OMG did you even read latehorn's post? He was saying that the government wouldn't have any more control over the Internet. Basically the same thing you said. Your response was just unnecessarily inflammatory and confusing. That being said it's amazing how these telecom companies have tried to spin this issue. Some of these "grass root" sites that they created are obviously very good at convincing people that they, the telecom companies, are on the side of the people and google, Amazon and ebay are on the side of the big bad government. lol Just check out this video. ---------- How did google "solve" the issue? ---------- I'm surprised that net neutrality isn't a big issue for every webmaster. Web hosting costs could potentially sky rocket out of the reach of most small internet business owners. If they start blocking Google's IP what do you think will happen to your adsense revenue? How would you feel if ebay started charging you 40% for each sale you made just to cover "Telecom bandwidth costs"? Affiliate marketing would die a slow death. Imagine trying to advertise affiliate products on Google if Google's traffic is cut down by 800% and your web hosting cost is $1,000 per month for only 15 GB of bandwidth. It might not be that bad. It makes more since that they would degrade streaming multi-media instead of small websites especially considering that Microsoft (with the xbox 360), Sony (with the PS3) and Google all plan to start offering High Definition Video downloads. Some of those movies could end up being 25GB+ but they tipped their hat when they included Ebay and Amazon amongst the major websites that they wanted to pay for bandwidth. Neither Ebay nor Amazon have a lot of video to download nor do they plan to offer HD video services. “I would share a lot of that concern. My free-market Republican predilections would be to be concerned if this were new, and if rules didn’t already apply… These are temporary conditions applied to AT&T and Verizon.†- Misener debating for Net Neutrality
I'm not sure. I reported that time to google and told them my findings that this IP is testing new software and their ads didn't show for days, while all the other IP's in the same country worked fine. The support team handed the case over to the engineers - that's what they told me - and after 2 days everything worked well again. I don't think that they will tell us more about this. I also don't believe that this was just a technical bug. Google may let them use this as an excuse (technical bug) perhaps.