{"id":4706,"date":"2008-07-30T18:37:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T01:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/will-google-be-the-fccs-next-target\/"},"modified":"2008-07-30T18:37:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T01:37:12","slug":"will-google-be-the-fccs-next-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/30\/will-google-be-the-fccs-next-target\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Google be the FCC&#8217;s next target?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tTruth is stranger than fiction. This report in ZDNet suggests that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/?p=9487\">Google may well find itself in the crosshairs of net regulators gone wild:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google clearly wants the FCC to make sure that other private companies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 networks are open equally to all Internet services. Now, it will be interesting to see if that applies to networks in which Google is involved.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the Commission takes up the question of whether Comcast Corp., the nation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s largest provider of high-speed access to the Internet, is \u00e2\u20ac\u0153secretly degrading peer-to-peer applications,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 as the FCC agenda puts it.<\/p>\n<p>As Multichannel News reports, Google Inc. is pressing the Commission to provide clear guidance to broadband network owners on acceptable ways of managing Internet traffic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Google is shortly to become a network operator, a partner with Comcast in the Clearwire 4G network. Google intends to secure itself pride of place with a Google button on the Clearwire phone, a violation of all that is holy and neutral. This should be fun.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Google\" rel=\"tag\">Google<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/FCC\" rel=\"tag\">FCC<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/net neutrality\" rel=\"tag\">net neutrality<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truth is stranger than fiction. This report in ZDNet suggests that Google may well find itself in the crosshairs of net regulators gone wild: Google clearly wants the FCC to make sure that other private companies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 networks are open equally to all Internet services. Now, it will be interesting to see if that applies to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/30\/will-google-be-the-fccs-next-target\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Will Google be the FCC&#8217;s next target?&#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":[33,7,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fcc","category-google","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1dU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","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=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}