Moveon.org, through its FreePress/SaveTheInternet puppets, loves to extol the virtues of grass roots democracy and claim to the press that there is a spontaneous groundswell for their net neutrality views in the "netroots." BALONEY! Moveon.org is a glorified top-down email list of activists, albeit a huge 3 million activist email list -- just like direct mail political organizers before them.
To support this point, I had to share this juicy dead-on insight shared at the Politics Online conference this week, by Personal Democracy Forum founder Andrew Rasiej -- per Washington Internet Daily:
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"If any group was positioned to challenge the two major parties in Internet history, it was MoveOn.org, but strangely the group "didn't want to introduce its members to each other" as a social network, instead simply handing down marching orders, Rasiej said. MoveOn "at least symbolically" checks with its 3.5 million members on what issues to pursue, but it's still run by a handful of people who typically don't query the troops unless they already know the answer, Johnson said."
Remember it was Moveon.org that attacked Facebook, the hot social networking site, when Facebook spurned Google for Microsoft. See my previous post: "Google's poodle -- Moveon.org is leading the privacy protest against Facebook -- which spurned Google..."
Remember it was Moveon.org that colluded with Google to keep U.S. Senator Collins from running reelction ads after the outrageous General Betray-us ad debacle in the New York Times : "Google bans Senator Collin's anti-Moveon.org ads -- Google's "Free Speech" double standard".
Bottomline: Moveon.org represents itself as being for democracy and encouraging "personal democracy", but it doesn't act that way. It operates just like the hierarchical Big organizations that it claims are anti-democratic. This is just another clear example of Moveon.org's blatant hypocrisy.
