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Net Neutrality Opponent Calls Google a "Bandwidth Hog"
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."
...but Google apparently doesn't want me to.
The post loads perfectly. The post finishes loading. The post displays perfectly in its entirety. I start reading it. Then, after 15 seconds, it disappears and is replaced with a message saying "Your request took too long to complete. This is typically just a temporary error due to high network traffic or heavy usage of Blogger."
Thanks, Google. I love an application that claims there's an error when nothing's wrong, and displays the message in such a way that I can't even read the article that was displaying perfectly until you replaced it with your error message. Says a lot for the quality of Blogger.
If only presidents were like this!