Google is generally pretty
Google is generally pretty excited by the FCCs announcement this week, Daphne Keller, the companys senior policy counsel in Mountain View, Calif., said at the conference. It will preserve the end-to-end design principles of the Internet, she said.There is a role for government touching on the Internet, but it should be a narrowly-tailored role, Keller said.Reclassification, however, is bitterly opposed by telecommunications companies, who predict it will harm consumers, hinder investment, and cost jobs Net neutrality laws could endanger 65,000 jobs by 2011, with the total economy-wide impact growing to 15 million jobs affected by 2020 because of reduced revenue growth in the broadband sector, according to a recent report PDF sponsored by Mobile Future, which counts AT&T as a member AT&T has lobbied against Net neutrality laws.