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You are hereOpen InternetWSJ "Googling 'Monopoly' Op-Ed SuperficialSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2007-08-21 13:56Google must be worried about their Doubleclick acquisition having arranged an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today entitled Googling 'Monopoly' by PFF President Tom Lenard and Emory University professor Paul Rubin.
First, let me say that I genuinely respect Mr Lenard and Mr. Rubin, and understand that on antitrust issues, analysts can honestly disagree on outcomes and impacts. Debunking more net neutrality revisionist historySubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2007-08-20 22:34Liberal blogger Matt Stoller of OpenLeft has a post at Save the Internet that lamely tries to rewrite "the history of net neutrality" in his commentary about his interview with FCC Commisioner Michael Copps. My oops on Google's oops in speaking out of school on mergerSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2007-08-20 12:52A couple of readers kindly pointed out that I made my own oops in my early August blog post: "Oops! Googleopolist's wife speaks out of school on pending merger." I regret any confusion I created in mistaking that "Google product manager" Susan Wojcicki" was married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin -- in fact she is the sister-in-law of Google co-founder Sergey Brin, and also one of the earliest employees of Google. Oops! Googleopolist's wife talks out of school on pending mergerSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-08-03 17:06The article quoted "Google product manager" Susan Wojcicki, (who also just recently married Google co-founder Sergey Brin), candidly defining the online ad market to reporters.
During a meeting with reporters, IBD quoted Ms. Wojcicki saying: Looks like Canada may review Google-DoubleClick along with FTC and ECSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-08-03 15:48It seems that our friends up North may also be concerned about the anti-competitive impact of the Google-Double-Click merger. CIPPIC, the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, is requesting that the Canadian authorities review the Google-Double-Click merger to determine if it is anti-competitive.
I've done a lot of work on the facts surrounding this merger case and am very confident that the more authorities learn about the facts of the case -- the more concerned and troubled they will get about the profound and broad implications this merger portends for the future of the Internet business model for accessing content. Who is America's most notorious scofflaw?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-08-02 18:26The outrage over Google-Youtube's complicity in rampant content theft and piracy continues to spread around the world.
Let's focus on the corporate scofflaw pattern here: American, Japanese, and European content owners accross a wide swath of content industries are all outraged and suing Google for theft. "Google-aganda:" Do as I say not as I do" See great Network World pieceSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2007-08-02 09:27Johna Till Johnson of Network World, has got Google's number in the article "Net Neutrality? Google, go first!"
FCC Chairman's welcome reiteration of opposition to net neutrality regulationsSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-08-01 14:31I wanted to commend and spotlight a critically important and completely under-reported/under-appreciated part of the FCC Chairman's statement on the 700 MHz auction released yesterday:
This is very important, welcome, commendable, and strong affirmation of the FCC's broad deregulation policy -- that was completely lost in the gaggle of press coverage. New broadband uncertainty -- is 700 MHz info? or telecom service?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-08-01 10:57There are so many problems with the FCC's new 700 MHz auction rules that create a more regulated open access/net neutrality license -- its hard to know where to start.
Yesterday I highlighted the dirty little secret that there is very substantial risk that this will become known as the "do over auction" because it may not raise enough money to satisfy the rules and because the FCC likely overstepped its legal authority and will be overturned in court. Let's raise another dirty little secret behind the new rules that will increase regulatory uncertainty for broadband deployment. The FCC's "Do Over" Auction?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2007-07-31 10:59A much under-reported part of the high drama behind the FCC's current 700 MHz auction rules is that there is a very substantial risk that this becomes known as the "do over" FCC auction. First, to any outside observer, the FCC's highly-tailored auction rules appear to have a pretty obvious "set aside" for the Google camp and its proposed net neutrality/open access business model for a third of the 700 MHz spectrum.
Second, there is substantial legal risk that the FCC does not have the authority to condition these licenses in a way that limits an "open" auction and substantially reduces the revenue for the US Treasury. Pages |