{"id":4539,"date":"2006-06-08T17:11:57","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T17:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/george-ou-on-net-neutrality.html"},"modified":"2006-06-08T17:11:57","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T17:11:57","slug":"george-ou-on-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/george-ou-on-net-neutrality.html","title":{"rendered":"George Ou on Net Neutrality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>George does a great job <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/Ou\/?p=242\"><span>explaining his views on net neutrality.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/a>his views on net neutrality.<em>The amount of political rhetoric coming from the Net neutrality crowd is at a fever pitch.&nbsp;From MoveOn.org to SaveTheInternet.com practicing their brand of scare the public to a self-interest driven &quot;do-no-evil&quot; Google, the consistent message we&#8217;re getting is this:<\/p>\n<p>Internet Telco providers will control what you see on the net <br \/>There will be a two tiered Internet <\/p>\n<p>Google or other websites might respond at a snails pace or work at all <\/p>\n<p>Voice over IP telephony providers will be shut out <\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s needed is an intelligent and balanced debate on this topic, but the issue as represented by many in the media has been largely one sided. Instead of seeing this as a battle of large corporations between companies like Google and AT&amp;T, we are suppose to believe that it is just the &quot;evil&quot; Telco companies and the &quot;evil&quot; politicians they paid off opposing Net neutrality against the people. If we are suppose to start with this premise, then we may as well not even have a debate since we&#8217;ve demonized any and all opposition to begin with<\/em><em><\/p>\n<p><span>Continued.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George does a great job explaining his views on net neutrality. his views on net neutrality.The amount of political rhetoric coming from the Net neutrality crowd is at a fever pitch.&nbsp;From MoveOn.org to SaveTheInternet.com practicing their brand of scare the public to a self-interest driven &quot;do-no-evil&quot; Google, the consistent message we&#8217;re getting is this: Internet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[249,920,17],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}