A new study about Internet regulation and job losses is part of a desperate strategy to spread fear and obscure the facts about Nat Neutrality, and pave the way for carrier control over online content.

Media giants are spending a fortune to convince lawmakers and regulators to dismantle consumer protections on the Internet and give industry absolute power over the most important communications medium of our time.

Big phone and cable companies are so determined to dismantle Net Neutrality that they’ve spent millions to flip Congress against you. Earlier this week, many in Congress delivered.

The lobbyist-funded teabag wing of the Republican party machinery is working in close consultation with telecom companies and organizations like the American Cable Association, AT&T, Comcast, and the US Telecom Association to stop the FCC’s planned protection of net neutrality, which was announced last week.

Having lost the insider lobbyist battle within the FCC – Chairman Genechowski announced he would move forward after a recent court case invalidated the FCC’s authority to protect net neutrality and roll out broadband access for millions of Americans by reclassifying broadband Internet service, allowing the FCC to protect the Internet – the opposition has gone reactionary. Funded by millions by big corporations, teabag front groups like Americans for Prosperity and Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform are getting involved, hurling charges of marxism, socialism, and the laundry list of laughable right-wing complaints.

The NYT Business page reports that AT&T, Caterpillar, Deere & Company and many other large corporations are complaining that the new health reform law will strip them of a large tax subsidy. But the provision is a corporate scam for looting taxpayers and raising drug prices.

The newly announced chairman of General Motors, Edward E Whitacre Jr, led AT&T and its predecessor entities as chairman and chief executive officer from 1990 to 2007. This completely encompasses the period when telecom companies illegally acquiesced to warrantless interception of Americans’ communications.