Reading some of this is rather disturbing, like if we live in some kind of control freak society, where every comment is we are trying to control terrorism so we must eliminate everyones right of expression and distort every means of communication including the internet. I disagree that companies should be harmed because of elements within a given state of these United States should have any power to regulate what any corporation like google does or does not do, just because they lack any talent to compete at all and I support now more than ever this effort... Google lobbies Congress for a 'free' internet http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2143440/google-beefs-lobbying-efforts -Henry --- Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:26:54 EDT, Sean Donelan said:
rankings of its search results, I assume a government regulatory agency will be able to issue orders and control how Google operates its bottleneck search infrastructure to provide fair, neutral and transparent, in the government agency's opinion, of google's operations?
Go to Google. Enter "googlebombing". Follow the first link. Read what happened on June 2, 2005.
Evaluate the chances of the government enforcing *actual* "fair, neutral, and transparent" operations.