Lobbyist Sites

Over on his site BuzzMachine, Jeff Jarvis finds a couple of interesting sites that lobbyists create to target US policy makers. Must be some inspiration here:

I’m in Washington and so I’m seeing different commercials here: spin aimed at a few hundred legislators and regulators. And boy, oh boy, are the telcos spinning on net neutrality.

I saw one commercial urging a vote against neutrality ending with this punchline: “They call it net neutrality. We call it sticking it to the consumer.” This from the folks who know all about sticking it to the consumer: phone companies (and their friends). Here’s their website.

Later, I saw another commercial arguing that the current legislation embodies Michael Powell’s four freedoms for the internet and so that’s plenty and anything more would be dreaded government regulation. Their site is here.

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