unchecked corporations run like the egos of their leaders... that is to say grandioseness bordering on self-deification.
"(Bellsouth CTO Bill) Smith, echoing recent sentiments by AT&T Inc. chief executive Edward E. Whitacre Jr., responded that network operators must be free to control the type and quality of service on the system in which they have invested heavily.
Legislating otherwise "would be the same thing as saying to Google, 'I think we ought to have regulation on Google that says when I enter a search term, the top search result is always a random event,' " Smith said, claiming that Google allows clients to pay to influence the ranking of search results. In fact, Google does not allow payments to influence general search results, although advertisers pay for top billing on the lists that run on the right side of Google's pages."
It's amazing how little the "chief technology officer" knows about technology... it's like the f*cker thinks it's actually his data. In reality, it's mine and yours, and it doesn't belong to the network operators. Keep an eye on this one, kids... it's insidious.
peace,
jenni
