The Washington Post Needs to Come Clean on Net Neutrality

by Timothy Karr

A Washington Post blog post published Monday hits on one central reason for making Net Neutrality the law.

In "Protecting Free Speech in the Digital Age [1], " guest blogger Dawn Nunziato says that free speech on the Internet is too important to be subject to the whims of powerful phone and cable companies -- companies that have already demonstrated their willingness to block new ideas and innovations via the Web.

Nunziato is spot on. But a blog post doesn't go nearly far enough to right the wrong the Post’s editors committed the Monday before, when they printed a full-fledged editorial [2] against Net Neutrality without revealing to readers that the Washington Post Co. has an economic incentive to block online speech.