User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/Battle for the Net: Internet Slowdown/@comment-174.63.9.161-20140911180947/@comment-96.233.88.76-20140911215700

No.. do blame the Repbublicans.

Republicans in the Senate just voted down the Democracy For All Amendment today. Oligarchy upheld indeed.

The saddest thing is how the Republican party has bamboozled so many lower and middle class people into thinking they have their interests at all.