I had wondered whether Obama would push for a Net Neutrality law to be passed, and now I realize that he has no reason to do so. His administration will love nothing more than to see a shutdown of the kind of independent reporting that wikileaks is doing. He can allow the telecoms to just railroad the independent journalists out of the discussion, and all his administration has to do is sit and watch (while claiming to be “for” net neutrality, but scared that there are not “enough votes in the senate” to warrant taking a leadership position on it).
In essence, he will use his public option strategy on this one as well, and ultimately make the telecoms very happy to fund his reelection bid, as well as making sure no more embarrassing videos from the war front show up in people’s computers.
We really thought he would be a Progressive President. Gosh were we wrong.