re ISP Accused of "Hijacking" Google Search Queries and Subscribers' DNS

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Dossy Shiobara <dossy () panoptic com>
> Date: April 10, 2010 4:05:50 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] ISP Accused of "Hijacking" Google Search Queries  
> and Subscribers' DNS

> Not regulation, but free market.  If customers find value in ISPs  
> doing
> this kind of DNS tampering, then those ISPs will prosper.  If  
> customers
> disapprove of the practice, they should *vote with their wallet* and
> those ISPs should be shuttered as they run out of customers.
>
> Regulation simply means enforcement of arbitrary (not necessarily
> _good_) decisions.  This can have an unanticipated negative impact on
> innovation, which isn't worth whatever perceived upside benefit
> pro-regulation might seem to bring.
>
>
> On 4/10/10 3:43 PM, David Farber wrote:
> > This is all yet another example of why moving toward reasonable
> > regulation of the Internet access industry is so critically  
> > important.
>
>
> --
> Dossy Shiobara              | dossy () panoptic com | http://dossy.org/
> Panoptic Computer Network   | http://panoptic.com/
>  "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
>    folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)



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