Talk:Philip Elmer-DeWitt

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Notabality of the person[edit]

I don't know about this guy other than just him being a columnist (or writer - as he claims) on TIME and Fortune magazines. Contents of the article does not idicate his relevance, and it looks like a promotion for his work (possibly to prove that he is a relevant guy). References are also unreliable, especially when the given citations does not have a connection to the claimed statement, seriously.

--PH 0447 (talk) 07:10, 22 April 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-infamous journalism debacle[edit]

Why is there nothing on what he's arguably most notorious for, his semi-infamous inaccurate July, 3 1995 Time magazine cover story on "Cyberporn" which provided significant impetus for the passing of the Communications Decency Act of 1996, whose crucial provisions were promptly declared unconstitutional? See http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.805/articles/cda/saga.html or many further links which can easily turned up by Google searching... -- AnonMoos (talk) 16:14, 8 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Politics[edit]

Philip is also a city councilor in Greenfield, MA. 2600:6C64:617F:E203:4D86:F1A7:3A37:1BDE (talk) 11:16, 4 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]