{"id":4158,"date":"2006-04-25T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T02:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/2006\/04\/25\/please-do-not-fix-the-net\/"},"modified":"2006-04-25T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T02:22:26","slug":"please-do-not-fix-the-net","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/25\/please-do-not-fix-the-net\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Do Not Fix The Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThis is a real embarrassment to the high-tech community. A group of semi-monopolies have banded together to pressure Congress to freeze the architecture of the Internet where it is today. They&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dontmesswiththenet.com\/blog\/\">a blog replete with hysteria and panic (nothing new there)<\/a> and are running ads. The culprits include Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, eBay, and Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>In a way, this all makes sense: if you&#8217;re a dominant player, you don&#8217;t want the market to change. And if you&#8217;re not, perhaps you do.<\/p>\n<p>So let me just toss this out: does Microsoft want more competition in the OS business, or does Google want more competition in the search business? I think we all know the answer to that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a real embarrassment to the high-tech community. A group of semi-monopolies have banded together to pressure Congress to freeze the architecture of the Internet where it is today. They&#8217;ve got a blog replete with hysteria and panic (nothing new there) and are running ads. The culprits include Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, eBay, and Amazon. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/25\/please-do-not-fix-the-net\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Please Do Not Fix The Net&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-154","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}