Eternally excellent Rachel Maddow allowed me to join her tonight (pretty much the only reason I own a TV now is to watch her show) for a discussion about John McCain’s “Internet Freedom Act,” also known as “The Great Telecom Reacharound of 2009.”
Why is the former presidential candidate who once described himself as technologically “illiterate” suddenly so worried about the nerdy details of internet architecture? Follow the money.
A Sunlight Foundation Report released yesterday says McCain received more telecom lobbying money than any other senator, over the past two years. We ought to stop calling him the senator from Arizona and start calling him the senator from AT&T.
Video: McCain Pushes Agenda Against Web Freedom (The Rachel Maddow Show)