Google and moveon.org Team to Wreck the Internet

Well now here's an interesting story. Google has just sent a chunk of coin to moveon.org to push leftist Democrat-sponsored legislation that would essentially "nationalize" the Internet, not to mention putting in motion the sort of censorship that would eventually drive the right out of Internet media, much the way it's been blocked from a meaningful presence in the old and dying MSM.

Google has become the single largest private corporate underwriter of MoveOn. According to sources in the Democrat National Committee, MoveOn has received more than $1 million from Google and its lobbyists in Washington to create grassroots support for the Internet regulation legislation. Some of that money has gone to an online petition drive and a letter-writing campaign, but the majority of that money is being used to fund their activities against Republicans out in the states.

For example, MoveOn is said by one DNC source to have funneled at least $100,000 "Net Neutrality" money to its operations in Pennsylvania (where MoveOn is organizing against Sen. Rick Santorum). It has also sent funds to Florida, Ohio, and Missouri.

MoveOn is also using the funds to help Democrats, including House minority leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Maria Cantwell of Washington state. "A month ago, Representative Pelosi didn't know what Net Neutrality was, then she heard that Google and other Silicon Valley firms wanted it. Now it's one of her top issues. What Silicon Valley wants, Silicon Valley gets," says a House Democrat leadership staffer.

Making matters worse, Republican lobbyist and former Congressman Vin Weber is trying to sweet-talk folks like the Christian Coalition into supporting anti-competition and Internet censorship, both of which are supported by this sneaky and ill-intended legislation.

"Word is that some of these groups are taking as much as $50,000 to sign on to support Internet regulation," says a House Energy Committee staffer. "It's remarkable that these groups are supporting legislation that would actually do more harm to them. That and the groups they are helping are actually working against them and many of the candidates they are supporting."

Is this world going nuts, or what? Keep up your guard, folks.

Read the rest here, courtesy of the American Spectator, which seems to be clawing its way back into the muckraking scene after spending a few years in the Dark Ages recently.