There has been a lot of chatter from groups like Public knowledge and freepress telling you to vote against the merger between AT&T and T-Mobile. They say that the t-mobile customers will benefit from that company not being acquired and that it’s in their best interest. They use the  fear of losing current pricing as a way to create anxiety and sway opinion. But never really lay out the reality of what is going with [...]

Public Knowledge, an organization representing what I would call “digital elites,” has joined with other elite activist groups to push the FCC to adopt so-called Net Neutrality rules.  To do this, Public Knowledge uses carefully chosen words like “neutrally,” “openness” and “discrimination.” I find myself wondering whether they have any idea what these words mean.  As they insist that net neutrality will benefit minorities, I have serious doubts. First, Public Knowledge suggests that our civil [...]