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[ NNSquad ] Correction to "New Low ... Blame Obama" (earlier today)
Correction to "New Low ... Blame Obama" (earlier today)
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000464.html
Greetings. I'd like to make an important correction related to my entry
earlier today: "New Low for Anti-Net-Neutrality, Anti-Google Forces:
Blame Obama!" ( http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000463.html )
In that piece I took Scott Cleland to task, for what I termed his
anti-Google, anti-network-neutrality arguments, and for seeming, in one of
his recent blog postings, to suggest the potential for inappropriately
favorable handling of Google, et al. by the upcoming Obama administration.
Scott's writing style isn't always the easiest to parse, and upon additional
readings I've concluded that while he quoted other parties as impugning
Obama's administration in this manner, Cleland himself is arguing against
that particular interpretation. Judging from responses I've been getting,
many other folks reading his piece got the same incorrect initial impression
that I did, but that's not an excuse of course.
I stand by everything else in my posting regarding Cleland's views and
organizations, and the manner in which some anti-neutrality, anti-Google
forces are now attempting to suggest an inappropriate relationship between
Obama and these issues.
However, I want to be clear that Scott Cleland himself is not an adherent of
the anti-Obama viewpoint under discussion, and I apologize to Scott and the
readership for my earlier mischaracterization on this score.
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
lauren@vortex.com or lauren@pfir.org
Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800
http://www.pfir.org/lauren
Co-Founder, PFIR
- People For Internet Responsibility - http://www.pfir.org
Co-Founder, NNSquad
- Network Neutrality Squad - http://www.nnsquad.org
Founder, PRIVACY Forum - http://www.vortex.com
Member, ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy
Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com