Comments on: Are Google, Lessig and Obama weakening support of Net Neutrality? And how about the e-book angles? http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/are-obama-google-and-even-larry-lessig-weakening-support-of-net-neutrality/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:02:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/are-obama-google-and-even-larry-lessig-weakening-support-of-net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-984407 David Rothman Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:41:09 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/12/14/are-obama-google-and-even-larry-lessig-weakening-support-of-net-neutrality/#comment-984407 Thanks, Garson. Since you're a regular contributor, I've moved your update to the main section of the blog. If the WSJ piece is wrong, which I now suspect it is, could the hand of Rupert Murdoch be in this, directly or indirectly? Or is it just an honest mistake? At any rate, I'm glad I used a question mark in the headline over the original post ;-). David Thanks, Garson. Since you’re a regular contributor, I’ve moved your update to the main section of the blog. If the WSJ piece is wrong, which I now suspect it is, could the hand of Rupert Murdoch be in this, directly or indirectly? Or is it just an honest mistake? At any rate, I’m glad I used a question mark in the headline over the original post ;-) .

David

]]> By: Garson O'Toole http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/are-obama-google-and-even-larry-lessig-weakening-support-of-net-neutrality/comment-page-1/#comment-984365 Garson O'Toole Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:29:40 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/12/14/are-obama-google-and-even-larry-lessig-weakening-support-of-net-neutrality/#comment-984365 Responses to the Wall Street Journal article are now appearing. The Google Public Policy Blog which has the subtitle “Google’s Views on government, policy and politics” is presenting an article by Richard Whitt, the Washington Telecom and Media Counsel, titled <a HREF="http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2008/12/net-neutrality-and-benefits-of-caching.html" rel="nofollow">”Net neutrality and the benefits of caching”</A>. The GigaOm blog is running a story <a HREF="http://gigaom.com/2008/12/14/google-turns-its-back-on-network-neutrality/" rel="nofollow">”Google NOT Turning Its Back on Network Neutrality”</A> by proprietor Om Malik:<blockquote>In response to an earlier story in The Wall Street Journal, Google offered a clarification and reaffirmed its stance on network neutrality and pointed out that it is not backing away from it. It has dismissed the WSJ story as confused. Instead, Google explained that the OpenEdge effort (the subject of the WSJ story) was a plan to peer its edge-caching devices directly with the network operators so that the users of those broadband carriers get faster access to Google and YouTube’s content. “Google has offered to “colocate” caching servers within broadband providers’ own facilities; this reduces the provider’s bandwidth costs since the same video wouldn’t have to be transmitted multiple times,” Richard Whitt, Google’s Washington Telecom and Media Counsel wrote on company’s Policy blog. </blockquote> Larry Lessig is responding on his own blog with a piece called <a HREF="http://lessig.org/blog/2008/12/the_madeup_dramas_of_the_wall.html" rel="nofollow">”The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal”</A>. But I cannot read the item right now because the hosting server is not responding. The beginning states:<blockquote>I got off the plane from Boston to find my inbox filled with anger about an article in the Wall Street Journal. To those who were angry, I hope you will direct any anger at the Wall Street Journal after you read what follows.</blockquote> Responses to the Wall Street Journal article are now appearing. The Google Public Policy Blog which has the subtitle “Google’s Views on government, policy and politics” is presenting an article by Richard Whitt, the Washington Telecom and Media Counsel, titled ”Net neutrality and the benefits of caching”.

The GigaOm blog is running a story ”Google NOT Turning Its Back on Network Neutrality” by proprietor Om Malik:

In response to an earlier story in The Wall Street Journal, Google offered a clarification and reaffirmed its stance on network neutrality and pointed out that it is not backing away from it. It has dismissed the WSJ story as confused. Instead, Google explained that the OpenEdge effort (the subject of the WSJ story) was a plan to peer its edge-caching devices directly with the network operators so that the users of those broadband carriers get faster access to Google and YouTube’s content.

“Google has offered to “colocate” caching servers within broadband providers’ own facilities; this reduces the provider’s bandwidth costs since the same video wouldn’t have to be transmitted multiple times,” Richard Whitt, Google’s Washington Telecom and Media Counsel wrote on company’s Policy blog.

Larry Lessig is responding on his own blog with a piece called ”The made-up dramas of the Wall Street Journal”. But I cannot read the item right now because the hosting server is not responding. The beginning states:

I got off the plane from Boston to find my inbox filled with anger about an article in the Wall Street Journal. To those who were angry, I hope you will direct any anger at the Wall Street Journal after you read what follows.

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