So who is TechNet? It's not really fair to cherry-pick from their members when writing a story like this. So let's take a look:<p><a href="http://www.technet.org/leaders/member-companies/" rel="nofollow">http://www.technet.org/leaders/member-companies/</a><p>A headline "Tech group representing AT&T, Palantir backs CISPA" isn't good copy. But that could have been the headline. The "Executive Council" (which seems to be the part of the organization that draws the focus on Google and Yahoo) also contains people from Oracle, Microsoft, and VeriSign. And one thing that council doesn't do is sign off on every letter the group sends out (or, probably, every point in the policy platform it espouses).<p>I <i>doubt</i> without knowing exactly that Google's official position is anti-CISPA and that this group doesn't speak for them because they don't actually control what it says. But I've been surprised in the past.<p>Perhaps, though, people should read this and think "hey, Google ought to put some pressure on the lobbying groups they participate in not to be stupid/evil/whatever." And perhaps if a few Google executives express that they're upset that their names were used in conjunction with something they don't support, they can rein in groups that want to claim the mantle of "the tech industry".