One of net neutrality's biggest enemies 'retires' from AT&T amid Cohen scandal
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One of net neutrality’s biggest enemies ‘retires’ from AT&T amid Michael Cohen scandal
https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/11/17344040/at-t-michael-cohen-lawyer-lobbyist-bob-quinn
> AT&T has decided to join the growing coalition of people who regret paying President Trump’s lawyer. In a message to AT&T employees today, first obtained by CNN, AT&T President Randall Stephenson said “our company has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons these last few days and our reputation has been damaged. There is no other way to say it — AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake. [...]
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> If you’ve been following any of the net neutrality saga in recent years, you’ve probably seen Quinn’s name once or twice. As one of the telecommunications industry’s most vocal and aggressive lobbyists, he’s spent a lot of time railing against things like net neutrality and internet privacy rules. (Quinn has been defending dubious ISP bullshit since the days of AT&T blocking FaceTime over mobile internet, one of the company’s most egregious abuses.) While his title was technically “Senior Executive Vice President of External & Legislative Affairs,” he often acted as AT&T’s chief blogger, posting lengthy screeds about why internet advocates were hyperventilating and distorting the facts.
If Net Neutrality is able to be saved through investigations caused by Trump banging a porn star, I'm going to lose my shit
Drain that fucking swamp through your own incompetence
Its very rare you actually hear a big company like AT&T admit they were wrong or made a mistake.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/995076150048231424
Now why was Cohen contacting the Ford motor company for consultation? Hmmm, big think time.
If the whole house of cards comes down because Trump banged a porn star, I suspect there's gonna be a hit or two placed, because the big ISPs have spent a shitton of money over the last two decades to try and own the entire domain. Things/people under suspicion or full-on active investigation because of Trump's shenanigans, not counting Trump himself:
- AT&T's potential shenanigans involving the AT&T/TWC merger, through Cohen
- Sean Hannity's real estate holdings including many apartment buildings with eviction rates as high as 6x state average
- Cohen's taxi business, Cohen's legal practice, and literally every other thing he's done to make money in the last ten years
- Ronny Jackson's medical career at the White House
- Erik Prince
- Everyone on the Trump campaign
- Everyone on the Trump transition team
- Everyone in the Trump family who's had a hand in DC
- Half of Trump's White House advisors, past and present
- Rudy Giuliani
- Devin Nunes (no known investigations but he's such an asslicking toady something is shady as hell)
- fdsa
- fdsa
- fdsa
- fdsa
Looks like Trump really is going to drain the Swamp... just not how he expected to do so!
maybe they're people after all /s
I wonder if anyone in Trump country is even paying attention to this stuff.
ya but they got everything they wanted, so why bother putting up a fight and taking a bigger PR hit?
Pr0n saving the internet is frankly how it should end. Porn saved VHS, Porn saved DVD and Porn spearheaded streaming.
Only natural.
Not exactly, the DOJ is suing to halt their merger with TWC.
So Cohen was basically fucking useless.
Sex really does make the world go round.
Porn actually did lead to various internet innovations too, according to some post I saw on a Reddit AMA or AskReddit thread with a user who was commenting about job interviews/resume history from people who worked on porn sites. Porn sites are evidently responsible for web trends such as verified accounts, video streaming, etc.
You know, if you told me last year that porn might save net neutrality I'd be certain it had something to do with Youporn or something. The fact it's a random porn star the president boinked and tried to cover up is much more ridiculous.
In possibly more ways than you know.
Human minds are hot-wired towards the process of reproduction, more at 11
it doesn't seem like the courts will allow the doj to block the deal, its also unusual in how focused trump was on this one deal when other larger ones have been made recently. Can't have anything to do with how CNN would be involved in this deal though, that'd be ridiculous...
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