hothardware.com — Google has been very vocal on its stance for net neutrality. Now, Richard Whitt--Senior Policy Director for Google--announces that Google will take an even more active role in the debate by arming consumers with the tools to determine first-hand if their broadband connections are being monkeyed with by their ISPs.
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smacksawJun 14, 2008
I want you to raise them as Unitarians so that they will support net neutrality for all.
Closed AccountJun 15, 2008
they might not be able to do it themselves but is there anything stopping them from backing someone else with big time investment $ ?
nodofficerJun 15, 2008
In Soviet Russia...
williamadamaJun 16, 2008
i don't care if they create a monopoly on the internet, if it's cheap and better than current ISP's then that's great. Other companies have had a chance to serve their customers fairly but have failed to do so.In my Canadian opinion for Canada, the ISP's should be provincially or federally funded to help keep prices low. The government should cap the prices or something and also have minimum requirements , for example, customers paying $20/month are guaranteed a minimum of 6mb/s downstream/upstream and unlimited bandwidth a month. This would be a good educational and industrial investment, it would make the internet affordable for everyone. It would be attractive for IT businesses to come setup here and also for the every day person to get online.
allisonaxeJun 16, 2008
at first, I read that as "Lord Action" and then was disappointed that it was, in fact, a quote by a real person as opposed to, what sounds like, a very cool comic book hero.
allisonaxeJun 16, 2008
but he'll come back at the end of the next season, because rodimus was a punk and never should have received the matrix in the first place.
allisonaxeJun 16, 2008
i have a very cool screensaver called "electric sheep" which uses bittorrent to process and distribute frames of animation that are created while the pc is idle. a legal, and very creative application of bittorrent networks.
m60dude5Jun 16, 2008
No p2p is like having no internet for me.
tssaloicJun 20, 2008
Sarcastic too.
nascenttJun 21, 2008
Dugg for saying that without supplying a link to your site (and possibly not even having a site).
xexxJun 21, 2008
@Austerist Uh, if there is any infrastructure problem it's because it can't support the demand of the users. Youtube doesn't tax ISPs at all, the demand for youtube does. If no one visited youtube, ISPs wouldn't have to transfer the data and youtube could sit there by itself with a million terabytes of data which if wasn't in demand wouldn't be accessed by users and wouldn't have to be transferred by ISPs. Sites like youtube don't control how much bandwidth a user uses, if any. If anything ISPs should charge by the GB for what they do use and what they access should not be controlled. You're the one stifling innovation and practically trying to destroy the internet.