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(The Hill) – Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) strongly condemned what she described as “collusion” between media reform group Free Press and members of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on net-neutrality regulations, an issue she has taken a lead role in opposing.

Her comments come a day after the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch released emails between Commissioner Michael Copps and his aides and members of Free Press.

The emails showed Free Press lobbying the aides to advocate strongly for net-neutrality policies, which Copps supports.

For instance, a Free Press aide offers to help draft an editorial by Copps to place in a newspaper. The email shows that Copps’s office declined the help with drafting but accepted the help with placing the article.

Blackburn said the emails reveal “collusion” and called for further scrutiny of Free Press by the House. “I am deeply disturbed by the revelations of collusion between the FCC and Free Press on the net-neutrality issue. The FCC has moved against the will of the people, the wisdom of Congress and the order of the courts, to nationalize our most productive marketplace,” Blackburn said.

From yesterday: Did Obama’s FCC Collude With Lefty Org ‘Free Press’ To Push Government Regulation Of The Internet?

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