Claim: the telecoms lobby divided the African American advocates community on the COPE Act. Somehow he's connecting this to Gandy's Panoptic Sort argument, but again so quickly the argumentative chain was hard to follow. Here's a case where a simple, well designed slide presentation would have helped.
Brian's outline of the lobby's strategy:
- Isolating "radicals": illustrated with the astro-turf video from Hands Off The Internet
- Co-opting "realists"
