Where are the actual documents? The reasons Masnick gives in the comments are extremely unconvincing: that there's "non-newsworthy" stuff in them (ok, and?) and that he doesn't want to do to a Verizon lobbyist what the Intercept did to Reality Winner.<p>If he'd just included a link to the documents, I'd have been interested in his interpretation. But after making a point of how long the 12-page document was, and then getting only a few quotes, I'm wondering what he's "editorializing" out of them.
An oldie, but goodie:<p>"Well, it could happen, you see, if the President of the United States were to use the power of his office to help us mold public opinion and help us get that legislation."
--Arlington Hughes<p><a href="https://youtu.be/s2NNZdigSXg" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/s2NNZdigSXg</a>
Hmm. Companies doing business all over USA like federal regulations: no need for patchwork compliance. No wonder scaled-up IP packet routing companies want to prevent states and municipalites from imposing their own regulations.
Masnick took what could have been a great piece to use against telcos, and turned it into an embarrassing attempt to defend Google/Facebook at all costs. His claim that Google and Facebook know less about you than your ISP would require you to pretend that encryption and Google Analytics / Facebook's "pixel" don't exist.