They say you can't bs a bs'er, which is why i'm extra good at spotting my own kind.
Is "HandsOffPlease" Ed Whitacre from AT&T? You old prankster you! You tipped your hand when you said "my organization," that was an unfortunate slip. But that's okay, I like to pretend I'm somebody else too sometimes.
You know, like when telcos pretend to be a grassroots organization against Net Neutrality.
That was hysterical, by the way, a real best-of-class BS move. Congrats, because I'm really hard to impress.
I especially like how you create diversions by accusing the opposing side of being heavily corporation-funded fear mongers with hidden agendas that will end the Internet as we know it, and cause death and economic depression everywhere.
Bloody brilliant smear, and takes the sky-is-falling approach to a whole new level, especially when you're both pot and kettle but are able to slick-tongue yourself out of the spotlight for a minute.
But the coolest part of you skillful BS was when the telcos said they wanted to be able to create a tiered Internet toll-way system (you know, the same way cable companies gave us great choices of programming for very little money and the wireless carriers gave customers really fair rates and never gouged the customer at all -- wow, the bs is so good I almost believed myself) but then acted you like you never said that. Remember that? That was awesome.
Ooh, I almost fogot about that slick move where Congress gave the telcos $200 billion to build out the broadband infrastructure but spent it on long distance services instead. Cuz really, it's no big deal that the US is something like 15th in the world in broadband and last-mile-fiber, cuz as far as the average Joe customer knows, the speeds we have are as good as they can currently get.
So stick it to em again, they'll never know. Especially if you distract them from all that noise in the SaveTheInternet.com camp.
Really, really awesome BS. Thanks for enlightening.
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innovation freeze
The fact remains that internet regulations such as net neutrality would essentially freeze innovation.
Save the Internet has done a good job of scaring people into supporting a backwards solution to a non-existent problem whereas my organization, Hands Off the Internet, supports strengthening our internet's infrastructure readying it for tomorrow's technology.
The Register understands this: "A 'neutral' net ensures there's one slow lane for everyone; that's something the net's most distinguished engineers - including Robert Kahn - think is insane."
http://www.theregister.com/2007/03/16/packetexchange_net_futures/