With unbelievable audacity, a group of 21 individuals declared themselves “the pioneers and technologists who created and now operate the Internet” in a foolish letter to Senators and Representatives (1), and protested Obamanet repeal. The fake news media has not contested their claims (this CNBC article is an example), and even used their letter as an argument against Obamanet repeal.
These individuals, some of whom would not recognize an IP address, are like Baron Munchausen, a fictional character. Even Al Gore was more modest than them, when he said “I took the initiative in creating the Internet” (2). Curiously, Vinton Cerf, one of the few letter signers who can really be called Internet pioneers (alongside hundreds or thousands of others), was also an Al Gore’s defender.
The letter starts: “We are the pioneers and technologists who created and now operate the Internet, and some of the innovators and business people who, like many others, depend on it for our livelihood. We are writing to respectfully urge you to call on FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to cancel the December 14 vote …”
Steve Wozniak is a co-founder of Apple, but not an Internet pioneer. Mitchell Baker is a lawyer and chair of slippery Mozilla Foundation. The chief technologist of Mozilla, Brendan Eich, has been pushed out from Mozilla and started a company that has developed the Brave browser. John Borthwick, MBA, is a venture capitalist. And so on. There is more truth in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen than in the tales of Obamanet supporters.
via Climate Realism Against Alarmism
December 26, 2017 at 08:10PM
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