The differing messages don’t necessarily result from a difference of opinion, but from a difference of audience, says Susan Crawford, co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.”When they’re talking to Wall Street, they say different things than when they’re talking to the press about what the FCC might like to do,” she says. “They trot out these really simple and nonsensical platitudes, like ‘regulation inevitably leads to lower investment.’ That’s just not true.”

via Would FCC Plan Harm Telecom Investment? Even Industry Opinion Is Mixed : All Tech Considered : NPR.