Suspicions of FCC foot-dragging on net neutrality seem to be fully justified by the passing of these recent rulings favoring corporate “freedom of money” over citizens’ freedom of speech.
  Not surprisingly, this may be an attempt to lash out at the recent WikiLeaks releases. There is a petition to sign at Bold Progressives.org:
http://act.boldprogressives.org/sign/sign_netneutrality_3things/)

Verizon has links to the Pentagon. No surprise that they are seen as ‘trustworthy’ by the military/industrial complex.

Regarding “net neutrality” and all other questions of keeping the net open and free, in all fairness TD should be publishing Julian Assange’s long and important interview headlined today (12/21)in the London Guardian.  Questions are answered frankly and some misinterpretations are corrected.
  In conclusion the interviewer asks:
Q: “You want to change the world?”  Assange’s answer:

JA: “Absolutely. The world has a lot of problems and they need to be reformed. And we only live once. Every person who has some ability to do something about it, if they are a person of good character, has the duty to try and fix the problems in the environment which they’re in.
  “That is a value, that, yes, comes partly from my temperament. There is also a value that comes from my father, which is that capable, generous men don’t create victims, they try and save people from becoming victims. That is what they are tasked to do. If they do not do that they are not worthy of respect or they are not capable.”
  Which is it with us?

Here is a thought from Minnesot-ah

Senator Al “Stewart Smalley” Franken is a fake progressive.

Or did I imagine that Big Al did not carry water for president Oily Bomber and clap
and cheer him when Oily Bomber came and spoke at the Gopher Stadium in
Minneapolis a few months ago.

Never mind his initial support of the war in Iraq, support of corporate healthcare
or the latest betrayal in the continued Bush era tax cuts to the very wealthy..

After which, he sobs and writes an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune about
just how “tough it was” to vote Aye for it..

DemocracyNow has a good segment this morning on the not really net neutrality being done by Dems. http://www.democracynow.org  We are about to be screwed again by the corporatist Obama.  I won’t vote for him again.  The question is: whose name do I write in on the ballot in 2012?  For good criticism of Obama (for years), http://www.blackagendareport.com