There Goes the Internet

[randolph]

A free and open internet is extremely uncomfortable for politicians. At last the public can find out what they are up to behind our backs. Bureaucrats are right now watching what we are saying on the internet. So far there is not much else they can do to control the flow of information. Even Wikileaks has gotten away with releasing extremely sensitive information. Other countries are not willing to put up with that (China, Iran, etc.).

The first step in control would be allowing the media companies to selectivity regulate the broadband aspects of the internet, this must be resisted at all costs.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by randolph

The first step in control would be allowing the media companies to selectivity regulate the broadband aspects of the internet, this must be resisted at all costs.

This is what regulating the internet is advertised to do. In light of what FCC commissioner, Robert McDowell said about applying the Fairness Doctrine to the internet, the fear is that regulation will simply go from corporations to the government. And governments are a whole lot better at %$#@ things up than corporations are.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

This is what regulating the internet is advertised to do. In light of what FCC commissioner, Robert McDowell said about applying the Fairness Doctrine to the internet, the fear is that regulation will simply go from corporations to the government. And governments are a whole lot better at %$#@ things up than corporations are.

The only interest corporations have in the internet is MAKING MONEY, ie Google. No doubt there are big bucks to be made on the internet, particularly if you can control it. Google already controls to some extent what we look at by monitoring what we log onto and then "customizing" our searches.
Check out the Blekko search engine and see how different the list of porn sites is, that turns up, compared to Google.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by randolph

The only interest corporations have in the internet is MAKING MONEY, ie Google. No doubt there are big bucks to be made on the internet, particularly if you can control it. Google already controls to some extent what we look at by monitoring what we log onto and then "customizing" our searches.
Check out the Blekko search engine and see how different the list of porn sites is, that turns up, compared to Google.

Indeed... Type 'Obamacare' in Google. The first thing that comes up is www.healthcare.gov. That's not because of any search algorithm at Google. It's because Obama is using your tax dollars to advertise his heath plan.

[randolph]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

Indeed... Type 'Obamacare' in Google. The first thing that comes up is www.healthcare.gov. That's not because of any search algorithm at Google. It's because Obama is using your tax dollars to advertise his heath plan.

Tracy, do you have any evidence whatsoever that the government has placed healthcare.gov at the top of a Google search?
Its there because the Google algorithm has detected its popularity as related to a search for Obamacare. Try a search for trannycare and see what happens.

[TracyCoxx]

Originally Posted by randolph

Tracy, do you have any evidence whatsoever that the government has placed healthcare.gov at the top of a Google search?
Its there because the Google algorithm has detected its popularity as related to a search for Obamacare. Try a search for trannycare and see what happens.

I embedded the link discussing it in what I wrote. It's here http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...ts_525959.html

[randolph]

Originally Posted by TracyCoxx

I embedded the link discussing it in what I wrote. It's here http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/...ts_525959.html

Of course, if you type in *.gov you will get a list of government sites. Try typing in obamacare and you a bunch of other sites, not a *.gov site.
I think this stuff about the gov. rigging Google is BS.
If the gov. wanted to influence the pub. about healthcare, surly they would have paid to have "obamacare" at the top of the list of a search.

[Trogdor]

Originally Posted by randolph

The only interest corporations have in the internet is MAKING MONEY, ie Google. No doubt there are big bucks to be made on the internet, particularly if you can control it. Google already controls to some extent what we look at by monitoring what we log onto and then "customizing" our searches.
Check out the Blekko search engine and see how different the list of porn sites is, that turns up, compared to Google.

Corporations also like controlling you.
Ted Turner once said that "power is better than sex".

And just look at how China handles internet.
We'll be next if we are not careful.

[ila]

Originally Posted by Trogdor

...Ted Turner once said that "power is better than sex"...

Was he still married to Jane Fonda when he said that?