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FCC Chairman On Open Wireless: Gotcha!

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Oh, man! He got me. He really did. I really, truly thought FCC Chairman Kevin Martin was taking the side of the good guys. Boy do I feel like a dope! What a cut-up this guy is.

Remember that
But, but…he said!

Frank Rose at

So what happened?

"Aware of how closely watched this proceeding has become, Martin has opened his push for rules with a controlled PR offensive," writes

"It helps that Martin has been more successful than any other Chairman I can recall in stopping leaks at the FCC — usually by transferring the offending parties to the FCC equivalent of outer Siberia as a warning to others. This has given Martin an unparalleled opportunity to control the information flow and the public debate through strategic press leaks and interviews."

Oh, that's just dirty.

Luckily, there's still good guys working on this. Free Press, the organization behind SaveTheInternet.com, launched a new initiative called

Free Press's Ben Scott explains more about this

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