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techliberation.com - 12/16/2008

Google’s Internet “Fast Lane”

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The Wall Street Journal reports today that Google wants a fast lane on the Internet and has claimed that the Mountain View based giant may be moving away from its stance on network neutrality: Google’s proposed arrangement with network providers, internally called OpenEdge, would ...

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online.wsj.com - 12/15/2008

Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web

— online.wsj.com — VISHESH KUMAR and CHRISTOPHER RHOADS The celebrated openness of the Internet -- network providers are not supposed... to give preferential treatment to any traffic -- is quietly losing powerful defenders. Google Inc. has approached major cable and phone ... (more) Google Wants Its Own Fast Track on the Web

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gigaom.com - 12/15/2008

Google Turns Its Back on Network Neutrality [GigaOM]

— gigaom.com — The Wall Street Journal reports that Google, long a network neutrality champion, is looking to cut deals... with broadband providers — both cable and phone companies — to get faster access for its own content. The Journal claims it has seen documents ... (more) Google Turns Its Back on Network Neutrality [GigaOM]

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bennett.com - 12/15/2008

Google Gambles in Casablanca

— bennett.com — I'm shocked. Google has been caught red-handed negotiating deals with ISPs to host servers inside the building,... just like Akamai does. The semi-technical press thinks this is some sort of a game-changing event: The celebrated openness of the Internet ... (more) Google Gambles in Casablanca

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Net Neutrality & the White Hot Spotlight of Public Attention
The Progress & Freedom Foundation Blog — Over just the past 24 hours, there's been quite a hullabaloo surrounding the Wall Street Journal's controversial front-page story on Google's edge caching plan and whether it violates Net neutrality. (See Cord's post and Bret's). Lessig calls it a "made-up drama", David Isenberg says it's "bogus" and "bullshit," and Google's Rick Whitt has said it's much ado about nothing. Regardless, here's the important thing not to overlook about this episode: It is a prime example of the what Tim Lee has referred to as "the fundamental problem of ...