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Telecom Plan To Take Over the Internet Isn't Real
wiredog writes "The Telcos' Secret Anti-Net Neutrality Strategy is actually a student project. The 'No Net Brutality' campaign idea was one of the four finalists created as an assignment for a two-and-a-half week 'think tank MBA' program. The other finalists were a project promoting free speech in Venezuela, one supporting education reform in Poland, and one dealing with sales tax rates in Washington, DC. ('No Net Brutality' came in third. The Polish reform idea won.)"
Nothing to see here, move along.
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Just a distraction from the truth.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
There are a BUNCH of really interesting, truly nerdy stories in the firehouse...why does crap like this always find a way through?
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It was a kdawson story. Duh.
Seriously though, if you thought that was real, your BS detector is broken.
That it not to say that it could not have been real, but you should not have believed it without independent verification.
Go green: turn off your refrigerator.
Fake or not, it leads to a decent enough slogan which we really haven't had yet:
Support Net Neutrality - Not Net Brutality.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
To "The Center for American Progress in Never Admitting That We Made a Silly Mistake Because Everything Bad Is The Fault of Lobbyists Who Are Not Us".
I'd make one heck of business card...
Not really surprising. It IS ThinkProgress after all.
I vote for them as "Most ironically named website of all time."
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
The contest in question was *funded* by lobbyists.
Actually, the fact that I thought it was real just shows how sad and pathetic the state of affairs in our country has become.
No, it shows how gullible you and other 20-somethings are to believe whatever you read on the Web. Critical thinking is no longer in vogue, the "truth" is whatever the Slashdot Group Think and Twitter / Digg / Whatever pipe to you. Blogs have to be more accurate than "real" news sources, right?
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Really wishing I had mod points right now. Seriously, this is the truth of the matter, and it is missing in the story post. Then again, I hope this story of this hoax is a hoax of a hoax doesn't run tomorrow and generate them even more traffic.
It was something all Slashdot agreed on until the Obama administration started pushing for it.