Comments on: Dept. of Justice Comes Down on Net Neutrality

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Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:22:57 +0000

[...] Other SEOs and marketing folk are discussing this issue. Jordan McCollum at Marketing Pilgrim is on it (funny… my girlfriend’s last name is McCollum too!) . Her write-up includes this killer [...]

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:03:34 +0000

@Gab: Neat idea. I’ll have to bring it up with Andy.

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:55:15 +0000

I was disappointed when I heard the news the other day, though I can’t say I was surprised.

I think it’s another case of greedy telecoms and clueless government coming to together to make a bad decision.

By: Gab

Gab — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:57:31 +0000

Hey, since they’re in the 25%, why don’t we make a video of this and make fun of them on Youtube? I could easily see that going viral… Interested in an interview?

By: Net Neutrality, SEO and Internet Marketing Hit by DoJ

Net Neutrality, SEO and Internet Marketing Hit by DoJ — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 23:49:29 +0000

Update: Other SEOs and marketing folk are discussing this issue. Jordan McCollum at Marketing Pilgrim is on it (funny… my girlfriend’s last name is McCollum too!) . Her write-up includes this killer quote, also discussing the likelihood that video users will be hit:

“Oh, wait. According to comScore, that would be 75% of US Internet users, or 132 million people (that would also be about 44% of the total US population). So three-quarters of Internet users should pay more to keep getting what they’ve been getting so that the other one-quarter can pay the same for the features that they’re not using?”

By: Joeychgo

Joeychgo — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:13:50 +0000

This was little more then an attempt to get more money into the hands of the telecom companies.

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:56:48 +0000

B&S—Maybe. But this comment on Google Blogscoped insightfully points out that lots of other nations would be impacted.

By: Buy and sell

Buy and sell — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:51:38 +0000

So i guess if this does happen eventually only Americans will be affected?

By: Riotz

Riotz — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 14:00:03 +0000

“the people at the DoJ (or at least the ones who wrote this, since I’m sure some of them are over on YouTube right now) are in the 25%.”

I think the DOJ is still using dumb terminals and Lynx

By: Allen Taylor

Allen Taylor — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:17:40 +0000

I don’t know what the legal term for “none of your business” is, but “laissez faire” is French for “leave us alone.” That could be construed as “none of your business.”

By: Jordan McCollum

Jordan McCollum — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:28:25 +0000

ex parte: “On behalf of only one party, without notice to any other party. For example, a request for a search warrant is an ex parte proceeding, since the person subject to the search is not notified of the proceeding and is not present at the hearing.”

As far as I’ve seen, there was no deadline they were meeting, so I don’t think it was late. However, I’m trying to figure out what the legal term for “None of your business” is.

By: Feldspar McCrae

Feldspar McCrae — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:45:36 +0000

The DOJ’s opinion was ex parte (late) because they were holding out for more cash from the mega-corporations.

By: Feldspar McCrae

Feldspar McCrae — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:42:28 +0000

I smell payoffs. Big corporations and every level of politics are all about graft.