{"id":6125,"date":"2009-09-22T22:00:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-23T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/09\/att-linked-to-gop-senators-who-have-proposed-anti-net-neutrality-bill-in-congress-pretend-to-be-shocked-please\/"},"modified":"2009-09-22T22:00:30","modified_gmt":"2009-09-23T05:00:30","slug":"att-linked-to-gop-senators-who-have-proposed-anti-net-neutrality-bill-in-congress-pretend-to-be-shocked-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2009\/09\/att-linked-to-gop-senators-who-have-proposed-anti-net-neutrality-bill-in-congress-pretend-to-be-shocked-please\/","title":{"rendered":"AT&T linked to GOP senators who have proposed anti-Net Neutrality bill in Congress. Pretend to be shocked, please."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nicholas \u201cNet Neutrality\u201d Deleon here with truly shocking news: six Republican senators have tacked on an amendment to an appropriations bill that would block the FCC\u2019s attempt to make Net Neutrality a reality. So remember, kids: when you think of a free and open Internet, don\u2019t think of the GOP. It\u2019s not your friend here.<\/p>\n

The Senators involved are: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas; Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas; Sen. Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina; Sen. John Ensign of Nevada; Sen. John Thune of South Dakota; and Sen. David Vitter of Louisiana.<\/p>\n

It literally took two seconds to look up these guys\u2019 top contributors, and you\u2019ll be absolutely shocked at the findings. Guess who is Sen Brownback\u2019s top donor this cycle? AT&T at a cool $11,000 so far! Sen. Brownback? Oh my, looks like AT&T has given him some $35,000 thus far! And what about that Vitter gentleman? Yeah, AT&T has given him $19,500 this cycle.<\/p>\n

So that\u2019s three out of the six senators who have a huge financial incentive to see to it that AT&T doesn\u2019t have to play nice by the Net Neutrality rules.<\/p>\n

You folks are free to draw your own conclusions, but if I were you I\u2019d make a cool Twitter hashtag like \u201c#ATTSENATORS.\u201d I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only person who finds it a little bit suspicious that three of the senators who have attached their name to the amendment are sucking at the teat of AT&T.<\/p>\n

But whatever. It\u2019s just the Internet. Who cares about that?<\/p>\n

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So that\u2019s three out of the six senators who have a huge financial incentive to see to it that AT&T doesn\u2019t have to play nice by the Net Neutrality rules. … I\u2019m sure I\u2019m not the only person who finds it a little bit suspicious that three of the senators who have attached their name to the amendment are sucking at the teat of AT&T. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-1AN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}