“We believe there are at least three components of the plan that merit attention and support from policy makers and private businesses,” Schmidt and Seidenberg write. “First, the plan calls for innovating online to make advances in health-care information technology, education and job training… Second, the plan focuses on increasing access to the highest-quality broadband available… Third, the plan emphasizes the importance of making high-speed Internet connections available to all Americans.”
Schmidt and Seidenberg write, “The Internet has thrived in an environment of minimal regulation. While our two companies don’t agree on every issue, we do agree generally as a matter of policy that the framework of minimal government involvement should continue.”
“The FCC underscores the importance of creating the right climate for private investment and market-driven innovation to advance broadband,” Schmidt and Seidenberg write. “That’s the right approach and why we are encouraged to see the FCC’s plan.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Simon” for the heads up.]
Do You Trust Google?
Unfortunately for American business and its citizens, I support a policy of maximum U.S. government involvement in every fscking facet of your miserable wasted lives.
Here’s the gov’t teat, now suck ’til it’s dry, dummies (which won’t take long, if I have my way for much longer).
@brezze: I trust neither Google nor Verizon.
The 2010 Budget proposed by President Barack Obama projects significant debt increases, both in terms of dollars and relative to GDP. The debt is projected to nearly double to $20 trillion by 2015, but is expected to increase to nearly 100% of GDP by 2020 and remain at that level thereafter. These estimates assume real GDP growth (after inflation) ranging from 2.6% to 4.6% annually from 2010 through 2019, which exceeds Blue Chip consensus estimates.
The Office of Management and Budget has predicted that the gross federal debt by the end of fiscal year 2012 will be $16.3 trillion. Thus, the debt will equal 101% of gross domestic product, which represents a milestone in the U.S. economy. Looking at public debt, excludes amounts that the government in a sense just owes itself, that will be 67% of GDP by the end of fiscal year 2012.
Tommy Boy:
Without doubt.
I trust Google more days than I trust Comcast.
MDN:
Do we need to remind you of your disclaimer? :
Off-topic and posts from suspected astroturfers will be removed.
This is not a good time to loose Apple focus and misrepresent many of your best readers as dogmatic rabid mindless morons that have nothing but time on their hands and shit for brains.
Please lose the appropriate responses above.
With this lot in office you can bet on more – more – and much more intrusion into business.
Nearly two-thirds of Americans say the health care overhaul signed into law last week costs too much and expands the government’s role in health care too far, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, underscoring an uphill selling job ahead for President Obama and congressional Democrats.
Obama’s disapproval-approval rating was 47%-50% — the first time his disapproval rating has hit 50% in this poll.
By 50%-21%, they predict it will make their health care costs higher.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-03-29-health-poll_N.htm
If I recall correctly, Verizon purchased cheaper but more government involved for the lower cell phone frequency. As ATT purchased the higher cost ones that the government had the lesser involvement. Some reasonable that Verizon would be involved more than ATT. Provide my memory is correct.
MInimal government involvement is good but sometimes government has to be the adult in the room. Minimal government involvement allowed certain railroads, banks, and oil companies, then Westinghouse and RCA, then Microsoft, then banks again, to become predatory monsters, each in their day, that actually retarded progress. If you take the police off the streets, the criminals win.
breeze = typical Liberal. Free speech only applies when they agree with what’s being said. Shut down all the rest.
MDN MW: “tax.”
Fairness Doctrine:
Say what you like but if you want to spew go stick it in your mamas ear – This is a Mac News site, moron.
Typical Liberal. Free speech only applies when they agree with what’s being said. Shut down all the rest.
Dead on target.
Here we go again with the Us VS Them crapola. Maybe someday you children will learn to get along and stop pointing fingers at your fellow Americans calling them the enemy.
@breeze
“This is a Mac News site, moron.”
Apparently you haven’t been enrolled at an institution of higher learning or viewed Oscar night within the last ten years! Moron.
Steve is a progressive, burn. Michael D would suit some of your opinions much better than Steve would, please go, thanks.
When Verizon is happy with the status quo, then grab your wallet.
Why is this article even posted? It has nothing to do with Apple or any of Apple’s business interests except in a very indirect and vague way in that it involves the internet.
MDN, I’ll accept that some of the political articles you publish at least have relevance to Apple, so I’ll ignore your right-wing diatribes that accompany them, but articles like this serve NO purpose other than to start a political flame war over government intervention. Gee, I wonder what other large bill that has passed recently has all the wingnuts up in arms about government intervention…
Every irrelevant political article like this that gets published makes me lose respect for MDN, which is too bad, because as a source for mac news, they’re quite good. Just lose the political slant and BS, please. If you want to write a political blog, go start one.
Minimal government? Not with those jackasses Hussein and Pelosi in government.
I’m with breeze the off topic conversation on MDN lately has almost been intolerable.
@Jacob – Ad revenues are page-load dependent.
Not entirely sure how this is Apple related.
In case nobody understands what impossibly obscenely-high public debt means, it will mean taxes so high that legal business will yield no reward for Americans. Crime will be rampant, and only the strong and ruthless will do well. Maybe other countries have high taxes too, like Sweden at 90% I think, but I think the US won’t follow their example. The US will eventually copy Russia or China, where some central authority will do as it please to benefit itself itself completely at the citizen’s expense. Bye-bye worker or human rights, hello oppression and legal-slavery.
In case nobody understands what impossibly obscenely-high public debt means, it will mean taxes so high that legal business will yield no reward for Americans. Crime will be rampant, and only the strong and ruthless will do well. Maybe other countries have high taxes too, like Sweden at 90% I think, but I think the US won’t follow their example. The US will eventually copy Russia or China, where some central authority will do as it please to benefit itself itself completely at the citizen’s expense. Bye-bye worker or human rights, hello oppression and legal-slavery.