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Robb
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April 8th, @07:47PM
| reply to SuperWISP
Re: Life has delicious ironies...
Yeah, because a war on ISPs makes so much sense. Don't you think that, if I were in a war on ISPs (or Comcast in particular), that I would have kept my mouth shut about Colorado.edu's errant findings?
I'm not playing this very politically wise -- because I'm not a politician. That's why this was a "delicious irony." Politicians would never have let that happen. It is so not because they're dishonest, but because they're on a mission to get or prevent a certain policy.
You, Brett, clearly are a politician. I'm okay with that. A lot of your life has been involved in local, state, and even some national issues.
When I posted the original report, nobody really could know if the claims were exaggerated or bogus. So I took steps to, at the very least, encourage others to test my claims and either validate or invalidate them. My findings were made under my real name -- my own reputation was offered. They were made in a manner such that any competent person (such as yourself and other readers here) could reproduce them, provided that they had access to a Comcast account. And finally, because they eventually were reproduced and validated by both the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Associated Press.
Thank you for trying to discredit me. I really appreciate that, Brett.
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Robb Topolski -= funchords.com =- Hillsboro, Oregon
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SuperWISP
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April 8th, @09:59PM
| said by funchords  :Yeah, because a war on ISPs makes so much sense. Don't you think that, if I were in a war on ISPs (or Comcast in particular), that I would have kept my mouth shut about Colorado.edu's errant findings?
They don't say what role you played, Robb. Did you actually debunk what they were doing? Or did you egg them on?
said by funchords :I'm not playing this very politically wise -- because I'm not a politician. That's why this was a "delicious irony." Politicians would never have let that happen. It is so not because they're dishonest, but because they're on a mission to get or prevent a certain policy. You, Brett, clearly are a politician. I'm okay with that. A lot of your life has been involved in local, state, and even some national issues. Nonsense. I despise politics and only engage in them as a matter of self defense. You, on the other hand, seem to be trying to stretch the 15 minutes of fame you achieved for pointing out what many already knew: that Comcast was using Sandvine appliances, which inject RST packets to manage traffic. And you're doing that not only by getting political but by participating in Lauren Weinstein's "Network Vigilante Squad." You and others continue to spread FUD and advocate policies that would destroy small and independent ISPs -- the only alternative to the cable companies and telcos. You deserve to be discredited, because you deserved no credit for your malicious activities in the first place. | |
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