I'd like to see someone getting more upset about the ongoing outright
censorship on the part of the carrier monopolies. Several carriers block
access to certain IPs, ports and protocols. Im looking at cable modem
carrier companies in particular, for some reason they realy dont like
thier customers using SMTP, or HTTP. Fortuneately those of us who are in
possesion of rackspace and know how to run SLIP over UDP DNS datagrammes,
or savy enough to setup an account at HE.net can bypass this rotten
censorship. But why should we have to? How is the non-savy end user even
suposed to know how to solve this problem?
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Dustin Goodwin wrote:
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:08:05 -0500
From: Dustin Goodwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: [nycwireless] Google: We Won't Pay Broadband Cyberextortion
January 18, 2006
Google: We Won't Pay Broadband Cyberextortion
BellSouth and Verizon have been trying to force big Web sites to pay
extortion-type fees
<http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/01/bellsouth_cyber.html>if
the sites want adequate bandwidth, with Google a prime target. But Google has
news for them: It won't pay.
Google told Networking Pipeline's Paul Kapustka in no uncertain terms that it
won't give in to the cyberextortion. And despite reports to the contrary,
Google says, it isn't talking with any carriers about the issue.
Google's Barry Schnitt told Paul in an email: "Google is not discussing
sharing of the costs of broadband networks with any carrier. We believe
consumers are already paying to support broadband access to the Internet
through subscription fees and, as a result, consumers should have the freedom
to use this connection without limitations."
Google has that absolutely right. We're all already paying through the nose
for Internet access, especially compared with the low access prices in the
rest of the world. Good for Google for standing up to this cyberextortion.
The BellSouths and Verizons of the world should focus on offering better
services at lower prices -- not trying to fine-tune the Tony Soprano business
model. That's been tried already, by a company you may have heard of, called
Enron. And look where it got them.
Posted by Preston Gralla at 11:16 AM | Permalink
<http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/01/google_we_wont.html>
http://www.networkingpipeline.com/blog/archives/2006/01/google_we_wont.html;jsessionid=MEM0JX0NOBYLYQSNDBOCKHSCJUMEKJVN
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