The contributions that Moveon and its sponsor George Soros have have to Free Press! and Save the Internet are a matter of public record. Any web site that shows fundraising PACs and 501c3′s and 4s will have them, as well as the contributions from Google employees to Moveon, the money launder from Google to STI.

Media Democracy? I have no idea what that means. Net neutrality is a squabble over who has the right to sell live video streams to American consumers. It has nothing whatever to do with free speech, blogs, John Edwards, or Democracy. It’s a question of billing for IPTV immediately, and paying for Fiber to the Home in the long term.

Anyone who tells you otherwise wants to pick your pocket.

(1) Do you have evidence substantiating your claims about MoveOn.org contributions to STI, which is funded by Free Press?

(2) If one particular party aligns with a cause, and STI has become the grassroots figurehead for that cause, does that mean that STI is a partisan group? Sounds like false syllogism to me.

(3) My apologies for failing to qualify my terms: I was referring specifically to media democracy, that is, the widespread and continued availability for consumers to become producers in a vibrant and competitive media landscape. (I am not coming from a leftist position, to be clear: my intellectual leanings tend toward libertarian.)

In my experience, you don’t need to lie in order to advance good causes.

Just to be clear, MoveOn.org is part of the Save the Internet Coalition, as are the Christian Coalition and Gun Owners of America, two “right”-wing groups.

I point this out simply to encourage us to look beyond the traditional (and often blinding) partisan ideologies that limit open dialogue–the kind, apparently, that the Silicon Flatirons were having. After all, the shared outcome on which most of us can agree is better networks and better democracy, two values that need not be opposed.

Thanks for being here. We will be posting a video of the panel in question by the end of the week.

-Micah