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==History==
 
==History==
Early on, many of the supporters of Net Neutrality were [[Marxist]] [[Fellow traveller]]s.<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414483/comrades-net-neutrality-john-fund  Comrades for Net Neutrality]</ref>  Socialist activist Robert McChesney, founder of the group "Free Press", devoted himself to the cause of a government takeover<ref>[https://townhall.com/columnists/setonmotley/2017/05/01/net-neutrality-venezuela-for-the-internet-n2320690 Net Neutrality: Venezuela for the Internet]</ref> of the internet.  Generally, McChesney makes similar arguments that any other Net Neutrality supporter does in regards to fears regarding the role of corporate entities and internet subscriptions.  But in an interview in 2009 with a publication ''The Socialist Project/The Bullet'', in which he believed he was talking to a crowd more sympathetic to his true beliefs and also that his words would not be seen by anybody else, McChesney admitted to the following:
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Early on, many of the supporters of Net Neutrality were [[Marxist]] [[Fellow traveller]]s.<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/article/414483/comrades-net-neutrality-john-fund  Comrades for Net Neutrality]</ref>  Socialist activist Robert McChesney, founder of the group "Free Press," devoted himself to the cause of a government takeover<ref>[https://townhall.com/columnists/setonmotley/2017/05/01/net-neutrality-venezuela-for-the-internet-n2320690 Net Neutrality: Venezuela for the Internet]</ref> of the internet.  Generally, McChesney makes similar arguments that any other Net Neutrality supporter does in regards to fears regarding the role of corporate entities and internet subscriptions.  But in an interview in 2009 with a publication ''The Socialist Project/The Bullet'', in which he believed he was talking to a crowd more sympathetic to his true beliefs and also that his words would not be seen by anybody else, McChesney admitted to the following:
    
<blockquote>The ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.<ref>[http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/246.php Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles], An interview with Robert McChesney</ref></blockquote>
 
<blockquote>The ultimate goal is to get rid of the media capitalists in the phone and cable companies and to divest them from control.<ref>[http://www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/246.php Media Capitalism, the State and 21st Century Media Democracy Struggles], An interview with Robert McChesney</ref></blockquote>
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