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> Claims that he's beholden to Verizon are exactly as absurd as that Manchurian Candidate sketch.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171205/10255738745/days-...

He sure isn't making a very good job at not looking corrupt beyond any doubt.

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Color me unimpressed. Tom Wheeler spoke at the 2016 event and their 2015 annual convention.

[0] https://www.iicom.org/events/telecommunications-and-media-fo...

[1] http://www.iicom.org/events/item/annual-conference-2015-conf...

Tom Wheeler didn't promote the removal of net neutrality protections, an act which would benefit Verizon. This "it's just a joke" is about as funny as if Tom Wheeler had said the same thing Pai did while taking the same stance.

That's because it's indefensible, which is why you're pointing fingers to Wheeler instead of defending it.

It's almost like speaking at an International Institute of Communications forum is not correlated with shilling.

According to the itinerary for the event, then I suppose Robert L. Strayer from the State Department, Boutheina Guermazi from The World Bank, Nuala O'Connor from the Center for Democracy & Technology, Mozilla, Facebook, and Microsoft must all be corrupted/on-the-take by Verizon too?

http://www.iicom.org/events/item/tmf-washington-2017-event-p...

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