[governance] FW: [IP] Google's Lawyers Work Behind the Scenes to Carry the Day - NYTimes.com

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Hardly a monopoly. Duo, tri or a few more poly.  Bing for example does have a decent market share.

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

And a precedent that other countries will seize on, with potentially worse results

--srs (iPad)

On 05-Jan-2013, at 15:30, parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:

> 
> A very interesting take on FTC's decisions on google
> 
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/opinion/is-google-like-gas-or-like-steel.html?_r=0 
> 
> 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. 
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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.
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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.
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> parminder 
> 
> 
> On Friday 04 January 2013 08:42 PM, michael gurstein wrote:
>> From: Dave Farber [mailto:dave at farber.net] 
>> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 5:35 AM
>> To: ip
>> Subject: [IP] Google’s Lawyers Work Behind the Scenes to Carry the Day - NYTimes.com
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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/04/technology/googles-lawyers-work-behind-the-scenes-to-carry-the-day.html?hp
>>  
>> note last paragraph
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