Google ditching network neutrality?

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I long for the day when reporters:

1) Don't spew lies and misconceptions intentionally.

- or -

2) Learn about the technology they write about.

Network neutrality isn't about disallowing a company
to invest into their infrastructure to make access to
their services responsive and available. Network
neutrality is about service providers (ISPs, cable
companies, phone companies) to provide Internet access
which is neutral in terms of the information or site
being requested.

For instance, if Google makes a deal with the cable
companies to host their servers at their respective
locations, it would only be a violation of network
neutrality if the cable companies then denied similar
deals with all other organizations. If the cable
companies kept their doors open to similar deals with
other companies, then it's simply a matter of being in
the co-location business, which isn't a violation of
network neutrality.

Otherwise, someone could say that the city of Mountain
View, California is somehow violating network
neutrality by allowing the people of its city faster
access to Google's Mountain View servers.

Now, if Google struck a deal that agreed that requests
to other specified sites through cable companies would
be throttled to a lower speed artificially, but
requests to Google's servers were artificially sped
up... this would be a violation of network neutrality.
If, however, the requests going to Google's servers
were only faster and more responsive because Google's
servers are more plentiful... more spread out... and
hosted at each cable company's main locations... then
this is not a violation of network neutrality and is,
in fact, the basis for how the Internet was born.

Want faster site access for the east coast? Setup
servers in a co-location facility in the east. Want
faster site access for China? Setup servers in China.
This has been happening with the Internet for years.
This is nothing new and the fact that this is being
spun into something that it is not... and somehow into
something that is uniquely "Google"... is just proof
that true "journalism" is being deteriorated at a
rapid pace these days.

Posted by: BIGELLOW   Posted on: 12/14/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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