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| I hope Google will understand... I hope Google will understand that if there was ever a time to get involved in the process, that time is now. They are, viewed one way, the world's biggest information repository (okay, so technically speaking, they don't actually host most of the information, but still...) and certainly they ought to have an idea of what AT&T and Verizon are wanting, and how bad it would be if they got their way. I just think that Google (and really, any other company that's invested in the Internet) ought to realize that this is the time to act, not sit on the sidelines and let the big telco lobbyists, astroturf groups and sock puppets have their way.
Other companies that depend on the Internet also have a lot to lose - eBay, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple - all those companies will lose significantly if the big telcos and cable companies manage to keep most of the U.S. in the technological "dark ages" for decades to come. And by now all those companies ought to realize that the phone companies have learned to game the system to their advantage quite well, and if you just sit on the sidelines and don't offer a counterpoint (one that likely comes from a far more technologically enlightened position, I might add) you lose - and so do we all! | |
| said by Hard_Drive:I hope Google will understand that if there was ever a time to get involved in the process, that time is now. They are, viewed one way, the world's biggest information repository (okay, so technically speaking, they don't actually host most of the information, but still...) and certainly they ought to have an idea of what AT&T and Verizon are wanting, and how bad it would be if they got their way. I just think that Google (and really, any other company that's invested in the Internet) ought to realize that this is the time to act, not sit on the sidelines and let the big telco lobbyists, astroturf groups and sock puppets have their way. Other companies that depend on the Internet also have a lot to lose - eBay, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple - all those companies will lose significantly if the big telcos and cable companies manage to keep most of the U.S. in the technological "dark ages" for decades to come. And by now all those companies ought to realize that the phone companies have learned to game the system to their advantage quite well, and if you just sit on the sidelines and don't offer a counterpoint (one that likely comes from a far more technologically enlightened position, I might add) you lose - and so do we all! It's nut up or shut up like I always say.Let's hope google,ebay,apple and etc.. do that and step it up | | |
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