Neutering the ’Net

Wall Street Journal by Holman Jenkins | Sep. 23, 2009 (Opinion)
The real agenda of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and other status-quo web powers behind the Obama administration's Net Neutrality campaign.

Like Chekhov's gun, "net neutrality" gets dragged down from the mantel for every act of the broadband rollout. It's getting dragged down now for the rollout of wireless broadband. Full Story »

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Subjects: Business, Sci/Tech
Topics: Internet, Telecommunications, Google
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Sep 23, 2009 - 8:53 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Kaizar Campwala (review), Fred Gatlin (review)
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Edited by: Kaizar Campwala - Sep 23, 2009 - 9:35 AM PDT

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Kaizar Campwala
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 by Kaizar Campwala - Sep. 23, 2009

Tells only one side of the net neutrality story. It's complicated. There are issues over the semi-monopolies telco's have in some regions, and the ability of telco's to promote their own content over others.

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Fred Gatlin
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 by Fred Gatlin - Sep. 23, 2009

This commentary apparently does not understand Neutering the Net. If I understand, Google and other search engines can change times to get to sites and ask sites to pay more for faster times. This commentary missed the mark badly.

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