Obama to Name Tom Wheeler, a Former Lobbyist, to Head FCC
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Re: Obama to Name Tom Wheeler, a Former Lobbyist, to Head FCC
#2They told me that if I voted for Mitt Romney that lobbyists would be put in charge of the internet.
Re: Obama to Name Tom Wheeler, a Former Lobbyist, to Head FCC
#3They told me that if I voted for Mitt Romney that lobbyists would be put in charge of the internet.
It doesn't matter who you vote for; lobbyists already control the Internet.
Re: Obama to Name Tom Wheeler, a Former Lobbyist, to Head FCC
#4This notion that each industry knows best how to regulate itself keeps ending us up in one disaster after another.
Re: Obama to Name Tom Wheeler, a Former Lobbyist, to Head FCC
#5Here's the story at the LA Times, which is not behind a paywall:
Obama to nominate venture capitalist Thomas Wheeler to head FCC
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-fcc-wheeler-20130501,0...
Re: Obama to Name Tom Wheeler, a Former Lobbyist, to Head FCC
#6Re: Obama to Name Tom Wheeler, a Former Lobbyist, to Head FCC
#7They told me that if I voted for Mitt Romney that lobbyists would be put in charge of the internet.
There was nothing false about that. It was your mistake for assuming that voting for Obama wouldn't also result in lobbyists being put in charge.
As long as we have only 2 parties, they will have no incentive to do anything different from one another. It's like expecting your local cable monopoly to be a better ISP because they have to compete with your local telephone monopoly for Internet subscribers.
Re: Obama to Name Tom Wheeler, a Former Lobbyist, to Head FCC
#8It's interesting what the headline chooses to mention. He was a lobbyist from 1979-1984, but he's also a venture capitalist and entrepreneur who has founded multiple telecommunications companies: "Mr. Wheeler is a managing director at Core Capital Partners, a Washington investment firm with $350 million under management. He has helped to oversee the firm’s investments in an array of start-ups and small- to mid-size technology companies, including GoMobo, Twisted Pair Solutions and Jacked. He also is a member of the board of EarthLink, an Internet service provider that competes aggressively with Verizon and AT&T." (From the NYT article).
The NYT article is a bit better: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/01/business/technology-invest...
Forbes has more info: http://www.forbes.com/profile/thomas-wheeler.
BusinessWeek has a more complete profile: http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/pe...
He has a blog/website: http://www.mobilemusings.net.
Re: Obama to Name Tom Wheeler, a Former Lobbyist, to Head FCC
#9Does being a former lobbyist make him inherently evil, though? I'm no fan of lobbying from any aspect, but it's shallow to judge his priorities off of this one piece of his career -- especially with the article highlighting his history in favor of the government regulating telecom.
Re: Obama to Name Tom Wheeler, a Former Lobbyist, to Head FCC
#10This notion that each industry knows best how to regulate itself keeps ending us up in one disaster after another.
This notion that industry needs regulating keeps ending us up in one disaster after another.
Who was it who said "when buying and selling are legislated, the first things to be bought and sold are the legislators?"