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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Telco Astroturfing Or Elaborate Double-Reverse
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Tue Aug 13 21:09:45 2013
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Telco Astroturfing Or Elaborate Double-Reverse Sabotage Fakeout? You Decide!
http://j.mp/1btmUVf (Techdirt)
"So, in the interest of "fairness," I thought I'd present the two
competing theories side by side, and let the readers decide which one
makes more sense. For some background, Bennett has been a long time
denier of any problems with US broadband, insisting that it's been
highly competitive and super fast and innovative for years and years.
He works for ITIF, which was among those who fought hardest against
net neutrality rules and was the "think tank" behind the original plan
that turned into SOPA. When the MPAA was desperately seeking tech
experts who would support SOPA, the only ones they turned up all had
connections to ITIF (and weren't particularly experts on technology
anyway). That gives you a hint of ITIF's standard operating
procedures. More recently, Bennett co-authored a report claiming that
US broadband was highly competitive and working wonderfully -- a
report that was discredited thoroughly and repeatedly by a variety of
experts, making it a bit of a laughing stock." - Mike Masnick
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I will, with more than a modicum of self-restraint, refrain from
substantive comment regarding this item.
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