{"id":1590,"date":"2009-10-26T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T14:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2009-10-26T10:39:05","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T14:39:05","slug":"google-chief-fears-internet-overregulation-yet-favors-net-neutrality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/1590\/google-chief-fears-internet-overregulation-yet-favors-net-neutrality\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chief Fears Internet Overregulation… Yet Favors Net “Neutrality?”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a contradiction to chew on for a while:\u00a0 Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt tells The Washington Post<\/em> that he’s wary about destructive overregulation<\/a> of the Internet…\u00a0 Yet he simultaneously favors so-called Net “Neutrality?”<\/p>\n

According to Mr. Schmidt, “it is possible for the government to screw up the Internet, bigtime.”\u00a0 The article reports that he went so far as to say that “it would be a terrible idea for the government to involve itself as a regulator of the broader Internet.”<\/p>\n

We couldn’t have said it better ourselves.<\/p>\n

But how can Mr. Schmidt square his accurate concern about destructive Internet regulation with his advocacy of Net “Neutrality,” which would needlessly introduce federal rules into Internet service for the first time?\u00a0 Stated simply, he can’t.\u00a0 Nevertheless, he and Google foolishly advocate Net “Neutrality” because they believe it serves their short-term corporate interest.\u00a0 Of course, the insurance and pharmaceutical industries initially believed the same thing about ObamaCare, before belatedly recognizing the toxic longer-term reality…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a contradiction to chew on for a while:\u00a0 Google’s chief executive Eric Schmidt tells The Washington Post that he’s wary about destructive overregulation of the Internet…\u00a0 Yet he simultaneously favors so-called Net “Neutrality?” According to Mr. Schmidt, “it is possible for the government to screw up the Internet, bigtime.”\u00a0 The article reports that he […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,102,362,148,363],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-deficit","tag-free-market","tag-google","tag-net-neutrality","tag-overregulation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1592,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}