New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer is impressive; he’s seemingly made his office a protectorate for consumers, he’s little afraid to go after big media and big corporations, and on top of all this, he’s internet-savvy to bout. The last is most important. Internet technologies, and the ways to exploit them, and the lazy stewardship of big businesses, have dynamics that shift often. There is now a huge divide between a nation that is evermore dependent and increasingly savvy with IT technologies and the cult of leaders who find and fire blanks towards its direction. We need more Geek Politics–it’s important. Spitzer may be one of the first of the breed.
Here’s a few things Spitzer has accomplished all within the last year:
-Spitzer goes after Fortune 500 companies that tacitely use adware networks.
-Spitzer makes Intermix Media an example by suing them for using ub3r-annoying spyware…Spitzer calls spyware “fraudulent programs [that] foul machines, undermine productivity and in many cases frustrate consumers’ efforts to remove them from their computers.“
-Spitzer tries to fix why Radio sucks going after Sony Payola. Look at Nutz’ take on this.
-Just today, Spitzer fines AOHell for making it ‘unduly difficult’ to cancel its service.
he’s fun and interesting. he does what other politicians talk about, and has more power right now than the attorney general because he actually exercises it. he may well be less powerful once he beats the pants off weld and becomes NY governor.