question about 'don't regulate.org' (anti-net neutrality)

[idgiehkt]

I keep seeing this ad on liberal sites, but media citizen says it is a front for telecom interests. They have an ad running on Americablog and on Raw Story. What gives, does anyone know?
http://www.dontregulate.org/

debunk by media citizen:
http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2006/05/lie-of-week_12.html

[MikeH]

1. A Buzzflash editorial about the subject

Pro-Internet Democracy Blogs Run Ads for Corporate Takeover of Net: Another Example of Why BuzzFlash Won't Accept Advertising

A BUZZFLASH EDITORIAL

Right now there is a fierce Capitol Hill war being waged over whether the Internet will continue to belong to the citizens of America or will start to move down the path that cable television went: only the big players will survive as fully accessible content providers, as the Telecom broadband providers start to set up toll gates on the Net.

To make this account simple: advocates of democracy on the Internet with virtually no barriers for content entry are known as proponents of "net neutrality." The Telecom companies who want to start charging tolls for content, among other nefarious plans, are the bad guys.

Right now, many of the leading progressive blogs on the net are running ads by the bad guys. Not only are these ads promoting the corporate takeover of Internet content, they are totally misleading, along the lines of the nuke industry running ads on "How Nuclear Leaks Make Your Community Healthier."

The ad in question leads to an Orwellian flash that tries to convince the viewers that the government is trying to "interfere" with the Internet and that this will destroy it, which is exactly what the people behind the ads are trying to do.

(more)

http://www.buzzflash.com/editorial/06/05/edi06033.html

[idgiehkt]

2. thanks so much for posting that.

it sort of explains it. They have this deal with "BlogAds". They need to dump the deal. At the very most, they need to explain, on their site, what is going on. Because they aren't acknowleging it at all and it is confusing a lot of people. Aravois ran a little editorial on it and posted both links, I sent his link out and then had to send out corrections once I found what was on the media citizen site. Shucks, this could do alot of damage...I don't think that they necessarily have to go the way of Buzzflash and not accept ads, just don't accept package deals where they can't control the content.