Who'd have thunk that Vin Weber, one of the great stalwarts of
the conservative movement, would sell his soul and get into bed
with MoveOn.org and other left-wing groups to regulate the
Internet?
We hear that he's taking upwards of $300,000 each from the likes
of Google, Yahoo, Amazon.com, eBay, Microsoft and others -- all of
which rarely give a dime, and then only grudingly, to Republicans
-- to shill for legislation on the Hill that would regulate the
Internet. Not only is he pressing for Internet regulation, but
Weber apparently is now supportive of knocking down child-security
filters and allowing porn to be transmitted over cell phones and
with virtually no parental controls on at-home computers.
The legislation Weber is backing would enable all of that, and
yet the Chrisitian Coalition has now apparently joined him in his
fight. Just how big a check did Reverend Falwell take from Weber,
we wonder?