What is Net Neutrality?

Net neutrality is a debate over the future direction of the Internet. NetCompetition advocates continuing a free market Internet and opposes a government-run Internet. Net neutrality advocates activist regulation of broadband prices, terms, and conditions.

Google Now Admits its Search Isn’t Neutral

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 10:55:24 +0000 There’s new evidence from Google itself, that Google’s search results are not neutral, as Google has long publicly represented them to be, and as Google expects everyone on the Open Internet to be. (Kudos to famed trustbuster Gary Reback for unearthing the core information that I spotlight in this post; it is from Mr. Reback’s [...]

Google’s Showdown with DOJ over Book Settlement

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:10:03 +0000 Most have missed that there’s a big antitrust showdown happening this week. February 4th, the DOJ must file a second round of comments on the Google Book Settlement 2.0 with Federal District Court Judge Chin, after Google almost completely ignored DOJ’s substantial legal objections in its Book Settlement 2.0 revision. The Google-DOJ showdown in a [...]

Google’s Search Revenue Share is Now 93% & Google Is Hiking Prices for Captive Publishers

Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:44:19 +0000 In the last year, Google has taken almost a third of the search revenue market share that they did not have before — per recent company reports. In other words, Google’s search revenue share increased from 90% in 4Q08 to 93% in 4Q09. To understand the math, supporting numbers,and links behind this estimate see the [...]

FCC Reclassification is Eminent Domain, but with No Just Compensation or Authority

Mon, 01 Feb 2010 10:06:24 +0000 At core the FCC’s contemplation of reclassifying, or effectively treating, unregulated broadband info services as regulated telecom services, would be tantamount to the FCC declaring “eminent domain” over private broadband providers, i.e. justifying a government takings of private property for public uses, but doing so “without just compensation” or any statutory authority. The U.S. Constitution’s [...]

“If Google can drop China, it can drop you”

Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:27:31 +0000 My vote for quote of the month on Google was “If Google can drop China, it can drop you.” This profound razor-sharp insight was said by Howard Shelanski, speaking for himself, not the Federal Trade Commission, at the Free State Foundation’s annual conference at the National Press Club in Washington DC on Friday. Mr. Shelanski [...]

Fact Checking Google’s New Privacy Principles — Part XVIII Publicacy vs Privacy Series

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:23:20 +0000 Google posted “Google’s Privacy Principles” for International Privacy Day and made a pretty sweeping official representation to the public in its announcement post: “We’ve always operated with these principles in mind. Now, we’re just putting them in writing so you have a better understanding of how we think about these issues from a product perspective.” [...]

Net Neutrality Would Kill Jobs — see new American Consumer Institute study for the evidence

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:01:03 +0000 If Congress and the Administration truly are focused on lowering unemployment and creating jobs, one of the easiest things they can do is tell the FCC to not kill potentially tens of thousands of jobs by preemptively regulating broadband Internet access to address a non-existent problem. Kudos to the American Consumer Institute for an excellent [...]

GoogleMonitor.com Launches Today — Will spotlight Google’s lack of transparency and accountability

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:27:57 +0000    January 27, 2010 For Immediate Release   Contact: Scott Cleland 703-217-2407 Media@GoogleMonitor.com GoogleMonitor.com Launches Today Will spotlight Google’s lack of transparency and accountability WASHINGTON – A new web site designed to make Google more transparent and accountable launched today. GoogleMonitor.com is a crowd-sourcing site which will keep watch on the Web’s top watcher of everyone. “Google is the most powerful company in the [...]

FreePress: The Gutter’s Beacon

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:16:26 +0000 Unfortunately FreePress long ago chose to be the gutter’s beacon of low-road politics and not a shining beacon of high-road politics to emulate. FreePress was unfortunately disingenuous in its Hill op-ed today, in saying “When is comes to Internet freedom, the United States of America can be a beacon to the rest of the world. But [...]

Must-read Op-ed by Andrew Keen “Internet Freedoms and Internet Radicals

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 12:10:30 +0000 Please don’t miss Andrew Keen’s outstanding and dead-on-point op-ed in The Hill: “Internet Freedoms and Internet Radicals.” Mr. Keen brilliantly proves how radical and out of the mainstream FreePress’ and Public Knowledge’s views are in calling for radical, preemptive, and draconian regulation of competitive broadband companies that have long supported, and operate under, the high-consensus [...]