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How much is a "little" faster? Is that guaranteed? It seems like letting Wal-Mart control the toll booth on the turnpike. It's a dangerous first step.
by dhimes 18y ago
How much is a "little" faster? Is that guaranteed? It seems like letting Wal-Mart control the toll booth on the turnpike. It's a dangerous first step.
- yummyfajitas 18y agoIt seems like a closer analogy would be allowing walmart to build their own private roads to walmart stores.
- dhimes 18y agoYou may be right...until we see more details about how G intends to set their access up we may not be able to get the analogy quite right.
- mattmaroon 18y agoIf they're simply doing what Akamai is, then they're not degrading my service, which is fine by me. If a user is getting the same quality they get from everyone who is not through a major CDN when they use my site, that's fine. I can still win.
- dhimes 18y agoIt's the slippery-slope, or the "next step," that investor will want G to take that concerns me. I stumbled upon this: http://savetheinternet.com/=faq http://savetheinternet.com/=faq --a pretty good summary-- since my first post above. It is certainly something to keep our eyes on. Something the recent economic turn-of-events has convinced me of is that without oversight, investors can pressure companies, even benevolent companies, to do evil. It's our job as citizens to put safeguards in place to keep them from the opportunity to do so.