{"id":4404,"date":"2008-04-17T03:05:13","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T10:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/?p=4404"},"modified":"2008-04-17T03:05:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T10:05:13","slug":"shooting-the-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/shooting-the-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooting the Messenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tSilicon Valley&#8217;s newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/opinion\/ci_8955737\">an Op-Ed of mine on the net neutrality circus today:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe circus is coming to Stanford University. The network neutrality circus, that is, which makes cable companies the whipping boys for underlying flaws in the design of the Internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go to the paper to read the whole thing. It runs counter-point to a piece that was written by a PR firm employed by E-Bay&#8217;s Skype subsidiary, and reads like it. The agency buried their lede <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/opinion\/ci_8955738\">in the fourth graf:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nCable companies that bring Internet connectivity to our homes should not be the gatekeepers making decisions about which Internet sites people see. Not only is this bad for consumers, it&#8217;s bad for businesses, especially in Silicon Valley, the home of innovation and venture capital.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just the same old blah blah, gatekeeper, blah blah consumer, blah blah innovation, from two years ago when all that language was <strike>fresh<\/strike> a little less stale. If anyone believes carriers profit by preventing people from visiting web sites, drop me a note so I can lease you the Bay Bridge (I&#8217;ve already sold the Golden Gate to a company that thinks its VoIP product can thrive on unmanaged networks.)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley&#8217;s newspaper, the San Jose Mercury News, runs an Op-Ed of mine on the net neutrality circus today: The circus is coming to Stanford University. The network neutrality circus, that is, which makes cable companies the whipping boys for underlying flaws in the design of the Internet. Go to the paper to read the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/shooting-the-messenger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shooting the Messenger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-192","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}