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You are hereLet's see how principled Google's Open Internet Coalition is on protecting free speech
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2007-10-15 11:06
How timely for the Google-backed Open Internet Coalition to be writing Congress asking for Congressional hearings on allegations of censorship of free speech on the Internet.
However, there is now a new twist to the issue. The Open Internet Coalition's leader, Google, has blocked, and still is blocking, the most obvious form of political free speech, by blocking U.S. Senator Susan Collins' anti-Moveon.org ads from Google. It will be interesting to hear how Google/Open Internet coalition respond to Congressional inquiries on Google's ongoing censorship of political free speech.
Only in Googleland, where regulatory special treatment is expected and the normal laws and rules that apply to everyone else supposedly don't apply to the perfect "don't be evil" Google, would Google expect these Google-lobbied-for free speech hearings to not involve questions of Google's respect for free speech. I applaud the savvy of Google/Open Internet Coaltion for sending their free speech letter to:
Bottomline: Time will tell whether the Google/SavetheInternet/FreePress crowd really supports free speech or is just engaged in very selective political grandstanding to forward their net neutrality agenda.
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