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BellSouth Wants to Rig the Internet
PlayfullyClever writes "A senior telecommunications executive at BellSouth, said yesterday that Internet service providers should be allowed to strike deals to give certain Web sites or services priority in reaching computer users, a controversial system that would significantly change how the Internet operates. Some say Small Firms Could Be Shut Out of Market Championed by BellSouth Officer. William L. Smith, chief technology officer for Atlanta-based BellSouth Corp., told reporters and analysts that an Internet service provider such as his firm should be able, for example, to charge Yahoo Inc. for the opportunity to have its search site load faster than that of Google Inc." Next up, well dressed men go door to door collecting their monthly "protection money". 'It sure would be tragic if your users started getting 1500ms ping times, wouldn't it mister dot com?'
Ethics? Business?
Same sentence?
That's a troll if I've ever seen one. My primary business (not the one in my sig) is pretty fucking ethical. Actually, so's my porn site for that matter. Of course, there are the scads of ethical big businesses like there Whole Foods, SAS Institute, Ben & Jerry's before they were bought out, etc. To say that business and ethics can't coincide is just ignorant.