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Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web
WallStreetJournal ^
| 12/15/08
| VISHESH KUMAR and CHRISTOPHER RHOADS
Posted on 12/15/2008 8:39:47 AM PST by Sammy67
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posted on
12/15/2008 8:39:48 AM PST
by
Sammy67
To: Sammy67
The net neutrality nuts are going to love this; especially coming from their supposedly “not evil” Google.
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posted on
12/15/2008 8:56:42 AM PST
by
eclecticEel
(In short, I want Obama given the same respect and deference that Democrats have given George Bush)
To: eclecticEel
Google has been evil ever since they climbed into bed with the Chicoms and censorship there.
Which many here on FR supported as “free trade”.........
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posted on
12/15/2008 8:58:25 AM PST
by
Emperor Palpatine
("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
To: Emperor Palpatine
Which many here on FR supported as free trade......... You're absolutely right. Individuals and corporations should NOT be free to spend their own money where they choose. The government knows better, so we should leave such decisions up to them. Right?
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:04:45 AM PST
by
TChris
(So many useful idiots...)
To: TChris
No, I think American business should uphold some American values.
Such as freedom and liberty.
Not go into active connivance and collaboration with the enemy.
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:06:57 AM PST
by
Emperor Palpatine
("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
To: Sammy67
An attempt to control all. Pretty soon the “Internet” will just be called “Google”
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:13:16 AM PST
by
VanillaBlizzard
(Welcome to the USSA (United Socialist States of America))
To: Emperor Palpatine
Not go into active connivance and collaboration with the enemy.The enemy? Who would that be? You're not suggesting, I hope, that Al Qaeda is doing business with Google?
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:13:56 AM PST
by
Alter Kaker
(Gravitation is a theory, not a fact. It should be approached with an open mind...)
To: Sammy67
Tempting fate, I use all the free google stuff I can figuring that if they really do crack down openly against conservatives(even more than they do now with their clever little tricks like filling new account home pages with "news" sources like msnbc and the nation and questionable outages at times)I will be among the first to know.
Only a fool would commit serious stuff to the google cloud without knowing that it could all disappear forever at a moments notice.
Now maybe google will abandon both net neutrality and political "neutrality" just as they are abandoning search result neutrality (see posts here on FR.)
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:14:17 AM PST
by
paulycy
To: Sammy67
At last the true reason for Google’s support for Obama is revealed.
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:14:55 AM PST
by
montag813
(www.FreepShop.com)
To: Emperor Palpatine
No, I think American business should uphold some American values. Such as freedom and liberty.
Not go into active connivance and collaboration with the enemy.
Now wait a minute. You were criticizing free trade with your previous comment, unless I'm mistaken.
What do you propose as an alternative to the way things are? If the status quo is unacceptable, then what?
...or are you just criticizing some specific decisions of a few individuals, but not the principle of free trade?
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:18:12 AM PST
by
TChris
(So many useful idiots...)
To: TChris
Could one of you help me? I am minimally computer literate. I have been disappointed with Google for some time. I try to find something such as the best “widget.” All I get is advertisement from sites that sell widgets. Now I find they decide what I read. How do you get rid of them? They are not listed on my computer software list so I can’t seem to remove them. If you know how to do it, go slowly in explaining how to do it. Number 2 is recommending another search engine. Thanks.
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:32:02 AM PST
by
AZFolks
To: eclecticEel
That doesn’t even make sense.
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:42:20 AM PST
by
Psycho_Bunny
(By Obama's own reckoning, isn't Lyndon LaRouche more qualified? He's run since the 70's)
To: Sammy67
But phone and cable companies argue that Internet content providers should share in their network costs This is the stupidest argument I've seen in months, and I scan Democratic Underground to find stuff worthy of calling to PJ's attention for the DUmmie FUnnies.
If there were no content providers, nobody would buy Internet services from the telco companies. If anything, the latter are free-riding on the former, not vice versa.
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:42:40 AM PST
by
steve-b
(Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
To: Sammy67
Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content, according to documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. George W. Bush skipped out on his National Guard obligations, according to documents reviewed by CBS News.
Until we see the originals of these "documents", there is no story here.
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:44:29 AM PST
by
steve-b
(Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
To: Sammy67
It's called MPLS traffic engineering and companies are paying for their own traffic to "tunnel" through the Internet now. It's not much for Google to tunnel directly to major "intersections" on the network for everybody to get to them faster.
What I'd really like to know, though, is what's up with WSJ's picture of Obama?
To: Sammy67
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:45:22 AM PST
by
GOP Poet
To: mikey_hates_everything
"They made ME the President of the United States! HA HA HA!!!"
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posted on
12/15/2008 9:51:38 AM PST
by
paulycy
To: AZFolks
Could one of you help me? I am minimally computer literate. I have been disappointed with Google for some time. I try to find something such as the best widget. All I get is advertisement from sites that sell widgets. Now I find they decide what I read. How do you get rid of them? They are not listed on my computer software list so I cant seem to remove them. If you know how to do it, go slowly in explaining how to do it. Number 2 is recommending another search engine. Thanks. Could you please clarify if you are A) browsing to the Google website (http://www.google.com), B) using the Google search bar ( a tool bar at the top of Internet Explorer ) or C) just using the Internet Explorer search, which happens to link to Google?
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posted on
12/15/2008 12:30:02 PM PST
by
TChris
(So many useful idiots...)
To: Emperor Palpatine
Google has been evilI was referring to the corporate motto, check out point #6. Since the the company was started by a group of San Fran moonbats who were card-carrying members of the corporations are evil crowd, they had to tell themselves that they would be different from all those other wicked corporations when they started their company. Which of course only adds to the irony when they turn out to be one of the least ethical companies out there.
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posted on
12/15/2008 5:36:09 PM PST
by
eclecticEel
(In short, I want Obama given the same respect and deference that Democrats have given George Bush)
To: Alter Kaker
The enemy I speak of are the Chicoms.
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posted on
12/15/2008 7:55:16 PM PST
by
Emperor Palpatine
("I love democracy. I love Free Republic")
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