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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