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Tech CEOs and founders: Keep the Internet open!

Monday, October 19, 2009
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18 comments :

  1. RFCOctober 19, 2009 at 2:06 PM

    great! and why we don't extend this freedom to the rest of the market, letting costumers free to choose!

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  2. UnknownOctober 19, 2009 at 2:15 PM

    If I, as a normal consumer and Internet advocate, can add my name to the list, then so be it. Josh Armstrong, Web designer, photographer with 1000wordsmedia.com, and Husband/Dad.

    Let the Internet be free and open.

    Dream big. Live Loud.

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  3. GhostyOctober 19, 2009 at 2:30 PM

    Awesome.

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  4. UnknownOctober 19, 2009 at 2:48 PM

    It is great to se Google behind an initiative like this. Separating the internet into bulks where the one who pays the most gets priority is an attack against democracy.

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  5. tylerOctober 19, 2009 at 3:36 PM

    if only the physical market had such support to be free.

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  6. kozakiOctober 19, 2009 at 3:48 PM

    Yaisse ! On ne pourrait être plus d'accord.

    Simply couldn't agree more! Now am just surprised some of those companies did violate this principle on occasions, e.g. with dictatorial States.
    So it's time to let those other 5.000.000.000 people -that do not yet have an access to the web- enter the game and improve it with their needs & creativity, isn't it?

    kozaki | lliseil

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  7. ®Diseño DixitalOctober 19, 2009 at 4:04 PM

    He is impressive that the giants of Internet now defend what they have dedicated themselves to block, the open Internet and the opportunity for all. But it is important to make notice that they have soiled the network with his ambition and the pages esyan 'graffiteadas' by announcements of all nature, google and its famous virus googleUpdate that is intrusive and not even stops if the user wants to disappear it of his equipment, the lack of standard in us navigators by economic ambitions have produced all a battle where the developers must fight to make their applications with the majority, accepting compatible applications in a navigator and not in others, giving support in sites for developer, or products and soon disappearing them because they are gratuitous and when up a level of then business the ambition already wins to them. To who they want to deceive with his ambition to seize of the network with his Cloud Computing and to leave outside to which we worked developing enterprise applications. We are not deceived, Internet is a business and the market is here and the great vultures are ready to swallow all the booty. But at least please, respect the privacy and the rights of the users.

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  8. AnonymousOctober 19, 2009 at 4:13 PM

    Awesome, so much respect for you guys.

    Keep the internet open.

    -Dane Shea

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  9. zelrikOctober 19, 2009 at 5:17 PM

    Keep the internet open, do not cripple technology but embrace it. Not not fight change when change is inevitable.

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  10. UnknownOctober 19, 2009 at 8:32 PM

    Yeah, to heck with the companies that built the infrastructure bringing the internet to your house..........
    If you regulate them too much, and they go under..........wait, they probably fall into that too big to fail category and the government will own the internet too.

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  11. AnonymousOctober 20, 2009 at 7:03 AM

    Bone touched on exactly what I've been thinking. In early '08 I saw net neutrality as the "thing to do" to protect consumers. Recent events have caused me to re-evaluate my position. No matter who is in charge, government abuses its power. Given the opportunity our government will take control of the net in order to silence its opposition. The free market must be allowed to operate in order to assure an open internet. If an ISP behaves abusively they will lose customers to their competition.

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  12. Rajesh ShenoyOctober 20, 2009 at 8:19 AM

    Isn't this a little too utopian for comfort? By the same token, we could abolish toll highways too, or varying speeds according to broadband rate plan. It just isn't very practical. There should always be differentiation towards those who are ready to pay more. *That* is freedom. *That* is a win for end consumers! I'd be very happy if broadband providers go net-neutral because of market pressures. But regulatory mandates? I'd say no.

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  13. Syndicated MapsOctober 20, 2009 at 11:01 AM

    A VoIP based system could be ad supported and make carriers a lot more money while at the same time fixing all of the millions of cell phone dead zones see http://deadcellzones.com. I don't think the management teams at the wireless carriers really understand the power and scale of location based advertising. They are just scared to cannibalize their money printing machines.

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  14. The Great RobertoOctober 20, 2009 at 4:39 PM

    What Rajesh Shenoy said!

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  15. MontanaOctober 21, 2009 at 2:46 PM

    Oh how sweet..now google is sucking up to this White House to take away more of our freedoms. How stupid do you think the American Public is? Have you forgotten what Iran did to their internet when their citizens took to the street?
    FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, President Barack Obama, and the rest of the radical left want to use the Net Neutrality movement as the crisis that gives cover to sweeping big government action, allowing the FCC to pick winners and losers and dictate to private individuals and firms how their private property must be run, putting government bureaucrats in charge of the Internet.

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  16. MontanaOctober 21, 2009 at 2:53 PM

    Oh how sweet..now google is sucking up to this White House to take away more of our freedoms. How stupid do you think the American Public is? Have you forgotten what Iran did to their internet when their citizens took to the street?
    FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski, President Barack Obama, and the rest of the radical left want to use the Net Neutrality movement as the crisis that gives cover to sweeping big government action, allowing the FCC to pick winners and losers and dictate to private individuals and firms how their private property must be run, putting government bureaucrats in charge of the Internet.

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  17. AnonymousOctober 24, 2009 at 1:06 AM

    Right now, net neutrality seems like an attractive option. Government enforced net neutrality, however, may turn out different than we would hope to expect. Up to now, the work in building the internet infrastructure has been impressive. The positive aspects of the internet that we enjoy daily have come from individuals being innovative and pragmatic. What will the next generation of innovation look like? I don't know. But I think it will be best fostered by creative individuals dedicated to positive principles, and not by a pattern of government regulation.

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  18. MONICA SHARMANovember 16, 2009 at 6:56 AM

    Awesome, so much respect for you guys.

    Keep the internet open.

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