StopNetRegulation.org, a project of the Center for Individual Freedom (“CFIF”), is urging its activists and other concerned citizens in Minnesota to voice their opposition to so-called “Net Neutrality” and spread the truth about the special interest groups pushing a government takeover of the Internet at a public hearing being held in Minneapolis later this evening.
The public hearing on the “Future of the Internet” is scheduled to take place at 6 p.m. tonight in the auditorium of South High School, 3131 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is being hosted by Free Press, Main Street Project and Center for Media Justice – groups advocating total government control of the Internet – and will feature FCC Commissioners Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn. Commissioner Copps has long been a proponent of over-regulating the Internet. Another proponent of Internet overregulation – Minnesota Democrat Senator Al Franken – will also be in attendance.
“This so-called public hearing amounts to nothing more than a love fest of leftist special interest groups and their FCC champions who would like nothing more than a complete government takeover of the Internet,” said CFIF president Jeffrey Mazzella. “In advocating for ‘Net Neutrality’ and other burdensome and unnecessary regulations on the Internet, they are seeking a solution in search of a nonexistent problem. The Internet is already free and open. The government takeover these groups advocate threaten to grind the wheels of private investment, innovation, growth and job creation spurred by the Internet to a complete halt,” Mazzella said.
In addition to urging its activists and other concerned Minnesotans to attend the hearing and voice their opposition to “Net Neutrality,” StopNetRegulation.org is encouraging attendees to spread the truth about Free Press and its radical agenda by handing out a flyer, which can be downloaded here.
“It is important for the people of Minneapolis and America to know just how radical Free Press and their media ‘reform’ agenda are,” said Seton Motley, Editor in Chief of StopNetRegulation.org. “Its goals of FCC Internet reclassification and Network Neutrality will have but one result – far greater government control of the Internet. Americans who love the First Amendment and a free World Wide Web must stand opposed to Free Press’s Media Marxist objectives,” Motley concluded.
