What Obama's FCC is about to do to the Internet is similar to what Clinton did to broadcasting in 96 [View all]

[Armstead]

Trash it.

That's what the Clinton administration and his Centrist Corporate allies in Congress did to broadcasting with the 1996 Telecommunications Reform Act. They told us it would be a glorious reform that would address modern realities and technological advantages and allow the electronic broadcast media to flourish.

Instead it opened the floodgates to the destruction of broadcasting as a public service and completed the Corporate Takeover of the Airwaves by gutting the ability to control who owns radio and TV stations and what they did with them.

As a result, we have seen corporations like Clear Channel buy up almost every damn radio and TV station in the country and fill it full of total crap -- with NO obligation to serve the public interest.

That is what the Obama Corporate FCC in cahoots with the Corporate Court System and the Corporate Congress are about to do to the Internet. Trash It.

And, just as Clinton and the Centrist Democrats used their silver tongues to tell us how wonderful the Telecommunications Deform Act would be -- and how they would make sure that Big Media would play nice -- the Corporate Centrists are now telling us how they will protect Net Neutrality, and make sure those Wonderful Corporate ISPs will behave well and make sure that no one is shut out of access to the Internet.

And we're going to fall for the same damn shell game.