The Great Google Wall (June 27, 2016)
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K “I am found on Google, therefore I am; I am not found on Google, therefore I am not.”
J “If you are not making money for Google, you are not found on Google; if you are not found on Google, you do not exist. You are not.”
. . .
K “If Google does not deliver the site ‘above the fold,’ the site will ultimately fold. If Google consigns a site to the second page – the obituary page in digital media – the site is dead.”
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K “You could play one of those Will Shortz puzzler games. ‘Drop the word “ogle” which means “to look at amorously, flirtatiously, or impertinently” and add a “d” and what do you get? . . . God.’”
J “Google is the gateway to reality and the wall to existence.”
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K “Google has emerged as a natural monopoly in this the ‘Age of Monopoly.’ By definition, the free market cannot regulate a natural monopoly. A natural monopoly should be broken up or regulated.”
J “Google is our contemporary ‘Pa Bell’ much like ‘Ma Bell’ that dominated the telephone industry forty years ago. Google is a national public utility.”
K “And the United States Court of Appeals for The District of Columbia Circuit agrees.”
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[See “United States Telecom Ass’n v. Federal Communications Comm., No. 15-1063 (June 14, 2016).” and “Court Backs Rules Treating Internet as Utility, Not Luxury” by Cecilia King, June 14, 2016.]
[See the e-commentary at “Less Government Regulation Series: Google (November 30, 2009).”]
Bumper sticker of the week:
Google is God; net neutrality is good.
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