Is a major factor in the battle over net neutrality the consolidation of the industry by companies like Google? History suggests that after a period of development the market tends to consolidate and it consolidates with companies that make things simpler. From the author –

The question today is whether this is happening again, and if the Internet is slowly becoming monopolized. Here, think Google, with 70 or 80% of global search volume. Likewise, in social networking, Facebook has become predominant. Apple’s iTunes rules content download in the music sector. We’re consolidating.

See what you think. Read the article and ask yourself if consolidation makes the end of net neutrality inevitable.

James Pilant

The FCC recently cast its vote in creating a net neutrality law.  Basically, this means it’s illegal for a major carrier, say Verizon or AT&T or any of the others, to block or tamper with the speeds of content providers.  In an example posited by Tim Wu, the Columbia Law professor who is said to have originally coined the term “net neutrality,” it would prevent, say, Verizon in partnership with, say, Google speeding up YouTube while slowing d … Read More

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