{"id":366,"date":"2006-02-07T11:48:51","date_gmt":"2006-02-07T19:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=364"},"modified":"2006-02-07T11:48:51","modified_gmt":"2006-02-07T19:48:51","slug":"articles-like-this-make-me-ill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/07\/articles-like-this-make-me-ill\/","title":{"rendered":"Articles like this make me ill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/02\/06\/AR2006020601624.html\">Verizon Executive Calls for End to Google&#8217;s &#8216;Free Lunch&#8217;<\/a>.  There is so much wrong with this argument that taking about it makes me want to hit someone.  A few bullet points instead:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hearing a corporation begrudge another for earning money is so hypocritical and anti-capitalist that it makes me ill<\/li>\n<li>There&#8217;s nothing &#8220;free&#8221; about the infrastructure.  Google pays some backbone for connectivity to the Internet.  Verizon&#8217;s customers pay Verizon for connectivity from their homes to that backbone.<\/li>\n<li>Verizon and Google, near as I can tell, have no legal relationship, no contract, and even from a strictly technical perspective are hardly related.<\/li>\n<li>Google is just one website.  When is Verizon going to send a bill to Lianza.org?  (insert sarcastic remark here)<\/li>\n<li>If Verizon built a billion dollar infrastructure with no plans on how to profit from it, aside from crying to congress, then they&#8217;re idiots.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s nonsense like this that&#8217;s probably causing Google to look into, effectively <a href=\"http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,9075-2023600,00.html\">building their own internet<\/a>.   In general, I hate when companies go to congress.  It usually means something bad.  In this case, I hope it&#8217;s the first step in Verizon&#8217;s road to irrelevancy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verizon Executive Calls for End to Google&#8217;s &#8216;Free Lunch&#8217;. There is so much wrong with this argument that taking about it makes me want to hit someone. A few bullet points instead: Hearing a corporation begrudge another for earning money is so hypocritical and anti-capitalist that it makes me ill There&#8217;s nothing &#8220;free&#8221; about the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libertarian","category-techie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-5U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}