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It all just seems too perfect to me. Maybe he's just throwing us a few bones to shut us up? It's just so hard for me to believe that someone who made a career
by davesque 11y ago
It all just seems too perfect to me. Maybe he's just throwing us a few bones to shut us up? It's just so hard for me to believe that someone who made a career pulling favors for those people would be able to just completely cut ties. I mean, what reason does he have to do that? The goodness of his heart? His sense of duty? Call me jaded, but those explanations make me want to laugh out loud when I think of all the billions of dollars in the mix.
- oldmanjay 11y agoThe core of the issue here is that you can never really assume you understand a person's motivations just because your prejudices have served up a narrative you like
- davesque 11y agoYou're just as equally naive to trust someone with strong industry ties just because they do you a couple of favors in a couple of years. I'll be looking at his entire tenure in that position before I decide that he's the industry's worst nightmare.
- mikeyouse 11y agoHis blog is gone now, but if people had spent 2 minutes reading his writings before he joined the FCC, they wouldn't have been surprised when he was a strong backer of Net Neutrality. The guy is imminently reasonable, made a bunch of money investing in disruptive tech companies, and appears to be an excellent bureaucrat.