'Secret' telecom anti-Net neutrality plan isn't | Politics and Law - CNET News

[Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>]

Btw, I saw the video advertisement in Pennsylvania  that warns the USG wants to "take over the Internet". I was 
interviewed on Pittsburgh chan 4 and said that was super hyped and just wrong. I am opposed to the FCC move to use 
title 2 regulation but hype like this does a disservice to the our ability to have a reasoned debate. That seems to be 
the norm in DC now a days

Dave 



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> From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed () reed com>
> Date: May 16, 2010 7:16:50 AM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dfarber () me com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] 'Secret' telecom anti-Net neutrality plan isn't | Politics and Law - CNET News

> To follow up on how you  were punk'd by Declan McCullagh (who I used to think of as a bit more ethical than most Fox 
> News journalists, now I think of as less ethical), read the update at the end of the post, commenting on Declan's 
> claims:
>
> http://thinkprogress.org/2010/05/11/netneutrality-grover-afp/
>
> [As I discovered by independently poking around Atlas (the sponsor of the competition) and Sunshine Review (one of 
> the leaders of the "student" team runs this site professionally), they really run a huge network of "webturf" 
> websites, all coordinated to appear unbiased.  They claim to be "nonpartisan" - which means that they have no *party* 
> affiliation in financial terms.  But they all represent pretty extreme conservative viewpoints, as has Declan, though 
> there is no evidence he is connected to Atlas]
>
> "CNET's Declan McCullagh has posted an item critical of this post. However, McCullagh misleads his readers by 
> claiming the presentation was created only by "students" unrelated to any industry groups or lobbyists. The author 
> and administrator of the "No Net Brutality" website is Kristin McMurray, a staff Project Manager of Americans for 
> Limited Government's Sunshine Review front group. McCullagh playfully acknowledges the presenters met with the 
> lobbyist-organized "Wednesday morning meeting," but takes their word that their "three minute" presentation had no 
> influence. Of course, as this post notes, Norquist was caught yesterday parroting the same talking points from the 
> presentation, along with the other telecom industry-funded front groups at the event. As Stopthecap.com observed 
> yesterday, McMurray is using a professional PR service to track Internet discussion of her anti-net neutrality site. 
> Grassroots, indeed."



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