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If pro-market advocates are store fronts, Free Press is a mall

Posted May 25th, 2010 in Broadband, FCC, Government Regulation, net neutrality and tagged , , by Alton Drew

Mike McCurry’s quote in his National Journal Magazine article regarding the disdain groups like Free Press have for corporations and capitalism is spot on. Isn’t Free Press a content provider? Why aren’t they out producing content for sale in the free market instead of seeking out taxpayer funded subsidies?

The answer is that Free Press believes that government intervention is the only way to ensure serving consumers even in the face of no market failure. Advocating for regulations that would require a start-up Internet protocol television provider serving apartment buildings to disclose its management practices could only come from groups who are anti-market and anti-innovation.

Sorry but I just can’t buy the Astroturf argument. If groups that advocate for no regulation of the Internet are store front groups for the telecoms, then Free Press is synonymous to the Mall of America with Google as its biggest tenant.

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