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Google’s Omnipresent Tracking Much Harder to Leave than an ISP for Privacy
by Scott Cleland May 21, 2016Since Google chose that apt metaphor, and boasted about how easy Google makes it to “check out” your private data and “leave” to a competitor, lets test if you can ever “in fact leave” Google-Eye’s pervasively invasive online surveillance — from a privacy perspective.
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The Trust Ramifications of an EU-Google Search Bias Conviction
by Scott Cleland May 20, 2016The Sunday Telegraph reports that the EU is poised to fine Google an EU record ~€3b for “web search monopoly abuse” and that “Google will be banned from continuing to manipulate search results to favour itself and harm rivals.”
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Few outside of Alphabet-Google understand the immense market, economic, and technological power of an unaccountable monopoly over the underlying software that controls most all mobile devices in the world. Fortunately EU antitrust enforcers are some of the few who understand it.
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FCC’s Arbitrary Competition Policy — Edge Platforms Can’t Be Gatekeepers?
by Scott Cleland March 5, 2016Looking backwards at 1934-era Title II telephone utility law, the FCC concluded in its 2015 Open Internet Order that only broadband providers could be “gatekeepers” warranting net neutrality regulation to “protect and promote the “virtuous cycle” that drives innovation and investment on the Internet.”
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Can “Bright Line” FCC Title II Discrimination Bans Be Just and Reasonable?
by Scott Cleland February 12, 2016Net neutrality absolutists are overreaching yet again in their push for a practical FCC ban of ISP zero rating offers under the FCC’s case-by-case “General Conduct Standard” review, by claiming violations of the “bright-line rules” in the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order against blocking, throttling and paid prioritization.
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The FCC Isn’t Neutral toward Silicon Valley’s Dominant Edge Platforms
by Scott Cleland January 9, 2016The world is watching and taking note of the FCC’s blatant competition double standard that totally favors America’s dominant edge platforms above most everyone and everything else.