Glenn Beck has repeatedly said that if he made "inaccurate" statements, Fox News "would have fired me long ago." But Beck has been imparting information that is incontrovertibly wrong about proposed net neutrality regulations. If Fox won't take it from us, how about the Christian Coalition or the libertarian Cato Institute?
When asked recently by Bill O'Reilly to explain what net neutrality means, Beck said "it's basically the Fairness Doctrine on the Internet" and that it would regulate Internet content. He has also claimed that net neutrality would require his website to provide content from left-leaning sources like the Huffington Post.
Michele Combs of the Christian Coalition told Media Matters that Beck is "misinformed" about this issue. Combs also provided this statement:
The Fairness Doctrine is an abandoned policy that required broadcasters to air programs that discussed controversial issues and to require a variety of different points of view on those issues.
In contrast, network neutrality does not regulate content. It simply prohibits and Internet access provider from preventing consumers from accessing the lawful content of their choice online.
The Christian Coalition supports net neutrality regulation. The Cato Institute does not. Both agree that Beck has his facts wrong. Julian Sanchez, a research fellow at Cato, told Media Matters that "Beck is clearly mistaken":
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