys or wallet. If nothing else, this episode of the Beck show proves that bigger isn't always better.