The Timothy Lee Conspiracy Deepens

by on December 13, 2006 · 8 comments

We learned back in August that I am not Timothy Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web. I am, in fact, a “shill from an ideologically oriented corporate funded think tank” who makes “fake arguments.” Now, we learn that there’s another Timothy Lee trying to horn in on the lucrative pundit-shills-named-Timothy-Lee business. This one claims to be “an Arizona native and member of the Arizona and California Bar Associations” and “director of Legal and Public Affairs for the Center for Individual Freedom in Alexandria, Va.”

It seems that the vast right-wing conspiracy has decided that one deceptively-named Timothy Lee is not enough. So they’ve been scouring the country for anyone named Timothy Lee who can string together two coherent sentences. That way, even if I get hit by a bus, they’ll be able to trot out this new Timothy Lee to fill in for me, ensuring that there will always be a right-wing Timothy Lee to comment on technology issues. The Hands Off the Internet coalition is already doing their part to raise the profile of this new and improved Timothy Lee.

Mr. Lee, incidentally, has some reasonable things to say about franchise reform and network neutrality regulation, so I encourage you to check out his article in the Tucson Citizen.

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About Tim Lee

Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.

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  • Adam Thierer

    Wow, this is getting confusing. I say we come up with a TLF contest to give you a new name. Hell, people change their names (or add hyphenated last names) all the time these days. How about Tim Blogorino. Or “Tim.com-Lee.” Or just “The Tim.”

    Better yet, just come up with your own symbol like Prince did a few years back. True to the Internet age, you could just be “@”

  • Adam Thierer

    Wow, this is getting confusing. I say we come up with a TLF contest to give you a new name. Hell, people change their names (or add hyphenated last names) all the time these days. How about Tim Blogorino. Or “Tim.com-Lee.” Or just “The Tim.”

    Better yet, just come up with your own symbol like Prince did a few years back. True to the Internet age, you could just be “@”

  • James Gattuso

    You should try Gattuso as a name. Aside from my brother and wife, and the occasional Italian soccer star, there’s very little competition.

  • James Gattuso

    You should try Gattuso as a name. Aside from my brother and wife, and the occasional Italian soccer star, there’s very little competition.

  • http://mcgath.blogspot.com Gary McGath

    You make fake arguments? Are those like dummy arguments in a function call, only smarter?

  • http://mcgath.blogspot.com Gary McGath

    You make fake arguments? Are those like dummy arguments in a function call, only smarter?

  • fishbane

    I thought this site was named the Tim Lee Front?

    I think I’ll be changing my name soon. Don’t want to miss the fun! We are all Tim Lees now.

  • fishbane

    I thought this site was named the Tim Lee Front?

    I think I’ll be changing my name soon. Don’t want to miss the fun! We are all Tim Lees now.

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