Aug 23 2006

Google defends Net neutrality regulations

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A Google executive said on Tuesday that entrepreneurs creating new start-ups could be thwarted unless Congress enacts extensive laws imposing Net neutrality regulations on broadband providers.

“I’m not worried so much about Google in this regard,” David Drummond, Google’s general counsel, said at a 90-minute debate organized here by the Progress and Freedom Foundation. “I’m worried about the small innovators at the edge of the networks.”

In the mid-1990s, when company founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin were creating what would become the world’s most popular search engine, Drummond said they “didn’t think about who we had to talk to on the network to make sure users could use the Google search engine.”

“This is pre-garage,” Drummond said about the period. “These guys are in a dorm room…Are we going to go worldwide and talk to carriers everywhere to cut deals?”

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