Comments on: Network Management and the Open Internet http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/11/network-management-and-the-open-internet/ On the theory and practice of networking Mon, 23 Aug 2010 08:33:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richard Bennett http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/11/network-management-and-the-open-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-428993 Richard Bennett Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:05:33 +0000 http://broadbandpolitics.com/?p=5780#comment-428993 You'll make a difference alright, no doubt about that. You’ll make a difference alright, no doubt about that.

]]> By: Brett Glass http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/11/network-management-and-the-open-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-428992 Brett Glass Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:57:42 +0000 http://broadbandpolitics.com/?p=5780#comment-428992 Sorry, Richard, but I see no reason to accept your binary choice (which is a lose/lose; I lose either my voice or my integrity). This is a country of, by, and for the people. It is not of, by, or for corporations or greedy lawyers or lobbyists. I'm going to come to DC, but not as a lobbyist. I will come as a citizen, and I will make a difference. Sorry, Richard, but I see no reason to accept your binary choice (which is a lose/lose; I lose either my voice or my integrity).

This is a country of, by, and for the people. It is not of, by, or for corporations or greedy lawyers or lobbyists.

I’m going to come to DC, but not as a lobbyist. I will come as a citizen, and I will make a difference.

]]> By: Richard Bennett http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/11/network-management-and-the-open-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-428991 Richard Bennett Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:55:05 +0000 http://broadbandpolitics.com/?p=5780#comment-428991 Naw, that's whining, especially that shot about "a lobbying luncheon." You need to make a choice, Brett: you can come inside the Beltway and engage in respectful dialog, or you can stay out there in Rogue Country being Mr. Maverick with the Scruffy Knuckles. If you commit to the latter course, these Elite Lobbyist Mainstream Insider gap-fests will no longer be of any interest to you. Naw, that’s whining, especially that shot about “a lobbying luncheon.”

You need to make a choice, Brett: you can come inside the Beltway and engage in respectful dialog, or you can stay out there in Rogue Country being Mr. Maverick with the Scruffy Knuckles.

If you commit to the latter course, these Elite Lobbyist Mainstream Insider gap-fests will no longer be of any interest to you.

]]> By: Brett Glass http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/11/network-management-and-the-open-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-428990 Brett Glass Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:47:01 +0000 http://broadbandpolitics.com/?p=5780#comment-428990 Well, because I am not in the business of lobbying Congress (I actually engage in productive work), I do not have the foggiest idea how to organize a lobbying luncheon in a Congressional office building. And I shouldn't need to. Government should, as a matter of principle, listen to the people -- those of us who are out there busting our knuckles to improve this country -- and take anything they hear from the professional lobbyists with a ton or so of salt. And, no, Richard, that's not "whining." It's basic ethics. Well, because I am not in the business of lobbying Congress (I actually engage in productive work), I do not have the foggiest idea how to organize a lobbying luncheon in a Congressional office building. And I shouldn’t need to. Government should, as a matter of principle, listen to the people — those of us who are out there busting our knuckles to improve this country — and take anything they hear from the professional lobbyists with a ton or so of salt.

And, no, Richard, that’s not “whining.” It’s basic ethics.

]]> By: Richard Bennett http://broadbandpolitics.com/2009/11/network-management-and-the-open-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-428989 Richard Bennett Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:15:56 +0000 http://broadbandpolitics.com/?p=5780#comment-428989 After a panel, I always think of things that would have been nice to say, it goes with the territory. I organized the panel at the Cannon Building myself (not this one, which was professionally done,) so I'd advise you to organize your own if you think a different group of speakers would be more interesting. It's a free country, after all, and doing beats whining every time. After a panel, I always think of things that would have been nice to say, it goes with the territory.

I organized the panel at the Cannon Building myself (not this one, which was professionally done,) so I’d advise you to organize your own if you think a different group of speakers would be more interesting. It’s a free country, after all, and doing beats whining every time.

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