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Why Aren’t Google Amazon & Facebook’s Winner-Take-All Networks Neutral?
by Scott Cleland July 14, 2017Ironically, the world’s leading winner-take-all Internet platforms — Google, Amazon, and Facebook — are the leading voices of the July 12th “Internet-wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality.”
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Internet/Telecom
Google’s Information Is Power – Info-opoly Power
by Scott Cleland September 20, 2016Who thinks it wise to allow a single company to corner the global market for any set of critical inputs to the global economy — like stocks, bonds, currencies, industrial metals, precious metals, energy resources, grains, food, or livestock — with no regulatory oversight, transparency or obligation to be an honest broker?
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Google’s Growing US Search/Android Share Complicates FCC’s AllVid Proposal
by Scott Cleland May 29, 2016As more evidence comes to light exposing Google’s much increased search and Android dominance in the U.S. since the FTC closed its search and Android antitrust probes in January 2013, it only becomes clearer that the FCC’s AllVid proposed rulemaking to “Unlock the [set-top] Box” is obviously anticompetitive overall, not pro-competitive as the FCC naively claims.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Google: When Something on the Internet is Free – You’re the Product
by Seton Motley March 9, 2016And that, in a nutshell, is the lion’s share of Google’s business model. And business – is booming. Google is worth a net $350 billion. The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of Denmark – is $342 billion.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Net Neutrality Rhetoric: ‘Believe it or not!’
by Scott Cleland May 16, 2014Net Neutrality activists who have long condemned the FCC for not making the Internet fast enough now condemn the FCC for proposing to make the Internet faster!
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Like a freight train coming closer, that ominous rumbling sound you hear is not another F5 tornado in the works, although it is likely to wipe out just as much…
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EconomicsInternet/TelecomPolitics
The Negatives of Neutralizing the Net
by Andrew Barr June 18, 2011House Republicans’ recent attempt of June 15 to eliminate funding for the FCC’s “Open Internet Order” is the most recent of many objections to the Commission’s support of the plan…