AT&T’s Chief Lobbyist, Jim Cicconi, is pissed that Andrew McLaughlin, the White House Chief Technology Officer, said this regarding China’s censorship of the internet and how companies in the USA are treating their networks:
“If it bothers you that the China government does it, it should bother you when your cable company does it.”
Jim says that Andrew’s comments are “ill-considered and inflammatory” and that:
“It is deeply disturbing when someone in a position of authority, like Mr. McLaughlin, is so intent on advancing his argument for regulation that he equates the outright censorship decisions of a communist government to the network congestion decisions of an American ISP. There is no valid comparison, and it’s frankly an affront to suggest otherwise.”
That pretty much sums up AT&T. They pay this Jim dude to pester people in Washingston all day to make sure that the law is favorable to the company’s bottom line. They’re not even ashamed to admit it, the man’s title is “Chief Lobbyist”, implying that there are many more serving under him.
How about this AT&T:
- Fire all your lobbyists and spend the salaries of those fired lobbyists on actually improving your network
- Change your business model for wireless data so that it respects the law and doesn’t impact profits too negatively
- Stop suing people who talk smack about your network
Brainstorm that shit out and get back to me later kthxbye!
[Via: Washington Post]