谷歌的计划让一批支持者不再抱有幻想.pdfVIP

2010 年8 月15 日星期日 谷歌的计划让一批支持者不再抱有幻想 Google Plan Disillusions Some Allies Jim Wilson/The New York Times Groups protested Google‟s recent moves that they believe will adversely affect net neutrality. By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER and MIGUEL HELFT Published: August 15, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO — On Friday at lunchtime, as Google employees dined al fresco, a hundred protesters descended on the company‟s Silicon Valley campus. A group called the Raging Grannies sang a song called “The Battle Hymn for the Internet,” and others carried signs reading, “Google is evil if the price is right.” Related  Link by Link: Internet Proposal From Google and Verizon Raises Fears for Privacy (August 16, 2010) PRNewsPhoto/Verizon Wireless From left, Andy Rubin of Google, John Stratton of Verizon Wireless and Eric Schmidt of Google. Jim Wilson/The New York Times A protest at Google in Mountain View, Calif., against a Google-Verizon proposal on Internet access. They were there to complain about what they saw as Google‟s about-face on how Internet access should be regulated and to deliver a petition with about 300,000 signatures. Several of the groups at the protest, like MoveO and Free Press, once saw Google as their top corporate ally in the fight for net neutrality — the principle that the Internet should be a level playing field, with all applications and services treated equally. But a week ago, Google stunned many of its allies by crossing the aisle and teaming up with Verizon Communications to propose that net neutrality rules should not apply to wireless access and to outline rules for the wired Internet that critics say are riddled with loopholes. Google‟s compromise with Verizon is the latest collision between idealism and pragmatism at the company, which has long promoted the idea that its mission, organizing the world‟s information, is for the public good, as underscored by its unofficial motto: “Don‟t be evil.” Some say that as Google has grown up and b