Good evening. Even as Google tonight wins some recognition from conservatives for its observing Veterans day on the search homepage, the firm is still under fire. As Machiavelli warned, become the big guy and everyone turns on you. Now it’s the big television networks going after Google. Specifically, they’re blocking Google TV from watching streams of their shows. Fox has since joined the blockade I believe.
This strikes me as a scared overreaction, and a poorly thought out one at that. As soon as Google TV’s User Agent is changed to match a desktop browser, the blockade is history and there’s nothing the networks can do about that.
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I’ve been saying it all along, that the FCC wants to dictate outcomes in its Net Neutrality power grab. They want to pick who wins and who loses in the market.
Now the FCC’s own wireless competition report said it, per Reason:
Page five of the report, for example, explains that its purpose is to provide “data that can form the basis for inquiries into whether policy levers could produce superior outcomes.”
I already warned about this report, and how the premise of wireless non-competitiveness is obviously a lie, so there’s nothing new there. They have end goals, and the means to get to them are just that. They don’t care about truth or falsehood. Just power.