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Google CEO: We Need Gov't Regulation of Internet Service Providers
 
Published by kidmercuryblog
09-04-2008

Google CEO: We Need Gov't Regulation of Internet Service Providers

Regulation does not work, especially when the regulators are criminals. The free market provides all the regulation needed. -- KM

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Google CEO Eric Schmidt says government regulation of Internet service providers (ISPs) is necessary. In fact, he said he thinks the entire concept of the Internet marketplace relies on it.

Schmidt spoke to conservative bloggers at the Republican National Convention on September 3 in St. Paul, Minn. He warned that if an Internet service provider were too large, it could use its size to create a “protected structure within the Internet” and suggested that would restrict competition – giving some content favorable treatment within its network.

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