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January 16th - Post



After some fruitless discussion, Denise suggested the campaign should link robocalling to the issue of net neutrality. It was topical and the issues had surprisingly a lot in common. They were both about a lack of regulation and the vague potential consequences and could be portrayed in a way that could potentially speak to both sides of politics.
 Robocalling scams meant that some people could make money without putting in any real effort through flooding enough phones with their messages, as they only needed a few people to bite to make money. Ryan agreed that of the potential downsides of the loss of enforced net neutrality was that it could allow ISPs to make more money without any real effort, reducing real competition. Besides, if ISPs were going to be true to their word and continue to treat all traffic equally, why fight so hard to remove the regulation in the first place? Why spend that money on lobbying efforts?  Although it seemed a bit like piggybacking of a different issue rather than being all about robocalling, the client was pleased enough with their progress to advance to the next stage. 
Sanjay was more interested in trying to work out how Ryan had joined Paperfelt and why he didn’t appear to be the least bit sceptical of the whole situation.  During short breaks, he began to start asking around. He also sought out the others to get their story for what got them into the company.
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This part is going to be heavily edited. In its current form, it does directly involve today's event, which relates to robocalling. This post is really just raw material to be refined. In its current state it isn't interesting, but I don't yet know which bits of this will be retained.

During this process, I get the feeling that the editing process and particularly, structural editing, will do much to make the short story more of a proper short story.

Today's event is from the New York Times and specifically, the article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/16/technology/senate-net-neutrality.html

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