Honest Brokers

11:30 AM May 12, 2006

Trust us, yo.

Yesterday's USA Today bombshell about the National Security Agency's wholesale (and illegal) data-mining of domestic phone calls with the generous compliance of telcos forms a colorful backdrop to the latter's entreaties before Congress to scupper net neutrality.

(Bear in mind that this phone mining comes hard on the heels of the government's eyebrow-arching move to quash on national security grounds a class-action suit of the Electronic Frontier Foundation alleging that AT&T has been feeding the NSA its Internet traffic, too.)

What with this mind-boggling breach of faith, how are the telcos going to persuade of their trustworthiness to control the Internet?

Why, with a misleading netroturf anti-regulation campaign, of course! Cartoon sketches and everything!

Ah, the hell with it. Just have some henchmen do it in a smoke-filled room instead.

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