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One of the wilder stories circulating about Google's business deals, and the one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst the Public Knowledge and Free Press Advocacy conspiracy groups is that Verizon, their longtime foe in the Capitol Hill net neutrality policy battle is "blocking" Google Wallet customers from downloading the application, and therefore exhibiting "anti-competitive, anti-consumer" behavior.
Conspiracy theorists were never a group of people to be bothered by facts. These crackpots even contend that Verizon is practicing carrier limitation and that the agreement had nothing to do with an existing business deal.
"When Google's own business deals with Sprint precluded it from being featured in the new Verizon smartphone and even more interesting that these kooks seem to have missed is that Google requested that Verizon not make the wallet function available with its upcoming round of Samsung Android phones because Google is locked into an existing exclusive business deal with Sprint, therefore any dummy would understand that Google Wallet would only be available through Sprint." "Net Neutrality" on The Daily Caller
Michael J. Morris thinks that the Net Neutrality proponents are delusional [I agree] because there really isn't a Net Neutrality problem. He points out:
"If Verizon starts slowing content from Google, you can bet AT&T will be beating down Google's door to sell them bandwidth. At the consumer end, there is DSL, cable modem, wireless, and others. Only collusion of major ISPs (illegal, see Sherman Act) could have a global Internet effect."
In other words it's the Marketplace, stupid.
"Net Neutrality Proponents Must Rely on Hypotheticals. Yeah, it sounds bad....scary. Too bad it hasn't happened yet. Five years later with the explosion of Google, Youtube, Facebook, and the millions of other websites and videos, and still no "slowing" on the Internet by ISPs. Amazing! No problem ever existed and the free market mentality of the Internet has kept it that way."
No problem ever existed and the free market mentality of the Internet has kept it that way.
Michael Morris should have written: No problem ever existed because the Internet market mentality of FREE, has kept it that way.
Wordpress, Firefox and Google supports the "law of free supply and demand:" When the supply is free, it creates nearly ubiquitous demand. [1]
Are you confused? Don't worry so is everyone else because the Internet and cell Phones, which are FREE, economically make no cents.
Why are surfing, texting, talking and emailing virtually free? Where are the Pigs at the trough, and why isn't Wall Street shafting Main Street?
We are conditioned to believe everything is about money, power, greed and corruption. Therefore we are not aware of the great lengths to which the six companies that control 96% of the media go to sell a Corporatocracy (a non-conspiracy term) driven agenda.
An agenda, to make sure we never suspect electromagnetic pollution is the goal and not the unintended consequence of the World Wide Web and Cellphonemania. [2]
The 1%ers spent $1 trillion because they are determined (supported below) to collapse the Earth's magnetic field with a magnetic dipole field reversal.
The net and your smartphone, powerful enough to send a man to the moon, are electromagnetic nightmares for the Earth. [3]
