Internet Czar Susan Crawford’s ties to Acorn- another rotten nut

Freedom News- radio report at 1 pm est- internet czar exposed- iran election updates http://bit.ly/4t4R6Y #tcot #tlot #iranelection #czarInternet Czar- Susan Crawford has direct ties to Acorn through her OneWebNow project, which lists Acorn as one of its “participating organizations”  Crawford, a net neutrality advocate (Socialist redistribution of broadband and govt control in the guise of ‘openness), also has a board member, Mitchell Kapor, who is an Acorn apologist:

Here is what he wrote in defense of Acorn just before the election (He is one of the board members of OneWebNow)

Weighing in on ACORN

October 23rd, 2008  |  by Cedric  |  Published in Voting Access

Okay, I should’ve known this was coming when community organizers were maligned at the RNC convention.  I write this post with a nonpartisan spirit, knowing that increased voter registration and participation benefits and strengthens our democracy, as do efforts to root out voter suppression. But it angers and sickens me that a well-established and well-respected group like ACORN can be put in the line of fire for following the rules – yes, orgs doing voter registration drives must turn in ALL of the reg forms (details vary from state to state), even if Mickey Mouse is listed as the potential voter.

Fortunately, ACORN is no shrinking violet, and neither are its allies. People for the American Way ran this full page ad in the New York Times.  In this ugly campaign, we must continue to expose injustice and the real frauds – those who work to minimize and deny access to voting!

Participating Organizations

The following organizations are involved in organizing OneWebDay events. If your organization is involved, and you want to be listed, contact us.

·                     ACORN

·                     Access Now SF

·                     Alliance for Community Media

·                     App-Rising.com

·                     Berkman Center for Internet & Society

·                     BroadbandCensus.com

·                     Center for Democracy & Technology

·                     Center for Social Media at American University

·                     Collabforge

·                     Community Technology Network

·                     Creative Commons

·                     Echo Ditto

·                     Electronic Frontier Foundation

·                     FirstMile.Us

·                     Free Press

·                     Future of Music Coalition

·                     Google

·                     Imagining the Internet at Elon University

·                     Internet Society

·                     Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL)

·                     Level Playing Field Institute

·                     Media Alliance

·                     The Media and Democracy Coalition

·                     Mozilla: Mozilla Service Week

·                     The National Hispanic Media Coalition

·                     NetSquared

·                     Nten.org

·                     NYCwireless

·                     One Economy/ Digital Connectors

·                     Open Technology Initiative at the New America Foundation

·                     Reclaim the Media

·                     Rainbow PUSH Coalition

·                     Reliatech

·                     San Francisco Education Fund

·                     San Francisco Network Ministries

·                     Self-Help for the Elderly

·                     ShinyDoor

·                     St. Anthony Foundation/ Tenderloin Tech Center

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