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Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 04:59:02 +0530
Astroturfing exists on both sides of the political spectrum but as far as I can see, like Joly says, Bennett doesn't astroturf. Not that some leading proponents of net neutrality would even know a router if it bit them, so there's enough FUD to spare all over. On Saturday, July 26, 2014, Joly MacFie <joly () punkcast com> wrote:
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 <javascript:;>> 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 fromhim 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)?-- --------------------------------------------------------------- Joly MacFie 218 565 9365 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com VP (Admin) - ISOC-NY - http://isoc-ny.org -------------------------------------------------------------- -
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- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity Michael Thomas (Jul 22)
- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity William Allen Simpson (Jul 25)
- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity Joly MacFie (Jul 25)
- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jul 25)
- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity Eric Brunner-Williams (Jul 25)
- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jul 25)
- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 25)
- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity Suresh Ramasubramanian (Jul 25)
- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity Joly MacFie (Jul 25)
- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity Matthew Petach (Jul 26)
- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity Joly MacFie (Jul 27)
- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity Richard Bennett (Jul 27)
- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity Joly MacFie (Jul 27)
- Re: Richard Bennett, NANOG posting, and Integrity Richard Bennett (Jul 27)