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Spirited Exchange Over Net Neutrality

Posted by kdawson on from the talking-past-one-another dept.

LukeCage sends us to The Register for a rabble-rousing account of a US Commerce Department official's talk at Supernova 2007. The article is headlined Bush official goes nuclear in New Neut row, and points out that the speaker, John Kneuer, is a former telecom lobbyist. To figure out what really went on in that session — whether it was a shouting match as El Reg reports — be sure to read Suw Charman's notes from the floor and Kevin Werbach's note (Werbach is the conference organizer).

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  1. You're kidding, right? by gEvil+(beta) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait. So you're telling us that the Register--that beacon of journalistic insight and integrity--is misrepresenting what happened at the event? Color me completely and utterly shocked. Why anyone bothers to read that piece-of-trash site is far beyond me...

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  2. A Bush official would *never* go "nuclear"... by ClayJar · · Score: 5, Funny

    A Bush official would *never* go "nuclear"... they would go "nucular"! :D

  3. Painful to read... by Noctrnl · · Score: 2, Funny

    Was I the only one that got a headache trying to read Suw Charman's blog? I like to think I can deal with a fairly wide variety of styles when it comes to people just posting their thoughts, but good lord. I could read essays from third graders and see less sentence fragments. It seemed scatterbrained to me, and I just didn't walk away with anything other than a migraine after reading it.

    Call me harsh or unreasonable, but it seems to me that if somebody is going to take the time to write about an issue - any issue - they should at least try to do so coherently.

  4. Re:The talk is on line by Qzukk · · Score: 2, Funny

    Kneuer makes a total idiot of himself, but remains generally calm.

    Damn, I was hoping to see a video of him dancing like a monkey and screaming "Capitalism! Capitalism! Capitalism!"

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  5. Not even CLOSE to the worst it's ever been by elrous0 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, you should have been around back in the 1850's! You think THIS is acrimonious?!?! We had Congressmen carrying pistols and knives and beating each other nearly to death on the Senate floor back in those days. Compared to THAT, politics today is a Sunday School luncheon.

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