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Re: Regulatory intervention

  • From: Robert E.Seastrom
  • Date: Fri Oct 07 13:10:30 2005

Daniel Golding <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

"Don't be evil" surrenders.  Film at 11.

                                        ---Rob