<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Hardly a monopoly. Duo, tri or a few more poly. Bing for example does have a decent market share.</div><div><br></div><div>Any non neutrality in search should be initially at any rate handled as a private litigation. Because starting to regulate google is the thin end of the wedge when it comes to regulating other Internet industry players to the extent that telcos are regulated</div><div><br></div><div>And a precedent that other countries will seize on, with potentially worse results</div><div><br></div><div>--srs (iPad)</div><div><br>On 05-Jan-2013, at 15:30, parminder <<a href="mailto:parminder@itforchange.net">parminder@itforchange.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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A very interesting take on FTC's decisions on google<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/opinion/is-google-like-gas-or-like-steel.html?_r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/opinion/is-google-like-gas-or-like-steel.html?_r=0</a>
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The article raises the right question - whether some parts of our
digital environment deserve to be treated as public utilities - due
to (1) the extent of monopoly and (2) the very important 'public
function(s)' being performed. <br>
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I do not agree with the conclusion of the authors that any kind of
search neutrality obligations would hurt free expression objectives.
To me, the contrary is true.<br>
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How much ever I disagree with its conclusions, the article touches
the deeper issues pertaining to search for the right paradigms that
should inform Internet governance.... Most commentaries around WCIT,
and even the almost solo fixation with multistakeholderism, just
scratch the surface, often misleadingly. The real issues are
somewhere else and, unfortunately, have not received the needed
attention of civil society.<br>
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parminder <br>
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