Glenn Beck’s war on the FCC (and Satan worshippers)
By [Nate Anderson](http://arstechnica.com/author/nate-anderson/) | Last updated about 13 hours ago
Right-wing talker Glenn Beck [took to his Fox News TV program last Monday night](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,592610,00.html) to deliver a rant about how President Obama has compiled something "almost like an enemies list" and how Obama is into "silencing opponents." The president's tool of choice for this censorship? Network neutrality—the principle that ISPs <i>cannot</i> interfere with content.
“We are dealing with people who think they should rebel until they get their little kingdom like Satan did,” said Beck. “You know what? Thanks, Mr. President, but I think we’re going to keep the Internet the way it is right now. You know—or at least until people who are worshipping Satan, you know, aren’t in office.”
The mechanism by which net neutrality will silence Beck and those like him remains murky, but the matter is clearly of great concern.
“The FCC also says they are marching forward, marching with a boot on your throat to— announcing plans to make Internet companies a public utility,” he said. “Net neutrality—the court shot that one down, but they are going to make it a public utility now.”
Or again: “So now, the president wants to regulate the Internet, to help control all the misinformation out there. He is going to do it with net neutrality. Well, the court said no… So, now what they’re doing is the FCC is just going to—they’re going to make it a public utility. The Internet. Where are you, America, without the Internet?”
Most people don’t have a clue what net neutrality is about… look at the misinformation that was being spread on here about it… imagine that nationwide. People don’t realize that the internet is currently not-neutral and is controlled.
If the CNN’s and MSNBC’s of the world had the journalistic integrity to cover stories like Acorn and Van Jones Beck wouldn’t have the audience he has today. He gain major credibility points on those stories when every other news organization simply accepted the Obama administration’s blanket statement of “there’s nothing to see here”.
Beck unfortunately has a lot of misses. Even more unfortunately is he also gets some things dead on that the mainstream media just refuses to cover for some unknown reason. The fact that our Obama appointed green jobs czar was a 9/11 truther and supported violent radicals most of his life is a story to me, as it was to most of the country.
So basically, yeah, I’ll listen to Beck. I may dismiss 95% of what he says but I’ll keep listening for that 5% where he’s right and covering a story the mainstream wants to ignore.
I don’t think he is insane. I think he just looked at Rush and realized the louder he screams about stuff that isn’t really true and doesnt make any real sense, the more money he will make.