From the AdSense Publisher blog. h**p://adsense.blogspot.com/2006/06/letter-from-eric-schmidt-ceo.html I feel it's appropriate to paste here - now get commenting. Pete
Start the letters and faxes going now. Links below can be used to find senators and representative. http://www.senate.gov/ http://www.house.gov/
I have heard this talked about for a while now. I just think its really funny/ironic that Google would write a letter like this. Re-read the article, but replace phone and cable companies with the word Google. Still very acurate.
Ha, it's funny if you replace it all with Google, it doesn't make much sense, but I had a nice larf (laugh).
Lets send a letter to Google telling them to restore all our indexed pages that have been dropped and restore our serps AND WE WILL write all the fricken letters they want!
I wonder really how important this change in law is to the average business? CEO's always highlight parts of legislation which will hurt them and ignore other parts which might go the other direction. I think I will do a bit more reading on the details of this legislation before I fire off a letter to my Congressman just because Google's CEO tells me to. Isn't this the same legislation that co-founder "Brin" went to Washington about the other day and when he got there he discovered that since many members didn't even know he was coming they wouldn't meet with him because of scheduling conflicts? I think it's the same thing.
they dont accept the proposal on how to fight click fraud, they dont accept the use of iframe with guard, they dont accept hiding adsense code via server-side function, and now they want our support?? give us a break ..
Read between the lines. This is all about AT&T, and Verizon wanting to stop VOIP. They're providing the lines that the VOIP is going over, and yet their long distance revenue is falling. The big communications folks finally have the competition they wanted and don't like it.
Matts is spot on, this is ALL about dwindling call revenue. In the Uk we can now get bundles that include all telephone calls and broadband (2MB) thrown in, we get it for less than £20 a month.
The sad part in all of this is that Verizon was building their own long distance network and trying to compete against MCI/Worldcom -- up until they bought them. And with that purchase they got with the Internet backbone and the Voip competion on their own ip network. If I were in their shoes, I think I'd be thinking the same way. They can't raise rates to ISPs, as those prices are competitive and are also dropping. They certainly want to provide broadband access. Here in the eastern US Verizon is pulling fiber to homes and deliver 45/mbps. So I'd really wonder if G has anything to worry about. It sounds scary from the wording of the bills, but it's be hard to belive that they'd try to regulate pricing individual web sites. But I still believe it's unfair to give priority to one site over another and the bill would allow that. I met some folks about a year ago that got rich working for a company bought out by Cisco, that was able to figure out how to prioritize Voip over web traffic. What a strange twist that the technology may get used in reverse
Even if it makes it through the House, it will not make it through the Senate. Remember, most politicians are small business-people too.
Most politicians are businessmen too? Not small-businessmen. Corporatists. The distinction is obvious. One embraces free market competition. The other wants government favors, regulations, and largesse to give themselves a market advantage.
Those in control, like further control. I see this bill passing. I checked EFF, and found nothing, but this site says this bill is actually politically based not because of big companies, but big political machines, like moveon . org. Act Now Against "Net Neutrality" Bill: http://capwiz.com/sicminc/issues/alert/?alertid=8753641 tom
I would just like to see MSN/Yahoo/Google get pissed off at these companies. Personally I think Google alone could take down all this BS and hurt these companies really bad.
The bill sounds like another government terrorist plot to me. Who do you think took down those twins towers?. See it for yourself: http://www.thelibertyclub.net/911AV.htm Will they take down the internet? Hmmmmm..... NOPE! Too many people involved ... like half the world.
Now ... now lets not get into deep politics and religion. I've got enough headaches from drinking as it is.