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Tea Party Groups Urge FCC to Dump Net Neutrality Plans

By james_fudge

A group of 35 different conservative organizations and Tea Party groups have sent a letter to FCC chairman Genachowski urging him to abandon plans to reclassify broadband and mobile phone service providers under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. The letter spells out how conservative groups feel about net neutrality rules - mainly because it would give government the power to regulate those companies that provide the lion's share of internet access to Americans. Tea Part Groups are generally anti-regulation.

Jamie Radtke, chairman of the Virginia Tea Party Patriot Federation - one of the many groups that signed the letter to the FCC on Wednesday - said that the net neutrality issue is "on the radar" now and is being talked about a lot more than it used to in group meetings and conference calls. Radke, speaking to The Hill, said that the Tea Party opposition to net neutrality is based on concerns over increased government power. Read More

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Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 13, 2010 (boomark / email).