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Re:Sylvie Forbin, lobbyist for Vivendi, is new head of copyr... by rayiner on Saturday July 16, 2016 @05:18PM (#12107913)
I'm not saying I told you so: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7713588.
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Re:Sylvie Forbin, lobbyist for Vivendi, is new head of copyr... by justratsinacoat on Saturday July 16, 2016 @09:55PM (#12108697)
Firstly, I'm glad you're not, as you can't! I wasn't an HN member that long ago! :P

Secondly, I'm glad you're not, because even 800 days ago when you posted that, someone brought up the extremely inconvenient fact of Wheeler's 12-year tenure at the "Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association", a lobbyist group for telcos, starting in '92. The perception that he was a lobbyist who ascended to a regulatory body seems to hold up!

...although the truth of the statement "no one could have seen that coming" is clearly disputable. :P

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Re:Sylvie Forbin, lobbyist for Vivendi, is new head of copyr... by rayiner on Saturday July 16, 2016 @10:21PM (#12108762)
Cable, cellular, now cloud: Wheeler started backing each of these industries when they were the underdog. His policies as Chairman are not a surprise.
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