In their own words...Why does the left want "net neutrality" regulation of the Internet? Posted by Christopher Butler on Monday, November 2nd, 2009 Marxist Robert McChesney founded the leftist group “Free Press” in 2002 to press for socialist reforms of the Internet, and a heavy regulatory hand on the ownership of other media. Free Press agitates for the so-called “fairness doctrine”, forcing equal time for the left to respond to conservative commentary on talk radio, and set-asides for community organizers on local broadcast stations. The former communications director for Free Press (Jen Howard) was one of Genachowski’s first hires as his own press liaison. Free Press’s full-time lobbying operation has been called by The Washington Post a leading driver of the so-called “network neutrality” effort that is calling for government intervention in the Internet. On the surface, advocates for government regulation of the Internet seem to be worried about simple issues of fairness, but even a cursory examination of the leaders behind the movement shows that this is the long wedge of an effort to nationalize the “means of mental production,” as if it were a 1917 coal plant in Kiev.* Robert McChesney, Free Press Robert McChesney, Free Press Robert McChesney, Free Press - “We need to do whatever we can to limit capitalist propaganda, regulate it, minimize it, and perhaps even eliminate it.” Robert McChesney, Free Press Robert McChesney, Free Press Robert McChesney and John Nichols, founders of Free Press Tanner Mirrlees, associate of Robert McChesney and author of “Communication and Culture.” Source Here