It appears that when AT&T isn’t busy looking out for your interests by accidently doling out the email addresses of 114,000 of its customers it is safeguarding our interests as a “neutral, expert” along with Comcast, Google, Intel, Microsoft and Verizon. Despite the fact that the new group, called Technical Advisory Group (TAG), is headed by Federal Communications Commission CTO Dale Hatfield, I just can’t quite put my finger on my doubts on why such a group can remain neutral. Oh yes, that’s it…
That’s because, one member of the group that is busy trying to “minimize disputes over policy questions” is the same broadband internet provider that said it would voluntarily comply with an FCC order to lift its restrictions on customer’s internet use and then turned around and sued the FCC to get the ruling reversed. Could it be that I seriously doubt the ability any corporations to represent my interests whose intent is also to bleed internet users dry until they lay on the sidewalk in a heap of shriveled broken corpses?