Trump's Maine Campaign Director Launches Anti-'Radical Tech-Left' Group to Protect Internet
The Maine director for Donald Trump's presidential campaign launched a group targeting Silicon Valley executives and the "radical tech-left," saying in a Monday news release they used their "wealth and political influence" to take control of the internet, "erode the…
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public's internet freedoms and wage war on alternative media." Founded by Christie-Lee McNally, Free Our Internet, a self-described "citizens" group, said it will support free expression and online speech, protect diverse ideas, and oppose government actions that limit internet openness and transparency. The nonprofit doesn't have any funding now, emailed spokesman Chad Wilkinson, who's also spokesman for Breitbart News Network, but it has been in discussions with other interested nonprofits and foundations, expects to have support shortly and will list financial supporters on its website. In its release and website, the group said Facebook, Google, and philanthropist and Democratic activist George Soros orchestrated a "secretive" campaign to pass FCC rules on net neutrality in 2015. Soros's firm didn't comment.