1. Rasmussen tends to the wingnutty. 2. The question relies on the ignorance of those polled. They ask, Do you want the Internet regulated like TV and Radio?

1. Rasmussen tends to the wingnutty. 2. The question relies on the ignorance of those polled. They ask, Do you want the Internet regulated like TV and Radio? But is that even on the table? No, it isn't. So why is Rasmussen asking this? This is a question intended to bolster wingnut opposition to net neutrality, which the wingnuts are portraying as something entirely different from what it actually is. It definitely isn't anything like the regulation of broadcast TV and Radio. There will be no need to bleep or censor profanities. There will be no limit on the number of websites a single company can own in a market. There will be no regulation limiting the "strength of signal", whatever that would mean. The wingnuts are implying that "net neutrality" is the rebirth of the Fairness Doctrine, heavy-handed political censorhip of websites to create 'balance', rather than simply making carriers give equal access to all sites and services. (The rebirth of the "Fairness Doctrine" for radio and TV is another paranoiac chimera of the wingnuts that they've used to scare voters into opposing the Democrats over the last few years. Nevermind that there's no support for it.) Naturally, this GOP disinformation serves the interests of the big telecom firms, not consumers or voters. (Incidentally, if that poll had asked respondents if they supported internet censorship blocking access to obscene materials, wikileaks, atheist sites, and evolution science, Republicans would probably have been heavily in favor of government regulation of the Internet.)