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Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog"

Posted by Soulskill on from the oh-yeah-well-stop-hogging-all-the-ugly dept.

Adrian Lopez writes "According to PC World, an analyst with ties to the telecom industry — in a baseless attack on the concept of Net Neutrality — has accused Google Inc. of being a bandwidth hog. Quoting: '"Internet connections could be more affordable for everyone, if Google paid its fair share of the Internet's cost," wrote Cleland in the report. "It is ironic that Google, the largest user of Internet capacity pays the least relatively to fund the Internet's cost; it is even more ironic that the company poised to profit more than any other from more broadband deployment, expects the American taxpayer to pick up its skyrocketing bandwidth tab."' Google responded on their public policy blog, citing 'significant methodological and factual errors that undermine his report's conclusions.' Ars Technica highlighted some of Cleland's faulty reasoning as well."

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  1. Phone companies are oxygen hogs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Phone companies are one of the single greatest causes of people talking. More people talking means more oxygen consumption. And the externalities of all that poisonous CO2 exhalation.

    Phone companies are literally living off our dimes. And the Amazon and Sting and Al Gore don't even get a cut.

    1. Re:Phone companies are oxygen hogs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I love the smell of straw in the morning...

  2. Re:Probably true by earlymon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Please disregard everything I just said and I apologize for my bad attitude.

    I don't know how, but I read your first sentence 100% backwards from what you wrote.

    I totally fucked up and I'm sorry.

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  3. Re:Probably true by imamac · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was going to mod this +5 for the first apology ever on slashdot, but that option wasn't there.

  4. Re:Probably true by he-sk · · Score: 4, Funny

    No problem, and I take back my insult above. I posted it before I read your second reply.

    All is good.

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    Free Manning, jail Obama.
  5. Re:*groan* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apple makes shiny, flimsy hardware that's designed to appeal to faggots who work in interior decorating and which breaks as soon as you breathe on it or hit it with a hammer.

  6. What? No mention of Alanis? by HishamMuhammad · · Score: 2, Funny

    A misuse of the term "ironic" and no one has mentioned Alanis Morissette yet? Where is this world heading to?

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