Time For a Reality Check

By Harold Ford, Jr, Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council and Honorary Co-Chair of Broadband for America (BfA)

BfA Blog, 5/28/10

Unfortunately a group on the political fringe – Free Press – has resorted to distortions and hyperbole in response to the concerns I and others have registered over Title 2 reclassification. Even in this town, political hyperbole has to be held to some kind of reality standard, especially when it concerns something as important as getting broadband into the hands of all Americans.

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Unfortunately Josh Silver and Free Press choose to make up their own facts to serve their ends. They are putting the success of the FCC’s historical approach at risk by trying to bring political pressure on the FCC to cave in to their wishes by enacting dangerous and unprecedented regulations on broadband.

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Here’s the joke: While Free Press parades as the guardians of Internet freedom, they are pushing policies that would deny the Internet to those who need it most. They do not look out for the interests of everyday Americans who are concerned about jobs and the economy. They represent a small cadre of “internet elites” who are already connected.

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The jobs and opportunity that the internet will continue to bring are threatened by the policies championed by Free Press. Jobs and opportunity won’t come about if investors are scared away. That was the point I was trying to make – and will continue to make. I won’t back down from these guys.

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