Ask yourself this: Why would a bunch of Christian radio owners not only care about net neutrality but fervently believe that it's something they should hate and fear?
I have no idea either, but they do. Net neutrality is the principle that Internet service providers shouldn't be able to discriminate against particular websites, say by charging some more to get access to you than others. It's the way the Internet works now, and the way many people believe it ought to continue to work. In a speech to the National Religious Broadcasters, Speaker of the House John Boehner assured them that congressional Republicans are going to fight it with everything they've got:
The last thing we need, in my view, is the FCC serving as Internet traffic controller, and potentially running roughshod over local broadcasters who have been serving their communities with free content for decades. At the end of the last Congress, some members of Congress sought a compromise on net neutrality that would give Washington temporary control of the Internet while we sort this all out. As far as I'm concerned, there is no compromise or middle ground when it comes to protecting our most basic freedoms. So our new majority in the House is committed to using every tool at our disposal to fight a government takeover of the Internet.
"Our most basic freedoms," like the freedom of Comcast to extort money from people and companies with websites it thinks it can shake down? What now?
Don't try to make sense of this. The only explanation I can come up with is that liberals, who are notoriously fond of the Internet, are in favor of net neutrality, and therefore conservatives just know it's something they should hate. And the owners of Christian radio stations? They hate it, too, even though it has absolutely nothing to do with them. Because they know who their enemies are.
