Comments on: Network neutrality poll http://madisonian.net/2006/09/19/network-neutrality-poll/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:04:07 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Frank Pasquale http://madisonian.net/2006/09/19/network-neutrality-poll/comment-page-1/#comment-79180 Frank Pasquale Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:52:36 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=804#comment-79180 What's really sad about this "poll" is that no one involved probably thought of it as in any way a scientific measure of public opinion (however relevant that may be to this extremely technical issue). It was designed to become a meme, unmoored from its laughable origins, a free-floating factoid to be strategically placed in the usual one-page think tank "backgrounder" designed for busy congressmen who, alas, have too little time to look at the footnotes. Sorry to go all Louis Lapham here, I've been too influenced by this Bewes book: http://www.amazon.com/Cynicism-Postmodernity-Timothy-Bewes/dp/1859841961/sr=8-1/qid=1158702530/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7235883-0276669?ie=UTF8&s=books What’s really sad about this “poll” is that no one involved probably thought of it as in any way a scientific measure of public opinion (however relevant that may be to this extremely technical issue). It was designed to become a meme, unmoored from its laughable origins, a free-floating factoid to be strategically placed in the usual one-page think tank “backgrounder” designed for busy congressmen who, alas, have too little time to look at the footnotes.

Sorry to go all Louis Lapham here, I’ve been too influenced by this Bewes book:
http://www.amazon.com/Cynicism-Postmodernity-Timothy-Bewes/dp/1859841961/sr=8-1/qid=1158702530/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-7235883-0276669?ie=UTF8&s=books

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