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

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: DV Henkel-Wallace <gumby () henkel-wallace org>
Date: April 10, 2010 10:11:02 PM EDT
To: Dossy Shiobara <dossy () panoptic com>
Cc: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] re ISP Accused of "Hijacking" Google Search Queries and Subscribers' DNS

Market choice works when there is choice.  My startup's new office is old industrial district close to a lower-income 
neighborhood.  I went looking for internet service and my _only_ choice is low-speed phone company DSL (they'll sell me 
higher speed, but the wiring is so cruddy that you get under 1.5 Mbps download.  And this is in Redwood City -- the 
middle of Silicon Valley!

4 miiles up the road in Palo Alto I have multiple providers spamming my doorknob and can get multi megabit service.  
But that class of service is apparently just for the swells.






> From: Dossy Shiobara <dossy () panoptic com>
> Date: April 10, 2010 4:05:50 PM EDT
>
> 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.







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