Although it has not been formally announced yet, National Journal Online reports that prominent internet legal scholar and University of Michigan Law School professor Susan Crawford will Join the Obama administration as its new Special Assistant to the President for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy.
Crawford is currently a member of the Board at ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. She also sits on the Advisory Board at public interest advocacy organization Public Knowledge. Crawford founded OneWebDay, a global Earth Day for the internet that takes place every Sept. 22nd and is a champion for net neutrality. Be sure to check out her blog here.
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Crawford is not qualified for the post. She is a lawyer and lobbyist (didn't Obama pledge not to hire lobbyists?), not a technologist. Her attempts to comment on technology and tech policy are fraught with huge numbers of fundamental errors. And she is a strong advocate of stifling regulation of the Internet -- regulation that would limit consumers' choice of broadband providers, deter deployment of broadband to areas which are now unserved, raise the price of Internet service for all Americans, and harm the quality of service that users receive. We can only hope that the Administration will reconsider this appointment, which could do great harm to our country.
Crawford is not qualified for the post. She is a lawyer and lobbyist (didn't Obama pledge not to hire lobbyists?), not a technologist. Her attempts to comment on technology and tech policy are fraught with huge numbers of fundamental errors. And she is a strong advocate of stifling regulation of the Internet -- regulation that would limit consumers' choice of broadband providers, deter deployment of broadband to areas which are now unserved, raise the price of Internet service for all Americans, and harm the quality of service that users receive. We can only hope that the Administration will reconsider this appointment, which could do great harm to our country.
Another Communist intellectual idiot...........they multiply like rats.........