Rush Limbaugh weighed in on Net Neutrality. As to be expected, he’s against it. A kindly listener has uploaded it to Blip for us:

Writing quickly here, I’ve only read a transcript given to me. Sadly I think he gets some points wrong. First, Net Neutrality isn’t yet a content-level fairness doctrine, but it’s true that if the FCC does as expected and deems ISPs no longer to be information services, then nothing will stop them from regulating content on the Internet the same way they regulate content on television. But they’re not trying that yet, because they’re still just getting the camel’s nose under the tent right now.

Basically, Rush is reading what is applied to ISPs as applying to websites. Websites don’t yet have to treat everyone equally under the plan of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, but your ISP does. And Google doesn’t want anyone to be able to charge you more depending on what strain you put on the network, as some perverted left wing notion of fairness, to echo what Rush said yesterday.

But still, I’m heartened that Rush is getting people thinking about Net Neutrality. Too many on the right have bought into the bland-sounding technobabble that Free Press and Google have been putting out, without seeing the neo-Marxism behind it. Traditional Marxists wanted control of the means of production of goods. Neo-Marxists want control over the production of information, because ours is an information-based economy today.

When FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski uses words like “regulate” and “Internet,” they mean precisely what he wants them to mean when he says them. So when he says he does not want to regulate the Internet, he means that he only wants to treat the Internet the way he treats your local NBC affiliate broadcasting USA Curling to your home. That affiliate, of course, is fully regulated by the FCC.

Now a federal court appears poised to say no, that Comcast is right, and the law does not give the FCC the authority to regulate firms that provide information services, such as ISPs. In response to such a ruling, which would kill the vast “Net Neutrality” regulatory scheme before it started, the FCC is going to declare that ISPs are no longer IT firms. In other words, Julius Genachowski will take an unfavorable court ruling, change the meanings of the words, and do what the court just told him is illegal. He is arrogant and believes himself above all oversight and control.

Don’t think that’s a likely outcome? Every big name in the ISP industry says otherwise in a letter to Julius Genachowski acquired by The Hill.

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