| Don't fear the ISP lobbyists; fear the Google lobbyists What we really have to worry about is not the lobbyists from ISPs but rather the lobbyists from Google. Google has been buying so-called "public interest" groups inside the Beltway, including Free Press, Public Knowledge, and Media Access Project, and has been sending their lobbyists out to lobby for regulation of the Internet (which they call "network neutrality" -- even though it's not neutral at all; all of the specific measures they advocate favor Google). We don't want a regulated Internet. Once the nose of the regulatory camel is in the tent, government will engage in censorship and other restrictions that will harm all of us. |
