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Google Fires Off Warning to US Telcos
mytrip writes "The US Senate Commerce Committee last week approved reforms in communications legislation that will make it easier for Internet providers to offer IP-based television.
The resultant perceived threat of telecommunications companies muscling in on the Web has stirred search giant Google into firing off warnings.
A spokesman said it would not hesitate to file anti-trust complaints if Internet-providing telcos abuse powers that could come from U.S. legislators in further reforms - some of which, Google argues, could threaten 'Net Neutrality'.
The EFF is pretty ineffective in moving change, no? Why include them?
If by "moving change," you mean finding a way of getting all the loose coins out of your piggy bank and into theirs, I'd say, no, they've proven pretty darned effective at that.
If you meant "actually making a difference," then I'd say your analysis is spot on.
It was a nice ride while it lasted; but we've reached the endgame. The telecos have the resources to both choke google's air supply and then drag them through the court system until they've spent every last cent of their assets.
The telecos have the government on their side, they own the wire and they own the people who write and enforce the law.
I mean, it's nice of google to throw themselves in front of the juggernaut this way, but in the end it's as futile as it is stupid.
Maybe after a third neocon administration you hippies will get it through your heads you've been conquered.
So demonstrating their search monopoly would do what now?
Maybe inspire legislators to create the notion of search neutrality, forcing google to implement pagerank according to a law? It would also give ammunition to those who are already trying to bring antitrust cases against Google.