<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If it's any satisfaction, at least his run for Senate did not appear to resonate with the Massachusetts public.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Shiva_Ayyadurai">https://ballotpedia.org/Shiva_Ayyadurai</a> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"> <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:55 PM John Levine <<a href="mailto:johnl@iecc.com">johnl@iecc.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">In article <<a href="mailto:97D8029A-D613-4512-9DDA-89787F8D3C11@bennett.com" target="_blank">97D8029A-D613-4512-9DDA-89787F8D3C11@bennett.com</a>> you write:<br>
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>Yeah, Dave’s claim that there was no meaningful campaign to censor Ayyadurai is disingenuous at best. Masnick himself took part in the (successful) campaign to have the Huffington Post series on<br>
>Ayyadurai’s claims removed or identified as sponsored posts in a very long Sep 2nd, 2014 post on Techdirt.<br>
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><a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140901/07280928386/huffpo-publishes-bizarre-misleading-factually-incorrect-multi-part-series-pretending-guy-invented-email-even-though-he-didnt.shtml" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140901/07280928386/huffpo-publishes-bizarre-misleading-factually-incorrect-multi-part-series-pretending-guy-invented-email-even-though-he-didnt.shtml</a><br>
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For anyone still interested, I'd suggest reading the article rather<br>
than a few out of context quotes.  <br>
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As I read it, Masnick was surprised and annoyed that Huff Po was<br>
running a series repeating Ayyadurai's nonsense, and pointed out that<br>
the authors of the series appeared to be PR flacks. <br>
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Oh, and don't miss the "rebuttal" that it now links to, which starts<br>
with a list of testimonials by famous people who share the key<br>
characteristic that none of them know anything about e-mail.<br>
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R's,<br>
John<br>
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