{"id":193000,"date":"2009-01-28T22:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T03:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/28\/google-sets-trap-for-cable-isps\/"},"modified":"2009-01-28T22:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T03:16:00","slug":"google-sets-trap-for-cable-isps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/28\/google-sets-trap-for-cable-isps\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Sets Trap for Cable ISPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m not sure if it is a trap, per se, since they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSTRE50R6W020090128\">announced its creation with a press release<\/a>, but it certainly is a shot across the bow directed primarily at Comcast.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Google Inc on Wednesday unveiled a plan aimed at eventually letting computer users determine whether providers like Comcast Corp are inappropriately blocking or slowing their work online.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Google will provide academic researchers with 36 servers in 12 locations in the United States and Europe to analyze data, said its chief Internet guru, Vint Cerf, known as the &#8220;father of the Internet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google Inc on Wednesday unveiled a plan aimed at eventually letting computer users determine whether providers like Comcast Corp are inappropriately blocking or slowing their work online.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme is the latest bid in the debate over network neutrality, which pits content companies like Google against some Internet service providers.<\/p>\n<p>The ISPs say they need to take reasonable steps to manage ever-growing traffic on their networks for the good of all users. Content and applications companies fear the providers have the power to discriminate, favoring some traffic over others.<\/p>\n<p>Google will provide academic researchers with 36 servers in 12 locations in the United States and Europe to analyze data, said its chief Internet guru, Vint Cerf, known as the &#8220;father of the Internet.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My guess is the first thing that they will discover is that Comcast is crippling competing VOIP applications, I&#8217;ve already heard reports of this anecdotally.<\/p>\n<p>Bringing in Cerf was a masterstroke of publicity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I&#8217;m not sure if it is a trap, per se, since they announced its creation with a press release, but it certainly is a shot across the bow directed primarily at Comcast. Google Inc on Wednesday unveiled a plan aimed at eventually letting computer users determine whether providers like Comcast Corp are inappropriately blocking &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997,985],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-regulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193000"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}