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Re: Regulatory intervention

  • From: Daniel Golding
  • Date: Fri Oct 07 12:54:32 2005

On 10/7/05 11:02 AM, "Ross Hosman" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> Google Goes to Washington
> 
> One of the issues Google will tackle has become news
> this week: Level 3 and Cogent Communications are
> involved in a spat that has made Web sites on each
> network inaccessible or very slow to users on the
> opposite network. Google said the government has a
> responsibility to monitor the Internet so events like
> this do not occur.
> 
> http://www.betanews.com/article/Google_Goes_to_Washington/1128691070
> 

Google also has a responsibility not to bite the hand that feeds it - the
laise faire, unregulated Internet.

Shame on them. Google is not suffering at all from this.

> Ross Hosman
> 
> 

-- 
Daniel Golding