Google chief executive Eric Schmidt favors net neutrality, but only to a point: While the tech player wants to make sure that telecommunications giants don’t steer Internet traffic in a way that would favor some devices or services over others, he also believes that it would be a terrible idea for the government to involve itself as a regulator of the broader Internet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The impulse is to say, “What a schmuck!” But once they’ve screwed up the internet, that will be one more once-free aspect of American life that will be enslaved forevermore.<\/p>\n
Here’s a little rule of thumb to head off objections: If an allegedly-valuable social objective cannot be effected without force, it’s crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rotarian Socialism in action: Google chief executive Eric Schmidt favors net neutrality, but only to a point: While the tech player wants to make sure that telecommunications giants don’t steer Internet traffic in a way that would favor some devices or services over others, he also believes that it would be a terrible idea for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","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":""},"categories":[251,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-big-mother","7":"category-technology","9":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18439,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18439\/overnight-news-the-tragic-futility-of-marxism-you-cant-steal-any-of-the-things-that-make-life-worth-living\/","url_meta":{"origin":10164,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: The tragic futility of Marxism: You can\u2019t steal any of the things that make life worth\u00a0living.","author":"Greg Swann","date":"September 1, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"I saw a tweet that perfectly expresses the tragic futility of Marxism, why it seeks only the impossible. 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