A deregulated Internet creates jobs, Microsoft answers Google attacks

The free market of Internet access, driven by constantly improving innovation and heightening competition, is a driver of job creation and economic growth. Even Julius Genachowski, Obama’s FCC Chairman, has to admit that. This is just one reason we fight FCC power grabs.

So when the government starts talking about new regulations in emerging fields just as “cloud computing”, just say no.

So you may have heard that Google is whining pathetically that Apple and Microsoft are big meany poopyheads using patents after a fashion that’s so totally unfair to Google and stuff. They should be made to share, in short Google is threatening to tell nanny Government, to all appearances. Does my tone sound a bit condescending to Google’s recent complaints? If so, it’s because I agree with Brian Hall who very harshly executes a perfect takedown of Google.

Fast developing research

Facial recognition is a fast developing research, and Facebook’s use of it just got banned in Germany. We shall see just if or how Facebook responds to this. They evidently want to keep using the innovation, and hope as few people as possible opt out. It’s a global Internet, taking everything into account.

When ICANN announced it’d be selling new top level domains, and the rest), I called it a cash grab, and a questionable decision. It turns out there’s an upside although. Some are worried that big companies will lose control of their names, opening the door for easier creation of parody and criticism sites. When the Internet is egalitarian, it does so then.