Google has been running off of their slogan “Do no Evil” since the company was founded. After people found out that Google and Verizon were having talks about neutrality and what came out from it people started turning their backs on Google thinking they had done evil finally. For people that have no idea what I’m talking about, Google was having talks with Verizon about net neutrality and how to solve it. Google and Verizon supposable decided that the land lines like DSL and FIOS would not have any kind of traffic shaping at all but wireless would be allowed to priorities there traffic. Basically what they’re saying if you’re watching a streaming video online form your FIOS or DSL line Verizon can’t just slow that down to speed up peoples VOIP calls. But on a cell phone if you are watching a streaming video they could slow that down to so that maybe people can load a web app faster.
Because of that people have though that Google has sold out the open internet and that just is not true and if anything I think something happen during those talks that we have not herd. What makes me think this is a paragraph that of a blog post Google posted called Facts about our network neutrality policy proposal on the Google blog which says “MYTH: This proposal would eliminate network neutrality over wireless. FACT: It’s true that Google previously has advocated for certain openness safeguards to be applied in a similar fashion to what would be applied to wireline services. However, in the spirit of compromise, we have agreed to a proposal that allows this market to remain free from regulation for now, while Congress keeps a watchful eye.” The whole part about spirit of compromise makes me think that Verizon may have threatened Google somehow causing them to just let wireless go. I for one have a crazy conspiracy but about what could have happen. Verizon could be in talks right now with Apple to start selling iPhones on Verizon and so during the net neutrality talks Verizon could have said ok about the wirelines but the wireless stuff no and Google pushed and pushed and Verizon said we will pull Android phones off Verizon and sell iPhones instead. Now that’s just all theory and who knows what happen during their talks but I really do feel that Verizon did something to make Google allow that in the deal.
So is Google evil should we be exporting all our information out of Google, boycott there services, and run to the hills? No I don’t think so; I think that somehow some way Google was forced to agree to this wireless part of the deal. They probably felt that it was better to agree on this and then fight to get it changed latter on instead of the whole thing just falling apart on them. Google still is not evil and its safe to return to your normal lives.
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