[tptacek]

The links you've pasted here make my case for me. Canada sponsored a series of TED talks, for a pittance relative to what they send to other NGOs. Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world. This is lizard people stuff.

Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event and an easy way to get publicity. Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a shadowy extragovernmental puppetmaster.

[TeeMassive]

> The links you've pasted here make my case for me. Canada sponsored a series of TED talks

The links I've posted are not talks...

Show me where the Government of Canada has actual agreements with TED to enact, decide or orientate policy.

> Therefore: the WEF has "infiltrated" governments around the world.

My source is the head of the WEF.

> Important people show up at Davos because it's a networking event

This doesn't make sense, important people do not need networking events, the are already public figures.

> Important people have attended TED talks, too. That doesn't mean TED is a shadowy extragovernmental puppetmaster.

You're making a straw man argument, I didn't say that.

[tptacek]

If the head of the TED Talks organization claimed he had infiltrated world governments, I'd take it equivalently seriously.

[TeeMassive]

The head of TED doesn't invite government officials around the world every year to make official agreements on policy.

[tptacek]

Citation needed.

Matthew Yglesias probably has more impact on policy than the WEF does. That's not a compliment to Yglesias.

[TeeMassive]

> Matthew Yglesias probably has more impact on policy than the WEF does

Citation needed.