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AT&T enlists employees to oppose Net neutrality - btfc - 10-20-2009
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-10379360-266.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5
"This week AT&T's top lobbyist Jim Cicconi sent a memo to managers urging them to encourage their families and friends "to join the voices telling the FCC not to regulate the Internet."
Over the past few weeks, the battle over Net neutrality has heated up as the FCC is set to start the ball rolling on a process that will make the agency's existing open Internet principles official regulation.
AT&T has been one of the biggest opponents of the new regulation, along with Verizon Communications and cable company Comcast. On the other side of the debate are consumer advocacy groups and large Web-based technology companies, such as Google and Amazon.
The phone companies have rallied support among some congressional leaders, both Democrat and Republican, who have sent letters to the FCC opposing new regulation. And the advocacy groups and big Internet companies have done the same."
Re: AT&T enlists employees to oppose Net neutrality - decay - 10-20-2009
lobbyists are ruining America.
i'm not kidding.
Re: AT&T enlists employees to oppose Net neutrality - M A V I C - 10-20-2009
decay wrote:
lobbyists are ruining America.
i'm not kidding.
Everyone who expresses their opinion is a lobbyist. I suppose you also think corporations are ruining America too.
Re: AT&T enlists employees to oppose Net neutrality - SteveO - 10-20-2009
What decay said. I'm not kidding, either.
Re: AT&T enlists employees to oppose Net neutrality - MacArtist - 10-20-2009
I definitely think corporations are ruining America.
Re: AT&T enlists employees to oppose Net neutrality - M A V I C - 10-20-2009
MacArtist wrote:
I definitely think corporations are ruining America.
OWC is a corporation. Your local ma & pap sandwich shop is probably a corporation (and if it isn't, it should be.) Apple is a corporation. Your local Mac reseller is a corporation.
Why I bring this up is because to me I see a pattern of people who dislike something yet don't really know what it is they dislike. They use words like "lobbyist" and "corporations" without really knowing what they are or why some they dislike and some they like.
It's being stereotypical to blame lobbyists and corporations. I hear people protesting for the end of corporations. It makes me sad that people spend so much effort disliking something without really understanding it.
Re: AT&T enlists employees to oppose Net neutrality - N-OS X-tasy! - 10-21-2009
Seems to me there's only one person on this thread so far who doesn't understand what's being said.
P.S. Absolutely agree with decay.
Re: AT&T enlists employees to oppose Net neutrality - AAA - 10-21-2009
My coworkers have been offered the task to solicit dozens of signatures for a petition to send to congress. Daily counts for a target of near 100,000 are being communicated in a fever pitch. And I am a former AT&T employee myself. And my mom used to babysit the family that included one of AT&T's former CEOs.
Re: AT&T enlists employees to oppose Net neutrality - deckeda - 10-21-2009
Lobbyists don't shoot America. Lobbyists with guns shoot America. Or something to that effect.
Re: AT&T enlists employees to oppose Net neutrality - M A V I C - 10-21-2009
N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
Seems to me there's only one person on this thread so far who doesn't understand what's being said.
P.S. Absolutely agree with decay.
I'm sure there are many that can help you understand. If you'd like to discuss it, let me know.