Skeptic Project

The FCC's push for Net Neutrality legislation suffered another setback on Tuesday, after all 95 of the candidates who pledged their support for it lost their elections.

The Progressive Change Campaign Committee site has had a list of 95 candidates, all Democrats, listed on netneutralityprotectors.com/ as pledged supporters of Net Neutrality.

But, as CNN Money reports, all of them lost.

The FCC has been trying to expand its authority to regulate broadband internet providers, initially losing a court case in April. After that, it pushed Congress to pass legislation that would prevent the providers from blocking access to certain internet content, and force them to treat all web content providers equally.

Republicans have mostly been opposed to Net Neutrality, and the Tea Party even formed a coalition against it back in August, arguing that it hurts freedom.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/all-95-candidates-who-pledged-support-for-net-neutrality-lost-on-tuesday.php?ref=tn

Glenn Beck actually talked on his show because how the Internet was never neutral and was forced to be that way by big bad government. I'm not kidding, he said that. Holy shit.

He also once said the FDA was only invented because Coca-Cola had coca in it (not true), but then Coca-Cola never had coca in it (not true), and so Coca-Cola was forced to add it and then remove it! (not true) The layers of lies on why the FDA is evil.