{"id":5296,"date":"2008-12-15T13:04:54","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T21:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/my-google-piece-in-the-register\/"},"modified":"2008-12-15T13:04:54","modified_gmt":"2008-12-15T21:04:54","slug":"my-google-piece-in-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/my-google-piece-in-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"My Google piece in The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThanks to the miracle of trans-Atlantic collaborative journalism, here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/12\/15\/richard_bennett_no_new_neutrality\/\">my quick take on Google&#8217;s caching scheme:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Network Neutrality, the public policy unicorn that&#8217;s been the rallying cry for so many many on the American left for the last three years, took a body blow on Sunday with the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s disclosure that the movement&#8217;s sugar-daddy has been playing both sides of the fence.<\/p>\n<p>The Journal reports that Google &#8220;has approached major cable and phone companies that carry Internet traffic with a proposal to create a fast lane for its own content.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google claims that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s doing nothing wrong, and predictably accuses the Journal of writing a hyperbolic piece that has the facts all wrong. It&#8217;s essentially correct. Google is doing nothing that Akamai doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t already do, and nothing that the ISPs and carriers don&#8217;t plan to do to reduce the load that P2P puts on their transit connections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A lot of questions remain about Google&#8217;s public policy flexibility and how wise their server farm strategy has been, and we&#8217;ll deal with them as Google answers our questions.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the miracle of trans-Atlantic collaborative journalism, here&#8217;s my quick take on Google&#8217;s caching scheme: Network Neutrality, the public policy unicorn that&#8217;s been the rallying cry for so many many on the American left for the last three years, took a body blow on Sunday with the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s disclosure that the movement&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/15\/my-google-piece-in-the-register\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My Google piece in The Register&#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":[7,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1nq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","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=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}