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CNet has an article that made me chuckle today. Apparently NebuAd CEO Robert Dykes whose business has been mentioned on this very blog a few times, appeared before Congress and took quite the business model beating. Lawmakers found the “opt-out” policy “contemptible”, “flatly illegal” and one went as far as to say the opt-out practice “goes against everything the country’s been founded on.”

…under questioning from Markey, Dykes refused to answer whether he thought an opt-in standard should be applied. “I really must protest…I think you’re forcing me into a ‘Have you stopped beating your wife recently?’,” he said. (Markey replied, to laughter: “No, no, no, it’s ‘Have you stopped beating the consumer?’ is the question.”)