A Day Later, Proof of KW's Point

At a meeting last summer in New York, website operators—including David Karp , CEO of Yahoo’s social-media service Tumblr—pressed White House aides for heavy regulation.  Mr. Karp sat next to Mr. Obama at a fundraiser the next day and again pressed his case, according to the Journal account. Then in November, safely after the election, Mr. Obama publicly demanded that the FCC apply the old telephone rules to the Web. The FCC dutifully enacted the Obama plan on a partisan 3-2 vote.

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