US Broadband Policy Called "Magical Thinking"

eWeekPete writes "Is the pipe half full or half empty? Not surprisingly, the talk at the second annual Tech Policy Summit was decidedly mixed. 'The US is still the most dynamic broadband economy in the world,' said Ambassador Richard Russell, the associate director of the White House's Office on Science and Technology Policy. 'As opposed to being miles ahead, though, we're only a little ahead.' But Yale Law School's Susan Crawford called Russell's position 'magical thinking. We're not doing well at all.' She proceeded to call the White House's effort 'completely inadequate on broadband competition.'"

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Re:Nothing new here

[tjstork]

This is simply another example of the Bush administration engaging in wishful thinking. We're doing well with broadband because we say it's true. The Iraq War has been a huge success because we say it's true. The economy is strong because we say it's true. Global warming is a myth because we say it's true. Sadly the country is full of folks who do not think critically for themselves and believe what they've been told is true. Imagine what's going to be "true" tomorrow.

I say I'm doing well with broadband because I have FIOS. Bush has never said, as of late, the war is a huge success, and has always said that it would be difficult work. The economy is strong because I sold my house for more than it is worth and have a job that pays a lot more than I made when Bush was sworn in. Many of us have been proposing nuclear power to beat global warming for decades, and yet you refuse it, so I think it is reasonable to think that when various left wing leaders say that they see global warming as not so much an environmental problem as a vehicle to scare the masses into accepting a massive redistribution of wealth, then, I say yes, I think the politics of it are b.s. I mean, even Obama talks about using cap and trade CO2 money to pay for his health care proposals - this isn't a solution to an environmental problem, its a tax increase backed by a body of lies. I think there are still a lot of people that support Bush because they have thought critically, and they are better off, and we tend to view the claims of the left wing that we are being suffering or robbed as so much superstitition.