[173483] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joly MacFie)
Fri Jul 25 14:40:11 2014
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From: Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 14:39:30 -0400
To: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Personally, I don't get it.
To mock the Brett Glass Google obsession (PK.EFF, Susan Crawford etc) - as
I do - while casting aspersions on Bennett and the ITIF, is hypocrisy.
Astroturfing - defined as paid spoofing of grass roots support for a
position - definitely exists, and is heavily practiced by Telecom
incumbents, but Bennett isn't it. There is no way he is "grass roots".
He is a pundit, an advocate, arguably a shill, but astroturf, no.
j
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:17 PM, William Allen Simpson <
william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/22/14 12:07 PM, Paul WALL wrote:
>
>> Provided without comment:
>>
>> http://www.esquire.com/blogs/news/comcast-astroturfing-net-neutrality
>>
>> Thanks! This is nothing new for him. There's astroturf from
> him going back to '08 on NANOG.
>
> Remember when he was shilling for ITIF -- a "think tank" whose
> board was then co-chaired by conservative congress-critters and
> dominated by corporate governmental affairs (nee lobbyists)?
>
>
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