All of this information could have been delivered without also delivering personal insults on the side.
Disclaimer: I work at Google, and I'm used to keeping things polite when the workforce here is attacked on the forum. So not sure why the reverse can't also be true.
Cory is a well networked, fairly thorough, informed blogger. He participates in all sorts of panels on topics of regulation, listens to a wide amount of voices. His views typically reflect & meet with a wide variety of other expert opinions.
It's really unfortunate that such easy, cheap character assassination is being done against someone who has spoken so well, with such unvarnished genuine interest & care for what technology can be in this world.