Why Google and Amazon Are Hypocrites (om.blog)

Amazon earlier this month responded to Google's decision to remove YouTube from all Fire TV products and the Echo Show. Google says it's taking this extreme step because of Amazon's recent delisting of new Nest products (like Nest Secure and the E Thermostat) and the company's long-running refusal to sell Chromecast or support Google Cast in any capacity. Veteran journalist Om Malik writes: This smacks of so much hypocrisy that I don't even know where to start. The two public proponents of network neutrality and anything but neutral about each other's services on each other's platforms. They can complain about the cable companies from blocking their content and charging for fast lanes. The irony isn't lost on me even a wee bit. They are locked in a battle to collect as much data about us -- what we shop, what we see, what we do online and they do so under the guise of offering us services that are amazing and wonderful. They don't talk about what they won't do with our data, instead, they bicker and distract. So to think that these purveyors of hyper-capitalism will fight for interests of consumers is not only childish, it is foolish. We as end customers need to figure out who is speaking on our behalf when it comes to the rules of the Internet.

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alabama

[polar red]

As hypocritical as christians electing a pedo ?

Re:alabama

[king neckbeard]

The hypocrisy is the irrational fear of gays and trans people being sexual predators, when Moore himself is a sexual predator, and the GOP can't be fucked to nominate LITERALLY ANYONE ELSE for the position.

Re:Not hypocritcal

[OYAHHH]

A good parallel is both Amazon and Google are (and are planning even more) suckling at the government teat.

Case #1 in point, Amazon shopping it's new mega-whatever facility it is around the country with cities practically everywhere bending over backwards to give them tax credits.

Case #2 in point, Google's execs regularly fly their Boeing 767 into and out of government owned Moffett Field rather than "fight the lines" at San Jose International a mere 4 or 5 more miles down the road.

Whether it is Uber, Lyft, Google, Amazon, Comcast, or AT&T they ALL in some manner depend upon government supporting their endeavors. To think otherwise is just foolish.

Do I personally want Net Neutrality? Absolutely not. The actions of Google at Moffett Field show me exactly what happens when big business cozies up to big government. It's not pretty. And that is exactly what will happen with Net Neutrality. Big government will absolutely pick and choose the winners and the losers.

And guess what happens then? We all lose! Just like the people of Venezuela have.

I much rather Google and Amazon be forced to make it in the marketplace without being given the right to be in my "leader's" ears at a moments notice without me even knowing it.

Same goes for AT&T and Comcast, I want competition for those scarce government resources among them. Not the buddy system which government rule always devolves into at some point in time.