The Washing Times posted a "news" article:
, titled "CLELAND: E-totalitarianism at Google". What follows is a blatant, over the top smear campaign orchestrated by Microsoft. How do I know Microsoft is behind this? I did something that the editors of the Washington Times apprently never do -- I checked the credentials of the author.
Scott Cleland:
... which explains more about Microsoft than Cleland smears about Google.
In a similar vein, is this interesting information about another agent of evil trying to persuade a journalist to appear as an author of another Google hit piece: http://pastebin.com/zaeTeJeJ:
Besides the obvious question of how someone can "author" an article they didn't write, the concepts of truth and ethics are totally lost in the request. In response Christopher Soghoian asks "Who is paying for this? (not paying me, but paying you)" The reply he gets is:
Soghoian rejects the offer as unethical. Who is John Mercurio? A journalist who apparently lost his real journalism job and went over to the dark side as a gun for hire. He's not alone. Apparently there are a lot of "former top journalists" devoting their time to spinning faux truth out of thin air.
By Scott Cleland The Washington Times 7:34 p.m., Monday, May 9, 2011
Scott Cleland:
In 2009, Cleland "also signed on as a hired gun for Microsoft," reported National Journal. Some have questioned whether Cleland's being "a frequent critic of Google" is encouraged by his corporate backers. [3]
In 2008, Cleland released a controversial report "alleging that Google 'is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth,' the company's share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use 'is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost.'" Not surprisingly, Google disputed the report, but independent voices like Free Press' Tim Karr also faulted what he called Cleland's "payola punditry."
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Scott Cleland served President George H.W. Bush as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for telecom trade matters, and served as a Senior Policy Advisor for Legislative Affairs to then Secretary of State James A. Baker III. In addition, he has served as Director of Legislative Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury and as a Budget Examiner for OMB in the U.S. Executive Office of the President.
Cleland has a Masters of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Political Science from Kalamazoo College.
Cleland is currently a Member of the United States Department of State, Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy
In 2008, Cleland released a controversial report "alleging that Google 'is by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth,' the company's share of bandwidth usage is rising rapidly, and its bandwidth use 'is orders of magnitude greater than its payment for its cost.'" Not surprisingly, Google disputed the report, but independent voices like Free Press' Tim Karr also faulted what he called Cleland's "payola punditry."
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Scott Cleland served President George H.W. Bush as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for telecom trade matters, and served as a Senior Policy Advisor for Legislative Affairs to then Secretary of State James A. Baker III. In addition, he has served as Director of Legislative Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Treasury and as a Budget Examiner for OMB in the U.S. Executive Office of the President.
Cleland has a Masters of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Political Science from Kalamazoo College.
Cleland is currently a Member of the United States Department of State, Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy
In a similar vein, is this interesting information about another agent of evil trying to persuade a journalist to appear as an author of another Google hit piece: http://pastebin.com/zaeTeJeJ:
Mr. Soghoian,
I wanted to gauge your interest in authoring an op-ed this week for a top-tier media outlet on an important issue that I know you’re following closely.
The topic: Google’s sweeping violations of user privacy. Google, as you know, has a well-known history of infringing on the privacy rights of America’s Internet users.
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I wanted to gauge your interest in authoring an op-ed this week for a top-tier media outlet on an important issue that I know you’re following closely.
The topic: Google’s sweeping violations of user privacy. Google, as you know, has a well-known history of infringing on the privacy rights of America’s Internet users.
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Thanks for the prompt reply. I’m afraid I can’t disclose my client yet. But all the information included in this email is publicly available. Any interest in pursuing this?
There was no UPS attacked. He turned it back on and within a minute it was displaying on the screen what was there before, with the cursor setting in the correct text box on a partially entered record. I completed the form and saved it. The OS/database/devtool/desktop became the core of a peripheral card for the Apple and IBM computers called "Savvy". My business partner and I bought a 12 state marketing rights for it. It was phenomenal. It remains the easiest to use AI device I have ever seen. In 9 months I sold about 1,000 of the cards at $1k each. Costs were about $100 each. My share of the profits during those 9 months were about $300,000 which would be equivalent to about $2 to $3 million today. Savvy never took hold for reasons that had nothing to do with technology. But, that is a story for another time.
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