Reply #10: I believe this poster over at Media Matters captured the essence of the motivation

[Uncle Joe]

behind the mass corporate media's slander against Al Gore, a loss of power and money to the people.

"More like saved the internet from the multi nationals..

Al Gore had the intelligence, and intellectual curiosity to expand his knowledge of this new convergence of computer science and telco networking. Lucky for all of us, it was NOT telco lobbyists who wrote the legislation back then. The giant telco's now realize their error and are trying to kill net neutrality. Anybody who perpetuates this myth "Gore lied about inventing the internet" is trying to discredit one of the few politicians not bought and paid for by corporate bribes, aka "pac donations".