Is the end of network neutrality more doomsday hype like yesterday’s Y2K or tomorrow’s peak level oil crash? Free Press offers reason why the threat is really real, why we should care and what we can do about it.
You know who else understands what’s going on? Someone at Google has got them buying up dark fiber. Refer to my last article on the physical (really real) basis of the Internet, and think to yourself – so if Google “does no evil”, and probably isn’t too excited about paying Verizon or At&T or whoever for use of their pipeline to pump their cyber gold to the masses, what might they think of doing, with oh, say, a few billion dollars… In a nut shell, Google is buying up thousands of miles of incompletely installed, currently unused fibre-optic cable abandoned by dotcom busts. Or so the rumors go…
But why should we the people believe that GoogleNet will be any different from MurdochWeb or A-T&T-P://…? The revolution is coming, will it be streamloaded?
