as originally stated I see it more like “filtering” than rationing…

As for Google wanting to stop bandwidth intensive services… I think their focus is on increasing the bandwidth capacity of the average American… among all things that Google has their hands in, their number one contribution to their bank account is advertisements…

yes they make money on building marketing data and services to sell to other companies… but this too would require more not less traffic…

We’re just around the corner from 100GBoE becoming standard networking… the wiring and cabling from the backbone to the trunks to the providers…

There are WAAAAYYYY too many players in the free market that depend on internet services…

for Google to have any sort of ability to lobby that kind of action… no matter how many dollars they spend….

the Banks alone are going to shell out any dollars to some internet authority just so they can update their databases worldwide in their thousands of networks and forests…

but nevertheless… Google has just shown their true colors… which is what this post was about… I think you’re right… they’re hypocrites… They also want some love from an administration that thinks they have runaway power…

My only suggestion is that we have much bigger battles to fight before the internet becomes rationed… or even filtered… those steps come later… much later in the roadmap to socialism to communism…

The left has been pushing the theory that if you aren’t perfect according to the worldview you have, you are a hypocrite, which makes all Christians hypocrites, and in fact makes a hypocrite almost anyone who has any standards of behavior for humanity at all. Which is of course ridiculous and makes the world meaningless.

And Google is allying with these people, becasue obviously for Google it’s a benefit if people don’t have to pay to use bandwidth-intensive services like YouTube.

If we run out of electricity to the point that the internet has to be rationed then we have much worse problems than worrying about access to the internet…

I don’t see it… you’ve got major players like Microsoft, Yahoo, hardware manufacturers and the businesses they support at an enterprise level… Dell, HP, IBM,… how about everyday portals and social networks… Ebay, Craigslist, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter?

For something like that to happen you would have to see Technology become obsolete in the life of the average American…

We’re talking something like a Solar flare from the Sun causing an EMP over North America that knocks out all modern forms of communication, and convenience… when Americans are desperate and seeking an end to street violence such as what happened during Katrina… only in mass scale that we give over our sovereignty to The UN temporarily with the President announcing some crisis of magnaminous proportion…

So Unless the jackboots are willing to point an EMP device at the infrastructure of America… then no I have a hard time buying your theory that the backbone of the internet becomes so old and decayed that the system gets overloaded…

If we get to that point… we’ve already become an outright Communist nation…

I think I got that whole concept down much easier than the Google stuff. Though, that’s all about trying to achieve dominance and monopolies with the Socialist government assistance.

Rationing of the Internet would do the same for most people’s ability to communicate over it.

Never mind, I know. Barney and Chris.

Result: As more people get online (because it’s “free” now, right?), the old, decaying system start to get overloaded.

Result: What you see on any freeway in southern California, only worse while freeways can’t drop cars, the Internet servers will start losing packets.

Result: rationing.

That’s the precise issue Net Neutrality movements were started over, and Google is complicit.