If you look deeply enough, you can find common ground with the devil.
Earlier this week, members of the Christian Coalition of America (CCA) and The National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) testified before Congress in favor of net neutrality. (Source)
Net neutrality is the idea that the Internet should be free and open. Broadband providers should not speed up or slow down a connection to a web site based on its content or its owner’s ability to pay for faster or priority access. No site is given priority over another. Net neutrality results in a “democratic” web, where surfers have equal access to everything, including junk. From Save the Internet:
The nation’s largest telephone and cable companies — including AT&T, Verizon, Comcast and Time Warner — want to be Internet gatekeepers, deciding which Web sites go fast or slow and which won’t load at all.
They want to tax content providers to guarantee speedy delivery of their data. They want to discriminate in favor of their own search engines, Internet phone services, and streaming video — while slowing down or blocking their competitors.
These companies have a new vision for the Internet. Instead of an even playing field, they want to reserve express lanes for their own content and services — or those from big corporations that can afford the steep tolls — and leave the rest of us on a winding dirt road.
The NARAL has already been subjected to censorship, and the CCA got involved as a pre-emptive move. If it can happen to the NARAL, it definitely can happen to the CCA.
I may loudly proclaim I have nothing in common with people who think women have the right to have their babies murdered in the womb, but I do. Censoring one group will only lead to censoring the other.
Three years ago, liberal and conservative bloggers stood together against the Federal Election Commission, which sought to regulate bloggers under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. Because I believe the free-flow of information is crucial in a society that wants to remain free, I will defend someone’s right to express his opinions, even if those opinions turn my stomach. 
