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Google to WSJ: I Got Yer Dumb Pipes Right Here…

in News on December 15, 2008 at 8:02 am PT

Ironic, isn’t it, that Google, one of Net neutrality’s staunchest advocates, has been approaching major cable and phone companies with a proposal that appears to violate the very tenets of that principle? How could a company that has argued tirelessly that all Internet traffic should be treated equally, suddenly reverse course and seek preferential treatment for its own traffic? Short answer: it didn’t.