Thursday, May 18, 2006
Google and Microsoft team up with Moveon.org
OpinionJournal - Featured Article :: The Web's Worst New Idea: "Google's recent complaint that Microsoft's new operating system was anti-competitive is a foretaste of what the battles over a "neutral" Net would look like. Yet Google and other Web site operators have jumped on the Net neutrality bandwagon lest they have to pay a fee to get a guaranteed level of service from a Verizon or other Internet service provider. They don't seem to comprehend the legal and political danger they'll face once they open the neutrality floodgates. We'd have thought Microsoft of all companies would have learned this lesson from its antitrust travails, but it too has now hired lawyers to join the Net neutrality lobby."
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Good call luv2box. I guess this is one of those "bumps" on the road of capitalism...rather than focus on the obvious business solution of building a better mousetrap (and packaging a terrific services deal!), they'd rather throw their money at lobbyists and Capitol Hill...let the people's voices be heard! Keep it free and unregulated!
Thanks folks... A very apt related recent Dilbert take on Google:
Rojo - Story: Larry, Sergey, and Moe in Dilbert
Why is Google doing this? They expect to get a free ride on the Internet highway. Are they scared of competition? If it wasnt for this said competition, Google would not have existed in the first place.
I hadn't seen the Dilbert strip--it's hilarious and so so apt!
Google is all about the bottom line. Do No Evil? I guess that only applies in the 50 States, because they sure were eager to help the Chinese government censor the Internet...Google doesn't care about the little guy. Luv2Box is exactly right, they only care about Google. NN would save them money, so they support it, simple as that.
Passing a Net Neutrality law would be the catalyst that would open the floodgates on increased government regulation of the internet. As the article mentions, the government already monitors the two questionable activities on the internet, pornography and gambling. The government is not needed to say what kinds of technology internet providers can produce. We need to see how these innovations work before we go running for help from "big brother".
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