Radical Anti-First Amendment Group Consulted With FCC To Push Obama’s Internet Takeover

Thursday, June 2, 2011
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Judicial Watch has obtained documents that show that Free Press, a progressive group funded by George Soros and other leftist benefactors was colluding with the FCC to push through its plan for the government control of the internet known also known as net neutrality.

In December 2010, the FCC voted 3-2 to pass its net neutrality program, despite the fact just seven months earlier a federal appeals court ruled that the FCC had exceeded its authority in seeking to regulate the Internet and enforce “net neutrality” rules.

For those of you who are not familiar with Free Press it is a group dedicated to the exact opposite of its name. The group not only sees access to all media (including high speed internet) as a civil right, it also believes the the Government should have control of the message to “guarantee” that all sides are fairly represented. Of course its their definition of “all sides,” “fairly represented” and its all whether the people want it or not.

This is no hyperbole. For example one of the groups founders Robert McChesney is the former editor and current board member of the Marxist magazine Monthly Review, which has a fifty-year history of supporting Communist movements and regimes.

McChesney strongly believes in government control of the medium and the message.

In a 2000 article — titled “Journalism, Democracy, and Class Struggle” in Review, McChesney laid out his goal of using media as a tool for socialist change

“Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism

In 2009, McChesney said the following about capitalism and the media:

“Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.”
“There is no real answer but to remove brick by brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.”
“We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimalize it, and perhaps even eliminate it.”