Ajit Pai Lies (Again) To Congress With Claim Net Neutrality Killed Broadband Investment
Why should anyone be surprised ? For some positions, the ability and willingness to lie tothe Congress is not merely a merit, but a job requirement, cf James Robert Clapper's famous lie to the Congress in his position as Director of National Intelligence (head of the NSA)....
... there's little doubt at this point that the Russians were behind the hack and leak of the documents ...
Any evidence for that statement, Mike, or is it simply what the DNC wants you to believe ? Seems to me that there's an awful lot of whinging going on in the United States these days - if elections don't go as planned, it's the fault of those dastardly Russians ; if the US suffers from a trade imbalance, it's the fault of those equally dastardly Chinese. The US never seems to be responsible for its own failures....
made some fatal mistakes, among them his authorisation on 3 July 1979 (nota bene, more than five months prior to the USSR's intervention at the request of the then Afghan government), of aid to anti-government Pashtun tribesmen and their Salafist allies from places like Saudi Arabia. But after leaving office, he has revealed himself to have an unusually trustworthy moral compass. No wonder the corporate media, both in the US and here in Europe, so seldom report on his activities....
?Former Stockholm chief district prosecutor Sven-Erik Alhem ...? Mike, the above should be corrected to read ?Former Malm? chief district prosecutor Sven-Erik Alhem ...? In a case like this one, with extremely odd manoeuvres by many parties, not least the Swedish judicial establishment, it is important to see that factual mistakes don't smuggle themselves into one's presentation....
and Mme Gallo are merely attempting to show us citizens of the member states of the EU what the distinction between a ?democracy? and a ?plutocracy? is in practice....
would be an immense benefit to researchers. For that reason it is likely to be banned by the US Congress and its proposers thretened with a one-way trip to Guant?namo....
everybody knows that we Swedes own the norrsken. Why our (unofficial) national song refers to ?Din himmel? (Your sky), which for all unbiased observers should suffice to clinch the argument. Tourists are, of course, welcome to observe the phenomenon, but woe betide them if any pieces of the Lights are discovered on them when they pass through check-in at the aeroport on the way home !...
?I'd be interested to see if anyone can explain how a system that allows a company like Microsoft to set up a licensing business on someone else's products without any proven legal basis other than the implied threat that they might sue, is a functioning system?? Seems to function for Microsoft, does it not ? The question is not whether a system functions, but for whom. Pecuniam non olet....
Ah yes, Mr Barnes, it is unions which have forced - presumably after threatening them with a fate worse than death - the CEOs and board chairmen of US corporations to send ?American jobs? to countries in which wages are lower. And of course it is union leaders, not corporate executives, who receive multi-million bonuses when wages and workforces are cut. Any further absurdities which you'd care to peddle on this thread ?...
Well, Mr Geigner, given that the proportion of union membership among the employed in the United States is lower than that in any comparable country, you must be living in an economic and social paradise in which waste and corruption are so good as unknown. Congratulations ! That underpaid lecturers - the PhD proletariat - might want to organise to protect their interests and have every right to do so is, of course, patently absurd, and can only be supported by people like us in Europe who don't get it....
Nothing odd here, Mike ; merely yet another attempt to extend US jurisdiction beyond the boundaries of the physical United States - now to the Chinese spirit world. Since the Chinese government may well regard this region as part of its own territory or, at the very least, a core interest, the Pentagon will of course have to beef up its bloated budget by a couple of extra thousand million USD (which the US economy can well afford) in order to meet the potential threat to its full-spectrum dominance....
?What kind of country allows such a ridiculous suppression of basic rights??
A country whose leadership is, along with counterparts in other lands, in the process of bombing people in other lands in accordance with a ?responsibility to protect? them. ?Difficile est saturam non scribere....?
Wow, Mike, I wasn't aware of your diplomatic talents ! ?Under the sway of?, indeed ! ?Bought and sold by? would be a more accurate description - and that goes in even higher degree for the US Congress than for the administration. Thus, I fear that your conclusions are entirely justified : ?... I can't imagine they'll be open to looking at the actual research on the issue or tackling the real problems of the patent system?....
Henri
which otherwise sums up the situation pretty accurately :
1) the name of the ISP in question is Bahnhof
2) Contrary to what copyright collide (from which Mike took this information) reports, Bahnhof is not going to ?automatically encrypt all traffic on their network via a VPN?, but rather is going to charge customers an additional 40SEK - approximately 7USD, depending upon currency fluctuations - monthly for this service, dubbed ?anonine? (http://bredband.bahnhof.se/tjanster/anonine).
Like Mike, I hope more providers jump on the bandwagon !...
Henri
of the US State Department would be advised to begin his or her research with a dip into Alan Stuart Franken's book, ?Lies and the lying liars that tell them?, just for background colour....
Henri
that so many of our elected officials, no matter what their political party, seem to have fallen for the same fallacy ...? Unfortunate, yes, surprising, no. Or, as Upton Beall Sinclair put it ?It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it !? ?Salary? here should be understood to include campaign contributions and other bribes....
Henri
that publication of this list - and updates, as other would-be internet censors come to the fore - has the desired effect. All the talk from the US State Department and Google - to name just a few - on their dedication to a free exchange of information and their castigation of, e g, China for censoring sites that government dislikes, while ignoring the ever increasing tendencies to censorship at home. The only effective means of countering these restrictions on basic freedoms is to hit their sponsors where it hurts - in their wallets. Boycott these firms - and tell your friends to do the same !...
Henri
Lying to the US Congress
Why should anyone be surprised ? For some positions, the ability and willingness to lie tothe Congress is not merely a merit, but a job requirement, cf James Robert Clapper's famous lie to the Congress in his position as Director of National Intelligence (head of the NSA)....
Henri
DNC lawsuit
Any evidence for that statement, Mike, or is it simply what the DNC wants you to believe ? Seems to me that there's an awful lot of whinging going on in the United States these days - if elections don't go as planned, it's the fault of those dastardly Russians ; if the US suffers from a trade imbalance, it's the fault of those equally dastardly Chinese. The US never seems to be responsible for its own failures....
Henri
As US president, James Earl Carter
made some fatal mistakes, among them his authorisation on 3 July 1979 (nota bene, more than five months prior to the USSR's intervention at the request of the then Afghan government), of aid to anti-government Pashtun tribesmen and their Salafist allies from places like Saudi Arabia. But after leaving office, he has revealed himself to have an unusually trustworthy moral compass. No wonder the corporate media, both in the US and here in Europe, so seldom report on his activities....
Henri
Doesn't this sort of organised stupidy
on the part of Homeland (In)Security indicate that the whole convoluted system is on the brink of destruction ? Or am I too optimistic ?...
Henri
Correction
?Former Stockholm chief district prosecutor Sven-Erik Alhem ...? Mike, the above should be corrected to read ?Former Malm? chief district prosecutor Sven-Erik Alhem ...? In a case like this one, with extremely odd manoeuvres by many parties, not least the Swedish judicial establishment, it is important to see that factual mistakes don't smuggle themselves into one's presentation....
Henri
De heer De Gucht
and Mme Gallo are merely attempting to show us citizens of the member states of the EU what the distinction between a ?democracy? and a ?plutocracy? is in practice....
Henri
There's no doubt but what this project - or something like it -
would be an immense benefit to researchers. For that reason it is likely to be banned by the US Congress and its proposers thretened with a one-way trip to Guant?namo....
Henri
There's no need for the Finns or the Norwegians to get all hot and bothered ;
everybody knows that we Swedes own the norrsken. Why our (unofficial) national song refers to ?Din himmel? (Your sky), which for all unbiased observers should suffice to clinch the argument. Tourists are, of course, welcome to observe the phenomenon, but woe betide them if any pieces of the Lights are discovered on them when they pass through check-in at the aeroport on the way home !...
Henri
Delicious irony,
that - a US diplomat complaining about China's great firewall ! Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi, I presume....
Henri
Functioning system ?
?I'd be interested to see if anyone can explain how a system that allows a company like Microsoft to set up a licensing business on someone else's products without any proven legal basis other than the implied threat that they might sue, is a functioning system?? Seems to function for Microsoft, does it not ? The question is not whether a system functions, but for whom. Pecuniam non olet....
Henri
Re: Ah, unions...
Ah yes, Mr Barnes, it is unions which have forced - presumably after threatening them with a fate worse than death - the CEOs and board chairmen of US corporations to send ?American jobs? to countries in which wages are lower. And of course it is union leaders, not corporate executives, who receive multi-million bonuses when wages and workforces are cut. Any further absurdities which you'd care to peddle on this thread ?...
Henri
Those dastardly unions
Well, Mr Geigner, given that the proportion of union membership among the employed in the United States is lower than that in any comparable country, you must be living in an economic and social paradise in which waste and corruption are so good as unknown. Congratulations ! That underpaid lecturers - the PhD proletariat - might want to organise to protect their interests and have every right to do so is, of course, patently absurd, and can only be supported by people like us in Europe who don't get it....
Henri
Dead Chinese don't infringe
Nothing odd here, Mike ; merely yet another attempt to extend US jurisdiction beyond the boundaries of the physical United States - now to the Chinese spirit world. Since the Chinese government may well regard this region as part of its own territory or, at the very least, a core interest, the Pentagon will of course have to beef up its bloated budget by a couple of extra thousand million USD (which the US economy can well afford) in order to meet the potential threat to its full-spectrum dominance....
Henri
?What kind of country allows such a ridiculous suppression of basic rights??
A country whose leadership is, along with counterparts in other lands, in the process of bombing people in other lands in accordance with a ?responsibility to protect? them. ?Difficile est saturam non scribere....?
Henri
?... it's appeared that the administration is under the sway of lobbyist?
Wow, Mike, I wasn't aware of your diplomatic talents ! ?Under the sway of?, indeed ! ?Bought and sold by? would be a more accurate description - and that goes in even higher degree for the US Congress than for the administration. Thus, I fear that your conclusions are entirely justified : ?... I can't imagine they'll be open to looking at the actual research on the issue or tackling the real problems of the patent system?.... Henri
Two caveats to this article,
which otherwise sums up the situation pretty accurately : 1) the name of the ISP in question is Bahnhof 2) Contrary to what copyright collide (from which Mike took this information) reports, Bahnhof is not going to ?automatically encrypt all traffic on their network via a VPN?, but rather is going to charge customers an additional 40SEK - approximately 7USD, depending upon currency fluctuations - monthly for this service, dubbed ?anonine? (http://bredband.bahnhof.se/tjanster/anonine). Like Mike, I hope more providers jump on the bandwagon !... Henri
It would seem that anyone interested in the (recent ?) history
of the US State Department would be advised to begin his or her research with a dip into Alan Stuart Franken's book, ?Lies and the lying liars that tell them?, just for background colour.... Henri
Thanks for this well-written article, Mike -
I very much look forward to seeing the video !... Henri
?It's really quite unfortunate
that so many of our elected officials, no matter what their political party, seem to have fallen for the same fallacy ...? Unfortunate, yes, surprising, no. Or, as Upton Beall Sinclair put it ?It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it !? ?Salary? here should be understood to include campaign contributions and other bribes.... Henri
I fervently hope
that publication of this list - and updates, as other would-be internet censors come to the fore - has the desired effect. All the talk from the US State Department and Google - to name just a few - on their dedication to a free exchange of information and their castigation of, e g, China for censoring sites that government dislikes, while ignoring the ever increasing tendencies to censorship at home. The only effective means of countering these restrictions on basic freedoms is to hit their sponsors where it hurts - in their wallets. Boycott these firms - and tell your friends to do the same !... Henri