Telcos Seek to Deceive Bloggers with Cartoon

[LiviaOlivia]

Friday, May 12, 2006
Telcos Seek to Deceive Bloggers with Cartoon
http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2006/05/telcos-seek-to-deceive-bloggers-with.html

Coming to a blog near you is a telecom-sponsored advertisement dressed up as an underground cartoon. It's the latest in the ongoing campaign by large phone companies to pull the wool over the eyes of the American public.

The cartoon is a product of a front group funded by AT&T and BellSouth. The group, Hands Off the Internet, is headed by Mike McCurry, the former Clinton Press Secretary who has been widely discredited for selling out his integrity to become the telephone industry's spokesmodel.

McCurry's group is now attempting to buy its way into the blogosphere, spending tens of thousands of dollars on a misinformation campaign against network neutrality -- the principle that keeps the Internet free and open to all.

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No where throughout this propaganda do they identify the nation’s largest telecom companies as the money behind the production. Instead, they dress up www.dontregulate.org as an authentically amateur effort -- complete with hand-drawn cartoons, a scraggly, counter-culture net-guy as protagonist and a David vs. Goliath subtext.

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[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. AT&T and BellSouth? Where have I heard those names lately...?

Bastids!

That's a lousy cartoon too, easy to see it's biased.

I've been on the net since the mid 80's, 14.4 baud modem, nothing but irc chat rooms and college web pages. We've gone from there to our current speeds without the phone co's, we don't need them to go farther.

[heartofthesiskiyou]

2. There is a new war coming and you are the enemy

Expect more and increasingly sophisticated tactics coming into play. The repubs have come to a consensus. The enemy are not the terrorists, the enemy is us the online community. They are now fully aware that we are the only ones that stand in the way of world neocon domination. Take a good look. Who's opposing them, the middle of the roaders. The Democrats. Congress. There is no entity that can stop them or even willing to oppose them. WE are THE only ones that haven't had their gray matter well lathered by the MSM bombardment. Every demographic group is essentially too scared.

The NSA program is designed to find out who is visiting what sights and to data bank this info for later use. Who and what sites are effective. Who's looking at left wing sights. Who's looking a right wing sights. What are the tactics that are to be used to oppose their activities. The whole story being spun that the NSA activities are to oppose terrorism is rubbish. WE are the enemy.

The government is building at least six major data bases that I know of and there are probably more. I'm a computer expert as I'm Network Engineer and a Systems Administrator. As an ISP, I by necessity have had to acquire significant expertise in Internet security. Most people seem to be ignoring the drum beat I have engaged in over the previous two weeks. That drum beat is to follow the equipment. By following the equipment experts can attest to congress what the NSA is up to. Building data bases. The construction of data bases doesn't begin by just start collecting information and store it. They begin with a plan of what the particular administrator is trying to accomplish. By looking at what is in the data base that is being collected an analysis can be deduced as to what the end result the administrator is up too. The hackers and computer security experts have been hip to they are up to something big for a few years now. We've been looking at weirdness in our logs like rerouting and sucking over entire contents of hard drives and other things for along time.

Everything is at stake. This issue is at least as important as anything going on. The ability to virtually shut down whole types of information and individuals has not existed before now. The entire purpose, the original vision the hackers had that created the internet, to provide access to everybody, with capability to every voice to break the strangle hold on information by MSM is at stake. Continue to ignore this at your own peril. But don't be too overly surprised when you wake up one morning and half everything on the net is gone, with what is left be every bit as effective as a google search a for Tanamin Square in china. They must be stopped. Follow the equipment.

[LiviaOlivia]

3. Well said.

Thank you.