Far right ramps up internet paranoia
After sinking almost out of sight for a while, the far right’s campaign of paranoia over federal control of the internet appears to be gaining traction again, at least among the usual suspects.
This recycles the same tactics as previous campaigns, flat-out impossibilities and a misinterpretation of the term “net neutrality,” but adapts it to the all-encompassing fear and loathing of Obama.
Alex Jones’s detestable Prison Planet website features a new article, full of recycled distortions, on this very subject.New Bill Gives Obama ‘Kill Switch’ To Shut Down The Internet (Link to Google cached page.)
More technically minded lizardoids can explain why it is essentially impossible to “shut down the internet,” or at least a lot harder than sending Delta Force to raid Jones’s office (something else he perennially fears).
Nominally less crazy rightwing sites, like Free Republic, are falling right into line with Jones (as seems to happen more and more often these days):
NET Neutrality and Internet Restrictions Coming Soon!
Without spending a lot of time going into the details, read this teaser from Fox News. 3 DEMOCRATS have decided to REVISIT Internet Regulations that were abandoned in 1992. Do I hear “net neutrality” and press restrictions coming soon? Only the REPUBLICANS opposed the action. Part of the Obama / Chavez plan to restrict dissent on the takeover by the hardcore left.
Actually, it was the Wall Street Journal and 2002 rather than 1992, but facts hardly matter in nonsense like this.