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You are hereFreedom of SpeechRed State documents disturbing LessiGoogle "discrimination/bias" against ChristiansSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2008-04-25 11:24Anyone who considers themselves religious should read Red State's illuminating and shocking post, which documents an anti-Christian discriminatory bias by Stanford Law Professor Larry Lessig and his extremely close ally -- Google. WARNING: Christians will find the one-minute-fifty-second video that Mr. Lessig shows to a laughing Google audience, sacrilegious, offensive, and disturbing. Bringing sunlight to Professor Lessig's Orwellian Doublespeak lecture to the FCCSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2008-04-18 18:14Not only was I stunned that the FCC allowed Professor Larry Lessig to lecture for a half an hour at the FCC's en banc hearing at Stanford, I was even more stunned no one challenged his blatant misrepresentation and Orwellian "doublespeak" in support of net neutrality.
Here are three of the Orwellian "doublespeak" gems from Lessig's lecture at the FCC en banc hearing:
First, I literally could not believe my ears when Professor Lessig had the unmitigated gall to blatantly misrepresent in his lecture that if Adam Smith were to talk to the FCC that day, that Adam Smith would find a quote from his laissez-faire, free-market tome "Wealth of Nations" -- to somehow defend Professor Lessig's call for preemptive FCC regulation of the Internet. Don't miss -- FCC's McDowell: why engineering problems should be solved by engineers not bureaucratsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2008-04-18 15:46The wisdom and clarity of thought prize at the FCC's enbanc hearing at Stanford goes to --- FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell! I urge you to take a few moments and read the following excerpt from Commissioner McDowell's statement yesterday -- it really gets to the heart of the matter of what the appropriate role is for the FCC in broadband network management issues.
"...In their joint press announcement, Comcast and BitTorrent expressed the view that “these technical issues can be worked out through private business discussions without the need for government intervention.” The fatal flaws in Lessig-Scott net neutrality editorial sermonSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2008-04-17 11:01Self-appointed Information Commons messiah Larry Lessig and his Free Press acolyte Ben Scott, advance a slew of "beliefs" that they assiduously proselytize wherever they can gather an audience. FreePress' tantrum over Comcast-Pando agreement progress shows its not constructive/reasonableSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2008-04-16 18:49FreePress' antagonistic and borderline hysterical response to the legitimate consumer-friendly progress made in the Comcast-Pando agreement to lead a "P2P Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" shows FreePress' and the net neutrality movement's true colors and suggests that they are not interested in really advancing their stated goals, but in scoring political points and advancing their broader political agenda. They don't seem interested in solutions, because it appears that they are in the business creating and grandstanding about problems. Amazing that FreePress and SaveTheInternet had nothing good to say about this breakthrough agreement that finds common ground to start working towards what FreePress et al say they care about. Any reasonable person can see their are positive developments here and progress being made. See my post on this agreement highlighting its significance.
As I said in my post, no good deed goes unpunished. Seems like another observer agrees with this take: New York Times op ed on net neutrality uses the wrong analogiesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2008-04-07 13:41Successful Internet musician, Damian Kulash wrote for the New York Times, the standard pro-net neutrality op ed -- Beware the New Thing.
There are two big flaws in that logic. Google Board recommmends against applying Net Neutrality to GoogleSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2008-03-26 10:33Per Reuters, Google's board is recommending that its investors vote against a shareholder proposal from the New York City Employee Retirement System that asks Google to commit to abiding by Net Neutrality.
Bottom line Questions: House Judiciary Free Speech hearing a yawner; Christian Coalition couldn't answer simple questionsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2008-03-11 19:43The House Judiciary hearing on "Free Speech and the Internet" this afternoon was perilously close to being a non-event.
What I found most interesting and telling at the hearing is that Michelle Combs of the Christian Coalition, who testified in support of net neutrality, was completely unable to answer simple softball questions by Ranking Member Sensenbrenner. Like a proverbial "doe in headlights" she could not answer the simplest of questions for a witness; she had to ask for help from her fellow panelists, which made it obvious that she was only a symbolic figurehead on the subject and did not understand even the most basic parts of the net neutrality issue. These were the two questions and answers paraphrased: Politicizing the Internet -- why net neutrality is not about free speechSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2008-03-10 11:39
Politicizing the Internet Fabricating a Free Speech Threat to Justify Regulating the Internet and An“Information Commons” American ISPs are facilitating an unprecedented explosion of free speech. Exposing the sanctimony of net neutrality activistsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2008-03-04 13:19Enough of Net neutrality activists' hypocritical sanctimony over freedom, free speech and democracy! It is sickening. Net neutrality activists claim to support freedom, free speech, and democracy, but they really don't in practice. First, let's look at the recent activist whining from FreePress/SaveTheInternet about how the FCC network management forum at Harvard was somehow hijacked by Comcast sympathetic attendees or who these activists have derisively called "seat fillers." Pages |