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Sorry Google (and FB, Amazon, etc.) this doesn't actually count as taking action. Not even a single link on their home page. An obscure post on a blog won't do shit. Let's stop pretending that you want net neutrality, Google, et al. Day of action my fucking ass.

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Indeed. With prior threats I seem to remember Google having some sort of front-page search page link to the issue. Perhaps I'm not remembering correctly? Why no Google search page love?

I was at least expecting what is currently at https://duckduckgo.com/

Right, shame on Google. Even DuckDuckGo's action is extremely mild, but better than nothing at all.

Seriously! I went to Google's homepage to check how they did their Doodle for net neutrality, only to discover a Doodle entirely unrelated to the topic. I'm on a slow-ish connection, so each panel took a little while to load, and I thought that the load times were a feature of the Doodle at first. Nope. They have no mention of it today.

I agree.

> Tell everyone that you want to keep the Internet free and open.

Why should I if you're not even going to mention it on your home page? They could even make it the doodle. Or not load a doodle and say it's due to bandwidth concerns because of lack of net neutrality. They just put some random blog up that nobody is going to see. Nice work!

Yeah. Unless the CEO of the companies does not come out naked in the street shouting pro net neutrality comments, it does not count.

Amazon does have a Net Neutrality link on their front page - on the right sidebar for me at least.

That being said, it all just kind of feels underwhelming.

Are you logged in? It's not on the logged out page. Then again, Amazon probably doesn't care about the logged out page much anyway.

Google is pissed because the Internet is now under Title II making it nearly impossible for them to lay their fiber along public roads anymore. You know how to really fuck over Comcast? Allow google to bring Fiber to every major city. But they can't because regulation.

Then maybe they, or Chairman Pai or someone, can talk about how to protect net neutrality in some way other than Title II.

Title II was instituted basically as a last resort. And nobody has been coming forward saying, "Okay.. we have a plan here to undo the Title II but still preserve net neutrality."

To be fair, the previous FCC tried that. The courts struck it down and told them if they wanted to regulated ISPs in that manner they had to go Title II.

Non-Title II regulation of ISPs would require an act of Congress, a Republican-held congress with a Republican President. Good luck with that. :P

That's bullshit. Title II has little to do with Google Fiber's plans or why it's so expensive to lay fiber. Google Fiber has continued expanding after the Title II classification, though their focus has shifted to wireless technologies.

Citation? I've seen a lot of rumored reasons for why Google is slowing / stopping their fiber rollout but I've never heard this one. What part of Title II makes it difficult for them?

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