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"Net Neutrality" Coiner Tim Wu Is Running For Lt. Governor of New York

Posted by timothy on from the well-tim's-a-good-name dept.

speedplane (552872) writes Tim Wu, the popular Columbia Law Professor, author of The Master Switch, and the guy who coined the term Net Neutrality, is running for Lieutenant Governor of the great state of New York. He "has waged a shoestring anti-establishment campaign," that is well underway, and has even begun receiving attacks from the incumbent: "It has not always been smooth for Mr. Wu .... Surrogates for Mr. Cuomo have pounced on his admitted lack of 'message discipline' for comments he made comparing net neutrality to the suffragist movement (which he says were taken out of context) and sympathizing with Airbnb (which he says is 'fair game' because he has a 'wait-and-see approach' to regulating start-ups)."

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  1. NY Times Endorsed Only Wu Out of All Candidates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    An interesting development was the New York Times not endorsing any candidate for governor, but did endorse Wu for Lt. Governor over incumbent Cuomo's choice. The editors liked Wu's desire to transform the position of Lt. Governor into a public advocate, where he can proclaim the messages for fairness not only in Internet governance, but in governance in general.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/28/opinion/timothy-wu-for-lieutenant-governor.html

    Democracy Now! recently had an interview with running mates Teachout and Wu as well as gubernatorial candidate Randy Credico, whose quest against inequality includes fighting Rockefeller drug laws.

    http://www.democracynow.org/2014/9/4/new_york_candidates_zephyr_teachout_randy