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Comments on news posted 2010-08-12 15:40:18: Google continues to work on damage control over their deal arrangement telecom policy lambada with Verizon. ..

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monk
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leave it alone when some tries to fix something that works they will mess it up like this don't worry taxes are good for you

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United States of Corporate America.

Welcome to the club

gball
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So

I guess the whole Google is out to save the children is out the window now?

Big business will always be big business here in the good old USA!!

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said by monk :

leave it alone when some tries to fix something that works they will mess it up like this don't worry taxes are good for you
Google's blog post did a good job of laying out all the things their critics got wrong. You need to keep government out if a company is going to make a profit.
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I guess the whole Google is out to save the children is out the window now?
That was a PR initiative and nothing more. "Google the Good" was an ad campaign and that was all it ever was.

gball
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I was just being sarcastic...a lot of people have this impression that Google is for the good of the people and not like other big business's.

i couldnt say if that came from a commercial or not just something i have noticed in comments etc over time.
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Stay on the case !

Good work bird-dogging Google on this.

I have also discussed this at

»tahoeblue.wordpress.com/ ··· llerman/

and referenced your comments.

FFH5
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5 groups protesting at Google friday

»www.pcworld.com/article/203178/
Five left-leaning groups
that want the U.S. government to create formal network neutrality rules
are organizing a rally to protest a recent proposal by Google and Verizon Communications at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, California, Friday.

Organizers of the protest, including Free Press and MoveOn.org, hope that it will convince Google, which has long voiced support for net neutrality, to abandon the joint proposal with Verizon.

Organizers of the rally at Google's headquarters are urging the FCC to "not let Google be evil," in form letters circulating since Google and Verizon released their proposal.
Given today's comments in the Google Blog, I doubt some rally is going to change their mind.

P.S.>> organizers are ColorofChange.org, Credo Action, MoveOn.org, Free Press and the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.

morbo
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Google, up until this point, had been a contrast between what I'll call business as usual. Yes, Google always wanted to make money -- they are a business. However, when they did so it didn't make us customers/users feel like we had to take a shower after doing so. You know, the car dealer shower? Now, we may start needing a shower...

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said by morbo:

Google, up until this point, had been a contrast between what I'll call business as usual. Yes, Google always wanted to make money -- they are a business. However, when they did so it didn't make us customers/users feel like we had to take a shower after doing so. You know, the car dealer shower? Now, we may start needing a shower...
All the while happily mining your information for every drop they could sell off to anybody. They were never "good" or "different" they just had a really good brand manager who duped a bunch of people into thinking they were different.

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No one cares about mined info except the super paranoid. It's a legitimate trade off -- free or near free experience for them mining our data.

And yes, Google was good and better than the rest. Go back and read. This change is a significant move away from that path. If it makes you feel smarter than everyone else for not believing Google was different then go nuts.

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Google Voice Search..

Who cares!?!?!?! Did you guys see the new Google Voice Search App!!! It's frickin awesome!

I've been sending texts and doing damn near everything without typing a single word typed! This is awesome!

Well.. okay this is an important issue too..

I sent a letter to Google demanding they stop this crap.. Letters have been sent to the FCC and other important political figures to get this crap straightened out.

While I do like Google, I think under no circumstances should any large company get to make up regulatory rules, period.

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said by TCub:

Who cares!?!?!?! Did you guys see the new Google Voice Search App!!! It's frickin awesome!
It is available on my iPad and works very well. Very cool app.
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While I do like Google, I think under no circumstances should any large company get to make up regulatory rules, period.
They didn't MAKE the rules. All they did was suggest what they SHOULD be. That is what lobbying is all about. The FCC & Congress get to MAKE the rules.

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Didn't know it was on iPad. I'll have to check it out! Thanks for the heads up.

@MMH.. Right I understand that.. but they're passing these rules off as what they're going to/should follow.. Suggestion or not.. just leave it to a third party to ensure everything is kept fair and honost.

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Re: 5 groups protesting at Google friday

yeah i keep getting emails from credo. They no doubt purchased my name from MoveOn.

What irony.

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said by FFH5:

You need to keep government out if a company is going to make a huge profit, and screw consumers
Fixed it for ya
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said by FFH5:

said by TCub:

While I do like Google, I think under no circumstances should any large company get to make up regulatory rules, period.
They didn't MAKE the rules. All they did was suggest what they SHOULD be. That is what lobbying is all about. The FCC & Congress get to MAKE the rules.
You of all people show know how it works, having been part of the whole lobbying problem.

Oh, and I thought you didn't believe that the FCC had any power to make rules?
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Man you are just begging for the government to come regulate the internet, aren't you. Net Neutrality will be used to foreclose opportunity and possible competition, not guarantee it, just like radio, just like early television, just like cable, just like the early telephone system.

You are begging for someone to come and cripple the services you like, and leave only the largest giants standing, but you're too young and stupid to actually read any history, because MTV knows better.
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Oh well, I'm sure they'll get right on it then. Maybe we can get Nancy Pelosi to suspend going on vacation to take this important business up since you're sending a letter to "important political figures" and (gag) the FCC?

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United States of Corporate America.

Welcome to the club
You mean the "United corporate police states of america"?
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I sent a letter to Google demanding they stop this crap.. Letters have been sent to the FCC and other important political figures to get this crap straightened out.
wish I had your enthusiasm and optimism toward such things!!
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Well...actually

The largest corporations and interests have heavy influence on our government, in order to get special benefits to themselves or to lobby against the competition.

Most of the time when government interferes, the end result is usually either more power or more benefits to the most powerful few, and usually disruptive or detrimental interference for the rest.

It's a vicious cycle.

Ever hear of the dead peasants insurance scam?

Companies like DOW chemical and Walmart have been secretly taking out life insurance policies on their own employees, paying the premium and collecting all the money when they die. (I wonder why they hire a lot of elderly folks.. hmm)

That's where government regulation SHOULD come into play, is enforcing anti-fraud laws.
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You seem to be forgetting that the destruction of the common carrier model by the Powell FCC's fraud upon the nation was what reduced competition and eliminated innovative offerings and services from agile small ISPs who were able to respond to users requests and needs. Now we're reduced to dealing with a couple of huge bureaucracies who seem to not even be capable of internal communication to resolve customer problems

Now we're told that the FCC does not have the power to undo the Powell blunder? This is madness. Take a look at the nations around the world which are leaving the US in a cloud of dust and note that what works elsewhere, and encourages vibrant competition, is "common carrier" rules. Or are you of the opinion that because the "incumbents" own poles, wires, rights of way and metro-cable plant that they are to be endowed with a monopoly on Internet Provisioning and Services?

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You need to keep government out if a company is going to make a profit.
Yawn.

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said by funchords:
said by FFH5:

You need to keep government out if a company is going to make a profit.
Yawn.
Pithy comment. Is that the best you can do?
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Don't forget Sen. Demint

Our good Senator has the new google complex here in Goose Creek, SC so don't forget he is bought and paid for this year in the elections, but again our only challenger is Alvin Green.
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Good enough for me. Thanks!
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I'd like to see them go "oh well, it was just a suggestion" shrug and leave. Then I will applaud.

But I get a feeling that's not gonna happen.

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And yes, Google was good and better than the rest. Go back and read. This change is a significant move away from that path. If it makes you feel smarter than everyone else for not believing Google was different then go nuts.

I'm going nuts.

For years I got called a loony for implying Google was less than perfect. It all went downhill when we collectively agreed bots could scan our personal email in exchange for a superior free email service. It's not the end of the world, but it was the first step down a slippery slope to where we are now.

I use an android phone and Google calendar everyday. It's impossible to avoid them, their free apps are better than paid alternatives. I gave up a long time ago arguing against using their products, because they are made for our generation.

The generation of piracy. The generation that expects everything cost no money.

Google is capitalizing on that. Their phone OS beats everything else and look at its cost. Their calendar system is better than what I could pay for as far as portable device integration & functionality, $50/yr for big business & free to myself. Look at their email service in 2007 vs. yahoo mail.

Look at all the shit they offer for free.

It's not free, people. It's not free.
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