Yes this post was widely suspected as being a republican troll. The  
comments on slashdot help clarify this.

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On Sep 23, 2008, at 7:54 PM, Gavin Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I haven't been following this in much detail, but
>
> (a) It seems the detailed version of the plan is still linked from the
> page (in a PDF, link at the bottom). It's still available and in
> existence; it's just presented in condensed form first.
>
> (b) At first glance, I don't spot any substantive changes (and I  
> recall
> seeing a statement from the campaign that there weren't any  
> substantive
> changes).
>
> (c) It doesn't appear that copyright reform was ever really part of  
> the plan.
>
> Gavin
>
> On Mon, September 22, 2008 10:33 am, Matthias Mehldau wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Although this mailinglist is not much about daily politics, I want to
>> remark that there has been already a change - on the opinion of  
>> Obama:
>>
>> "... Strangely it seems net neutrality is no longer as important as  
>> it
>> was a few months ago, and the swaths of detail have been removed and
>> replaced with fairly vague rhetoric. Many technologists were alarmed
>> with the choice of Joe Biden before, ..." [1, slashdot]
>>
>> You'll find an easy to read diff on the changes right here:
>> http://versionista.com/diff/JAS9LMr5qU7q8BSroV8KzQ/
>>
>> It seems that he mainly lost profile in making government more
>> transparent and even the text about privacy is nearly only a fith of
>> what there was written before - and the "reform our copyright"  
>> changed
>> more or less to "protect the us copyright".
>>
>> What to do with him?
>>
>> best regards from the other side of the ocean,
>> weatherfrog
>>
>> [1] Slashdot: Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions
>> http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/09/22/0526237.shtml
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