[IP] WILL GOOGLE, MICROSOFT, YAHOO AND THE OTHERS REALLY FIGHT FOR NET NEUTRALITY?
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From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: April 20, 2006 8:46:27 AM EDT
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Subject: [Dewayne-Net] WILL GOOGLE, MICROSOFT, YAHOO AND THE OTHERS
REALLY FIGHT FOR NET NEUTRALITY?
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WILL GOOGLE, MICROSOFT, YAHOO AND THE OTHERS REALLY FIGHT FOR NET
NEUTRALITY?
[SOURCE: Digital Destiny, AUTHOR: Jeff Chester]
[Comentary] Word from sources in Congress say that the major
companies arguing for network neutrality have failed so far to
demonstrate they are seriously committed to seeing legislation
passed. While the CEO’s from the Bell companies, we were told, glad-
handed members of Congress, leading online companies have been
largely MIA. Imagine if on its home pages Google, Yahoo!, and
Microsoft’s MSN urged users to take action and asked them to save the
Internet. Congress would be overwhelmed with angry emails and
letters. The Bell/cable industry “grass-tops” faux campaign would be
seen as a very minor, paid-for, outcry. But we wonder whether Google,
Microsoft and Yahoo! really want to see network neutrality
legislation? They must have serious misgivings, since they have done
such an incompetent and half-hearted lobbying effort so far.
Certainly they are thinking about the downsides of legislation. For
today’s call for network neutrality could (and should) lead to other
legislative safeguards, such as protecting privacy online. Microsoft,
Google, and Yahoo! fear that such privacy safeguards would threaten
their interactive advertising/data collection digital golden gooses.
<http://www.democraticmedia.org/jcblog/?p=29>
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