More dishonesty from Senators on Net Neutrality
September 21st, 2006 | 
Author: Yet again politicians who have recieved millions in funding from large corporations are try to lie to us and tell us something that is horribly wrong and bad for us is what’s best for us. It’s almost as bad as passing out cigarettes at a grade school. Ok, maybe not that bad, but close. Here’s the story:
“ Ted Stevens thinks we’re stupid. Trying to put this Net Neutrality debate to rest in the Senate, Stevens (R-AK) distributed the results of a “bipartisan” poll indicating that the vast majority of Americans would rather watch more TV than have a neutral Internet.
Neither Stevens nor the pollsters mention that Verizon paid $60,000 for the poll, or that the questions were phrased using classic push-poll tactics.
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“A rough translation of the questions:
1. Do you like TV?
2. Would you like to watch more TV?
3. Which is better: cheap TV or expensive TV?
4. What if your TV breaks? Would you like someone to fix it?
5. Do you like good TV or bad TV?
6. Put these in order from most important to least important:
a.) helping people stay alive
b.) more TV
c.) healing the blind
d.) slow Internet, less TV, and killing people
Stevens and company interpreted the results to mean that “onerous Net Neutrality regulations” would interfere with the nation’s TV watching and therefore should be put to rest.
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