Scott Andrew

Posted January 30, 2008.

Everybody pile on the rich, clueless guy

So U2 manager Paul McGuinness wants to hold ISPs accountable for policing the content on their networks. He also loves France's plan to auto-disconnect P2P users and thinks more ISPs should be like Comcast and throttle the bandwidth use of Bittorrent-using hippies.

I have to say I felt pretty bad for Paul as I read his speech. I was all like: oh. OH. Paul, dude, you're not really gonna say what I think you -- oh, I guess you are. Wha? No. NO. STOP. Digg is gonna have your head on a pike, you know that, right? Oh geez, that's...that's just -- look, I gotta go.

I haven't looked, but I bet certain threads at Slashdot and Metafilter are burning right now.