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Google's growing silence on net neutrality

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Courtesy of Bloomberg:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-07-08/google-waning-on-net-neturality-leaves-fight-to-startups.html

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Google Inc. (GOOG), once boastful that it was the leading defender of a
free and open Internet, has gone into the shadows.

Since the Federal Communications Commission proposed in May to let
cable and telephone companies offer special Internet fast lanes for
companies willing to pay extra, lobbyists for Google haven’t visited
the agency to intervene, FCC records show. Facebook Inc. (FB), the
largest social network, also has been absent.

It’s a stark change from eight years ago, when Google ran
advertisements that called for treating all Web traffic equally, asked
its users to contact senators on the issue and dispatched co-founder
Sergey Brin to Washington to lobby lawmakers.

“They’ve definitely faded into the background, and that’s very
troubling,” said Paul Sieminski, general counsel of San Francisco-based
Automattic Inc., the publisher of the WordPress blogging platform. “A
lot of tech companies look to Google.”
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RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>

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Google's growing silence on net neutrality RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-07-08 16:56 +0000

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