I say again, if you want to win this war, it's going to take pressure from ordinary non-techies in large numbers, and "
The government wants to control your Wi-Fi" is the approach most likely to succeed.
I'll tell you a little story. Years ago, I held a pair of conferences here in L.A. on "save the Internet" issues. One of the attendees was this quite quiet -- very thoughtful when he spoke -- man I didn't know, who sat in the back taking notes. All dressed in black. My registration data showed him as being from the D.C. area.
After one of the sessions he pulled me aside and said (pretty much in these words), "Lauren, I want to give you some free advice. You're all approaching these topics from logical, technical standpoints, and the politicians are going to steamroll over you and squash you like bugs. Either learn to play the game their way or you're wasting your time, or even worse."
After the conference, I did some research on this fellow, and learned he was an uber-powerful senior D.C. lobbyist who worked for (among other companies) one of the most powerful and intrinsically evil industries in the U.S. I felt like I had gotten advice from Darth Vader.
But he was absolutely right.
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