tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post5058819173637760000..comments2024-03-28T03:26:33.219-04:00Comments on Google Public Policy Blog: A joint policy proposal for an open InternetUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger479125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-38152147510196224482011-05-25T16:35:31.124-04:002011-05-25T16:35:31.124-04:00I believe when attempting to come across as being ...I believe when attempting to come across as being more in tune with facts and show yourself in a more enlightened light that you could certainly think of a better word to use than the F- word.<br />It's like waiting to blow the candles out on a birthday cake without the candle being lite, Big disappointment!Richard Bastianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16367171162097630155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-26208415144257040522011-05-08T11:06:33.327-04:002011-05-08T11:06:33.327-04:00In 2006, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt ca...In 2006, Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt called for users to get involved in the fight for net neutrality, saying “creativity, innovation, and a free and open marketplace are all at stake in this fight”. If this is truly the case, then we cannot afford to make broad sweeping compromises such as leaving mobile networks unprotected. The assurance of net neutrality on wired networks does little to counteract the consequences of a non-neutral wireless mobile network.Sarahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07966835223567772239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-57518140245359723152011-04-12T15:45:19.508-04:002011-04-12T15:45:19.508-04:00it's funny to me that companies spend billions...it's funny to me that companies spend billions on the complex infrastructure pipeline, then everyone else comes out of the woodwork to say they should be able to use it on their own terms.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06492673831230524139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-77903278948292373852010-11-12T16:23:23.875-05:002010-11-12T16:23:23.875-05:00Vote with your dollars. how many bobbleheads pay ...Vote with your dollars. how many bobbleheads pay for "tethering" so your other devices can use the internet you already pay for? Don't pay for tethering! Don't buy their "services" Do you pay extra to the water utility to flush your toilet? Do you pay extra to the power company to run a refrigerator?<br /><br />Vote with your dollars people you can vote every day if you want.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03572228230599193128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-15304658233077006642010-11-12T16:16:04.974-05:002010-11-12T16:16:04.974-05:00Do no evil google.Do no evil google.Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03572228230599193128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-48734653715230048342010-11-05T22:02:39.707-04:002010-11-05T22:02:39.707-04:00Huh. Always wondered what would get me to stop usi...Huh. Always wondered what would get me to stop using Google products. Now I know. Time to abandon my GMail accounts and block Google ad services. I'll check back on you guys in a while.Symbolishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12637656410298928781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-30403353963912705282010-10-11T10:25:23.524-04:002010-10-11T10:25:23.524-04:00All of you do realize that this is an act of self ...All of you do realize that this is an act of self preservation on the part of Verizon, Google, and all of the other private companies involved, right?<br /><br />They could stand idly by and do nothing as some of you seem to want but what you don't want to comprehend is that the United States federal government won't stand idly by. They want control, COMPLETE control.<br /><br />Unfortunately, this isn't any different than Blue Cross/Blue Shield supporting national healthcare. These large corporations have adopted the "if you can't beat em, join em" mentality.<br /><br />The LAST thing we need is nationalization of anything, let alone the internet. Someone said early on to "get a warrant". We all know that they won't need one.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-31445454724250224682010-09-24T08:21:06.995-04:002010-09-24T08:21:06.995-04:00Leave well enough alone, Google.Leave well enough alone, Google.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17999948320016479077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-34293985668272090172010-09-02T20:39:24.814-04:002010-09-02T20:39:24.814-04:00Personal update; switched to from chrome to firefo...Personal update; switched to from chrome to firefox, from google to altavista. I AM SOOOO MAD. This will not stand and i will post on google so maybe they see I'm not just complaining all i want is for them to back down on one freaking issue!!! <br /><br />I just got a reply about the free market taking care of this. There is already a free market at play, the free market of information. Just as the (US) government cant prefer one religion over another my ISP should not prefer some information over another, the end... Do you really want to say that you would allow GM to sell a car that goes faster on some roads allowed by GM??? or the air bag deploys faster on those roads??? Bull! I want to use a product (that i pay for) the way i see fit. If the free market takes care of this then great but i don't want that left to chance. I love how people that are so scared of the big bad government controlling us are the first to defend big corporations in their attempts at the same gig. Just keep it simple DON'T EDIT MY INTERNET (and that goes for the FCC and Google). Is that really so hard???Hotrhodiumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11237370315825057387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-74967140783541345322010-08-24T03:33:47.214-04:002010-08-24T03:33:47.214-04:00Et tu Google?Et tu Google?rakshanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14031350150209291272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-18796653527465215862010-08-21T15:48:42.903-04:002010-08-21T15:48:42.903-04:00Google we know you have stuck to your do no evil g...Google we know you have stuck to your do no evil guidelines. But this pact with Verizon we cannot trust the words of Verizon and how are we to know that they are putting words in your mouth? If you value your customers you will back off the proposal and find another way.Ironbirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10523125760199199306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-60024323429296705892010-08-20T11:42:12.401-04:002010-08-20T11:42:12.401-04:00Google... the less regulation, the more competitio...Google... the less regulation, the more competition - the more competition the better the internet will be.<br /><br />These issues will clean themselves up by leaving it alone. As business make mistakes by providing bad service, competition will push them out of the market and force an open, transparent web. We don't need government policy to enable this. We just need time and choice.Shreddieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01847749730139940553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-81820920545345466912010-08-19T19:01:25.030-04:002010-08-19T19:01:25.030-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Marcohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17677119434750377159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-50519714803684184222010-08-18T19:46:17.718-04:002010-08-18T19:46:17.718-04:00Anyone know where the anti-net neutrality petition...Anyone know where the anti-net neutrality petition is?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-32806112242139721752010-08-18T19:45:14.235-04:002010-08-18T19:45:14.235-04:00Just leave the internet like it is. I think it is...Just leave the internet like it is. I think it is fine right now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-51034887560977826442010-08-18T16:26:09.561-04:002010-08-18T16:26:09.561-04:00Really this is how far your willing to bend over f...Really this is how far your willing to bend over for Verizon. If you were send this press release back to the google of 10 years ago would they have gone along with it? This is likely one of the biggest cop outs in this fight so far. If you don't have the weight to push threw the right solution then admit it and back out of the fight, or change your company modo so that at least your not staining your self further with lies.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11865081840605486732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-82176413323057509842010-08-17T12:39:25.806-04:002010-08-17T12:39:25.806-04:00You have lost my respect this day Google. Or shoul...You have lost my respect this day Google. Or should I say, Googlezon? <br /><br />I intend to make the most of not being forced to buy "specially catered content packages" for the services I currently get for free. A tiered internet service, will destroy, not only the internet in its current form, but also free speech on the web. <br /><br />It is important for our children's collective futures, to encourage the current media as we know it to fade into nothing. Newspapers are on their way out. Blogs are on their way in. How much will the "specially catered news service" cost me to view these future blogs? Or rather, will I be allowed to view them at all? Does that effect or not effect my rights to free speech?<br /><br />A joint Google/Verizon (Googlezon) Dictatorship sounds like hell on Earth to me. It will bring about a dystopian media shitstorm which will take centuries for us to recover, if not longer or even at all. <br /><br />Google you have fallen from grace. Your original comapny slogan of "Do no harm" should be changed to "Money MONEY MONEEYYY!!!!".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06439822971184975008noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-48925371808975277922010-08-16T12:12:16.691-04:002010-08-16T12:12:16.691-04:00everyone should go to: http://www.savetheinternet....everyone should go to: http://www.savetheinternet.com/<br /><br />read what this pact really means and how it will be harmful to free speech via the internetDigital Buzzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13606504571053662546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-78260201232290924872010-08-16T01:12:57.284-04:002010-08-16T01:12:57.284-04:00HOW THE GOOGLE/VERIZON PROPOSAL COULD KILL THE INT...HOW THE GOOGLE/VERIZON PROPOSAL COULD KILL THE INTERNET....<br /><br />http://io9.com/5610328/how-the-googleverizon-proposal-could-kill-the-internet-in-5-yearsAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11972112742569277152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-86158718824567842262010-08-16T00:52:13.771-04:002010-08-16T00:52:13.771-04:00I actually had people from my family ask me about ...I actually had people from my family ask me about this issue last week, and I said "Google? No no, they're CHAMPIONS of Net Neutrality."<br /><br />And then I read "element six" in this post.<br /><br />Come on. The "wireless broadband is different from the traditional wireline world" -- how exactly? Why is there value in wireless data on your cellphone?<br /><br />Because it has access to the INTERNET. Wired or not. <br /><br />You must have felt *some* pang of "oh, shit, I wonder if I'll get away with this." Well, you didn't. And you shouldn't. <br /><br />SHAME.Matthew McEachenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03862378488637222762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-16839849357691541792010-08-15T22:09:47.860-04:002010-08-15T22:09:47.860-04:00All that money!
Yummy yummy money!
Ya don't ha...All that money!<br />Yummy yummy money!<br />Ya don't have enough?<br />Eh... It's hard to run an openly exploitative system when the herd can speak so freely among themselves...<br />I'll bet no one much even bothers Verizon with comments. They already sold us out under Bush's Patriot act.<br />No one expected anything of them.<br />Corporations behave as psychopaths.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11677645398247959587noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-24232661595615706662010-08-15T18:57:32.502-04:002010-08-15T18:57:32.502-04:00I wont reiterate what so many of the comments here...I wont reiterate what so many of the comments here say, but i had to add my 1 single number to this list, hoping to bump the statistical noise up that much higher.<br />Mine and "Piratekingdan" history with google is the same.<br />I'll be pulling for you Google, because its still early enough for you to make the right call, but i'll be watching you closely.Danehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13794524308628963579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-41194735917711607312010-08-15T14:49:37.428-04:002010-08-15T14:49:37.428-04:00Wireline or wireless -- same rules have to apply. ...Wireline or wireless -- same rules have to apply. I know wireless infrastructure costs more, but maybe we need to fund that as a society, too, just so we don't end up having industry define that, the soon to be most important aspect of the Internet, defined FOR us. Wireless is the wave of the future. It doesn't take an oracle to see that. Wireline will soon just be the backbone for wireless, so an honest discussion cannot occur with these as separate entities.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10115233557612595567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-59621622417155616522010-08-15T09:21:05.949-04:002010-08-15T09:21:05.949-04:00I'm sorry, but I'm deeply concerned and of...I'm sorry, but I'm deeply concerned and offended by the following comment: "our proposal spells out the FCC’s role and authority in the broadband space". Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that Google and Verizon were in the private sector. Defining the "role" of a federal institution by a private institution - NO MATTER WHAT BENEFITS MAY BE ACHIEVED - is simply not correct in pricipal in a free democratic society. We are not Fascists, after all.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07492289174392581581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6479491108286515994.post-58939000858019756092010-08-15T03:31:39.350-04:002010-08-15T03:31:39.350-04:00Please read this Google!!! I love google but this ...Please read this Google!!! I love google but this is one subject i will not back down from. I have chrome not chromium my e-mail my home page has all been switched to google because i love the company. I am not going to make the argument for why google should back down from this, it has been done and well. You know the subject of net neutrality, you helped wright the book, your slogan is don't be evil. If you want to throw this in the trash than so be it. I WILL NOT BE PART OF IT. Please don't make arguments like wireless being different or limited bandwidth, I'm paying for the bandwidth I can do with it what I want! Furthermore these arguments are insulting to my intelligence. I have been on Google's side for a couple of pr upsets and will watch to see what google does here hoping they will just respect the foundation they helped build and back down. I am hopeful but lets be honest. Not a week before this google was claiming this wasn't happening. On my computer i have xp linux mint and a free partition waiting for chrome os. I am not confident it will still be there in sep and my e-mail home page it will all be something different but it is all up to google. DON'T BE EVIL.Hotrhodiumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11237370315825057387noreply@blogger.com