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Eric Schmidt on Net Neutrality
GillBates0 writes "Google's CEO Eric Schmidt has written an open letter to the Google user community asking them to speak out on the issue of net neutrality. The official Google Blog has a blurb on this as well. From the letter: 'In the next few days, the House of Representatives is going to vote on a bill that would fundamentally alter the Internet. That bill, and one that may come up for a key vote in the Senate in the next few weeks, would give the big phone and cable companies the power to pick and choose what you will be able to see and do on the Internet ... Creativity, innovation and a free and open marketplace are all at stake in this fight.'"
This is the company that has made a name for itself by removing right-wing blogs for "hate speech" from its index. Seems to me that it's precisely the darling of the net neutrality side that is guilty of making the ugly side of the argument, making it harder in some way to access content, a reality. It's not censorship, but it is a censor's mentality. Google has done the same with Google News like when they barred professional journalist and blogger Michelle Malkin (don't like her, but she is a published mainstream media journalist) from Google News for "not meeting editorial standards," but saw fit to allow StormFront to get indexed for a while.
Where is Google's pledge to make their fibre networks open to the public on a neutral basis? They bought up a lot of dark fibre a while ago. Where is their pledge to let people use it at fair, non-discriminatory rates for whatever protocols they want?
The United States Government hasn't been justifying much of what its been doing lately. This is nothing more than a kickback from the New Aged GOP for putting the heat on the telcos for the NSA wiretaps.