In a new story about an old story– “Rumours mount over Google’s internet plan,” we learn a little more about Google’s plan to stick it to yet another popular enemy of the little guy–telcos, while simultaneously advancing they’re not-so-secret plans for world domination. By purchasing up massive amounts of currently unused fiber (shorthand for “fiber optic”) cabling that digitally connects cities across the US and other nations, Google may be able to sidestep the telecoms most recent attempt to cram metered billing down our throat. Just a recap for the short-memoried folks–They’ve tried, at various points in time, to convince Congress and consumers that we need to pay for phone service, cell phone service, data service, TV/cable service, etc the way we pay for power and water–metered by consumption. Only this latest time, they’ve effectively tried to argue that we should be charged for the privilege of downloading content from the Internet, then content providers (like Google) should pay for the privilege of sending us that content. Kind of like income tax and sales tax… Instead, Google is working to avoid the MCI/ATT/Worldcom/Verizon/Qwest/SBC jumble of non-tech idiots completely with their own network.
[the following is jest, all you of little humor]
I know that everything I’ve learned from history, political science, and religious studies tells me that power corrupts and eventually Google will become evil, but they’re just so darn hard to hate I’d be tempted to vote Google for president–how much worse would a publicly traded company be than a privated bought and traded Congress? Think of it–we’d even be able to offer foreign naysayers the olive branch with a few shares of our government.
Who knows, we might see a form of this soon enough. Perhaps Google’s recent self-censorship deal in return for entry into the Chinese market is part of some devious scheme to create an alternative government for China. That could really be an improvement for current political and military methods for “regime change.”

Yeah, that Hugo Chavez! We had Google swap him out for a new free, Google-owned alternative power source that offers secure Voting Over IP, remote minority representation, and 180 channels of digital video, all on Google-made budget PCs distributed to the masses….

Categories: Electronics, General, Public Policy